Northwest Greenland is featured in this icy image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission. Sea ice and icebergs can be seen in the Nares Strait…
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Normal and malformed spores from East Greenland. Credit: John Marshall Researchers at the University of Southampton have shown that an extinction event 360 million years…
[embedded content]Earthquakes that occur more than 300 kilometers below the Earth are poorly understood. UC Davis geophysicist Magali Billen modeled stresses in a sinking tectonic…
Original artwork depicting the moment the asteroid struck in present-day Mexico. Credit: Chase Stone New simulations from Imperial College London have revealed the asteroid that…
Life in the deep sea (>200m). Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute The world’s deep oceans are warming at a slower rate than the surface, but it’s…
Researchers have developed a deep-learning model that maps fuel moisture levels in fine detail across 12 western states, opening a door for better fire predictions.…
Picture of the Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala. Credit: Zorn et al. 2020, Nature – Scientific Reports: DOI 10.1038/s41586-020-2212-1 Researchers create novel 3D models with…
This is an artistic life reconstruction of Nannopterygius. Credit: Andrey-Atuchin The skeleton of an extinct ‘fish lizard’ locked in a glass case over 16ft from…
A specific area in the Tarapacá Region, in northern Chile, where some of the largest caliche deposits can be found, is featured in this image…
Microorganisms in green colonize gypsum rock to extract water from it. Johns Hopkins and UCI researchers ran lab experiments to understand the mechanisms of survival…
Nitrogen Dioxide Levels in China February 10 – May 12, 2020. In early February 2020, scientists using NASA and European satellites detected a significant reduction…
June 3, 2019 – May 20, 2020 On May 17, 2020, heavy rain began pouring over the Tri-Cities region of central Michigan and, after two…
Antelope in South Africa. Pinnacle Point, a series of archaeological sites that overlook a now submerged section of South Africa’s coastline and one of the…
Shute Creek Gas Facility in Wyoming, USA, captures CO2 from gas streams. Credit: ExxonMobil The capture and storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) underground is one…
Dr. Matt Davey sampling snow algae at Lagoon Island, Antarctica. Credit: Sarah Vincent Scientists have created the first-ever large-scale map of microscopic algae as they…
The magnetic field is thought to be largely generated by an ocean of superheated, swirling liquid iron that makes up Earth’s the outer core 3000…
(Click image for full view.) This is an artist impression of Titanichthys. Credit: Mark Witton (used with permission) Scientists from the University of Bristol and…
Hurricane Harvey over North America in 2017 from GOES-16. GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite. Credit: UW-Madison SSEC In almost every region of the…
Denman Glacier, February 26 – 28, 2020. Using a combination of satellite sensors, scientists recently found that Denman Glacier has been retreating both above and…
As the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives across the globe, Earth-observing satellites take the pulse of our planet from space. While the global lockdown has…