Despite a cold snap in February, low ice cover prevailed across the lakes in winter 2020-2021. In any given year, the formation, movement, and timing…
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November 26, 2020 The modern oasis of Jubbah sits within the wind shadow of historic mountains and the basin of an ancient lakebed. Long-sustained westerly…
This image was captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on July 29, 2019. Vancouver, visible at the top of the image, lies between Burrard Inlet,…
The tiny Valentine Island, visible in the top-left of the image, measures around 1.6 km in length and around 250 m wide. The island is…
October 3, 2017. (Click image for high-resolution view.) A geologist’s dream, Gros Morne National Park is one of the few places where you can set…
December 24, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) took this photograph of numerous gold prospecting pits in…
In the image pictured here, captured on June 14, 2019, high concentrations of algae can be seen around 130 km off Hokkaido Island, the second…
January 5, 2021. (Click image for wider, high-resolution view.) A bird-loving farmer living near Florida’s Pelican Island helped spur the creation of a national system…
Lake Titicaca imaged by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Lake Titicaca is a designated Ramsar Site of International Importance, as the waters of Titicaca are essential…
(Click image for full view.) Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Sardinia, the second-largest island in the…
When Michael King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in a two-story house in Atlanta, the city had 715,000 residents. (His father changed his…
Novel methods for culturing previously “unculturable” bacteria. Credit: Molina-Menor, Gimeno-Valero, Peretó and Porcar The culture-dependent study allowed to isolate a surprisingly large number of diverse…
This image, also featured on the Earth from Space video program, was captured on January 12, 2020 by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission – a two-satellite…
Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The heavy snowfall that hit Spain a few days ago still…
Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on January 11, 2021, at…
The lack of snow cover in December left Japan’s iconic mountain looking a little different than usual. Even as record snowfall has clobbered Japan’s western…
January 11, 2020 Meteorologists declared it the largest snowfall in the region since 1971. Between January 7–9, 2021, a moist, low-pressure weather system over the…
While there are efforts to reinforce its beaches and marshes, some of Barataria Bay is slowly slipping away. Sandwiched between the Mississippi River and Bayou…
January 5, 2021 In spring and summer, conditions are often just right for populations of the plant-like organisms explode into enormous blooms. The Goldilocks zone…
August 2, 2019. Click image for high-resolution view. Rising above the clouds and the Sea of Okhotsk, the uninhabited Atlasov Island appears as a distinctive…