Male reindeer walking on a national road in Jämtland, Sweden. Credit: Marianne Stoessel/Stockholm University Reindeer herding has a long history in northern Norway, Sweden, and…
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New Zealand’s Mount Ruapehu. September 23, 2021. A lake at the summit of the volcano provides the main clues to what is happening below. While…
China’s largest freshwater lake drained by prolonged heat and drought. Between the winter and summer seasons, Poyang Lake, in China’s Jiangxi Province, routinely fluctuates in…
January 10, 2022. Click the image for a wider, high-resolution view. Hot springs and fumaroles dot this misnamed geothermal field that hosts the world’s largest…
As a megadrought persists across the US southwest, Utah’s Great Salt Lake dropped to its lowest recorded water level. Utah’s Great Salt Lake dropped to…
July 1, 2022 Satellite images show smoke from hundreds of wildland fires darkening Alaskan skies. Alaskan summers are usually described as brief and mild. In…
July 6, 2022 In early July 2022, a combination of dry weather, lightning, and unusual heat fueled hundreds of wildland fires in northern Canada. 136…
Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, part of the Canary Islands lying in the North Atlantic Ocean, are featured in this false-color image captured on September 24, 2021,…
This map shows the distribution of summer and winter crops in Ukraine as of June 13, 2022. It also shows where farmers were operating freely…
(Click image for full view.) The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission captured this satellite view of Patagonia at the southern end of South America and the Falkland…
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is visible just below the center of this Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite image, along the Dnieper River in north-central Ukraine. The city…
Lake Balkhash, the largest lake in Central Asia, is featured in this false-color image captured on November 29, 2021, by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Credit:…
Yellowstone National Park has experienced historic flooding, with rivers cresting at heights not seen in 100 years. Snowmelt and heavy rain caused historically high water…
Part of the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, which lies along the coast of southeast Alaska, is featured in this image captured by the…
This radar image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, shows us the only city-island-nation – Singapore – and one of the busiest ports in the…
May 29, 2022 Bezymianny, a stratovolcano in Russia’s Far East, ejected a towering plume that streaked the snow with dark ash. A stratovolcano, also known…
Part of Puglia, or Apulia, a region in southern Italy, is featured in this image captured on January 19, 2022, by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.…
Capitol Reef National Park in south-central Utah. May 2, 2022. In the Utah desert, the red rocks, cliffs, and canyons of this nautically named national…
This satellite image, which features the German city of Bonn, was captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. With its high-resolution optical camera, it can image…
May 16, 2022 At least eight major events in Iraq have darkened skies and sickened people in the past six weeks. Iraq and other countries…