August 13, 2020 While passing over Oregon, an astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS) shot this photograph of Newberry Volcano in the eastern Cascade…
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August 15, 2020. (Click image for wide, high-resolution image.) If you accidentally stumbled upon the town of Huacachina, you might think it is a mirage.…
December 19 – 21, 2020 As winter moisture rolls in from the Pacific Ocean and makes snow on the Sierra Nevada range, it also can…
Kevin Gardner, an earth sciences doctoral student at the University of Oregon, stands in a riverbed in the Palo Verde Mountains, about nine miles southeast…
A view of the Riverside Fire from La Dee Flats on the Mt. Hood National Forest on Sept. 9, 2020. The fire encompassed over 138,000…
October 27, 2020. Click image for high-resolution view. The Sea of Galilee in northern Israel—one of the lowest-lying bodies of water in the world—has long…
This satellite image of Lapland combines three radar acquisitions from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission to show changes in land conditions over time. The first image…
The jagged terrain of Greenland’s mountains is protecting some of the island’s outlet glaciers from warm coastal waters, according to a team of researchers that…
July 1, 2020 When he first encountered Lituya Bay in 1786, the French explorer Jean-François de Galaup La Pérouse was intrigued by an odd line…
The first large-scale study of the risks that countries face from dependence on water, energy, and land resources has found that globalization may be decreasing,…
Hooker Lake, New Zealand (2016). Credit: Jenna Sutherland Meltwater lakes that form at glacier margins cause ice to recede much further and faster compared to…
July 5, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) While passing over northern Utah, an astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS) captured this photograph of…
Image captured on August 26, 2019, by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO…
The proximity of hot springs to early settlements have led researchers to wonder if early humans used hot springs as a cooking resource long before…
Primary forests are crucial for biodiversity conservation and store high quantities of carbon in biomass, therefore helping to mitigate climate change. Credit: Tzvetan Zlatanov Europe’s…
This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission on March 3, 2019, shows the Amazon River meandering through one of the most vital ecosystems in…
Cross-section view of Austrocedrus chilensis wood in the Andes of northern Patagonia, Argentina.This species is abundant in the xeric forest-steppe ecotone, where periodic massive mortality…
The covid19scan web application screenshot taken on August 30, 2020. Credit: Covid19scan web/Hohl Hotspots have trended towards smaller but more numerous clusters since the pandemic…
Researchers link end of Green Sahara with Southeast Asia megadrought. Physical evidence found in caves in Laos helps tell a story about a connection between…
May 6, 2020. (Click image for full view.) In 2001, Dubai started construction on three large artificial islands in the Persian Gulf shaped like palm…