Western edge of the Sahara Desert captured by NASA’s Terra satellite on December 14, 2022. The conveyor belt helps transport an essential agricultural fertilizer from…
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Location of identified multi-species ecological linkages and wilderness areas and ungulate migratory routes that intersect linkages between Yellowstone and Glacier park assemblages in the northern…
Landsat 9 Satellite image of Mount Semeru in Indonesia on December 4, 2022. Intense explosions at the summit sent avalanches of ash and mud racing…
A Barren Boundary: Despite a largely successful harvest overall, some crops along the front line went unharvested. A satellite-based analysis indicates that nearly 27 million…
Wetlands of Adair Bay captured in astronaut photograph from the International Space Station on August 1, 2022. The estuary system marks the transition between the…
NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP satellite Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) images of Hawaii on October 29 and November 28, 2022. During Mauna Loa’s first eruption…
Photograph taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station on December 25, 2019, shows dark surfaces in the hyper-arid eastern Sahara Desert in Sudan. (Click…
The Mississippi River, one of the longest rivers in North America, is featured in this multi-temporal radar image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission. Credit:…
June 17 – November 8, 2021 Mount Terror might sound like a place to avoid. But this Antarctic volcano is not as terrifying as its…
The Adirondack Mountains in northeast New York on October 8, 2022. Vibrant leaf color in northeast New York has not disappointed leaf-peepers. Dry conditions in…
Drought and water shortages in 2022 have meant rice growers have only planted half as much of the grain as usual in the Sacramento Valley,…
In this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, captured on August 6, 2022, the lake’s emerald green color is likely due to the presence of phytoplankton. Streaks in…
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…
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,…