In the context of trade-offs between land use and biodiversity, LMU geographers have simulated land saving potentials for agriculture. With rising global demand for agricultural…
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Part of Lake Nasser, one of the largest artificial lakes in the world, is featured in this false-color image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.…
Twilight is a long affair at research station Concordia, situated just a few 1000 km from the South Pole. The Sun disappears completely behind the…
Map showing Balkanatolia 40 million years ago and at the present day. Balkanatolia is a forgotten low-lying continent wedged between Europe, Africa, and Asia, already…
Russia and Ukraine: What is at stake in this crisis? Northwestern experts in history, international relations and political science explain. As Russian forces close in…
This false-color image, captured on February 12, 2022, by Landsat 9, has been processed using the satellite’s near-infrared channel. This channel is frequently used to…
October 8, 2021 The 50,000-year-old crater is relatively young, and only the second discovered in China. Despite China’s large land area, only one impact crater—the…
May 25, 2021 While in orbit over Egypt, an astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS) captured a photograph of this heart-shaped basin bordering the…
The plume from Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai behaved like a mega-thunderstorm that rose 58 kilometers (38 miles) into the atmosphere. When an underwater volcano erupted near…
February 7, 2022 Landsat 9 completed its own pass last week in time for the big game. Passes will be flying today in Los Angeles…
200 million years from now Mogadishu and Mumbai will be neighbours along a large mountain range. Credit: Douwe van Hinsbergen Every geography schoolbook has them:…
February 1, 2022 Sporting events in Beijing are clustered in three zones, each with distinct geography. Beijing, the host city for the 2022 Olympic Winter…
This image of Batura Glacier, in the upper Hunza Valley, in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, was captured on August 13, 2021, by the Copernicus…
Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020-21), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over northwest Lesotho – a…
Using data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P mission, the image shows the huge plume of sulfur dioxide on January 18, 2022, over Australia, more than 7000…
January 15, 2022 Several Earth-observing satellites collected data during and after the potent blast. One of the most potent volcanic eruptions in decades has obliterated…
Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite image of Kangerlussuaq Glacier, Greenland This false-color image shows visible changes on the ground and sea surface between three different acquisition dates.…
January 7, 2022 The glow of a volcanic eruption in the Galápagos Islands was captured by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the…
February 5, 2021 The Libyan Desert is often cited as a Mars analogue. The vast Libyan Desert stretches toward the Mediterranean Sea, which itself fades…
2016 It is the land of reindeer husbandry—one of the few places on Earth where deer have been domesticated. It is the home of Europe’s…