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…
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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…
After two years of quiet, Kilauea, Hawaii’s youngest and most active volcano, is erupting again. In the early days of the volcano’s latest eruption, water…
November 12, 2020. Click image for high-resolution view. In traditional Vietnamese culture, the dragon is a powerful and sacred mythical creature. According to legend, Vietnam…
December 13, 2020 When British explorer Ernest Shackleton and the crew of HMS Endurance lost their ship to crushing pack ice in the Weddell Sea…
Popularized by the studies and writings of Charles Darwin, the Galápagos Islands gained fame for their abundance of endemic plants and animals—species found nowhere else…
Overview of the study area and the schematic illustration of interaction of fault motion and the seafloor subsidence. Credit: University of Tsukuba University of Tsukuba…
October 25, 2020 An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) took this photograph of a 30-kilometer (20-mile) long lagoon on the eastern shore of…