September 23, 2022. 1¹has turned bright green in September and October as the population of a single-celled phytoplankton called Noctiluca scintillans soared. These large blooms of the marine dinoflagellates glow a spectacular shade of...
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April 20, 2023. For several weeks in April 2023, swirls of green and turquoise grew more vibrant in the waters off the Mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. Some...
May 15, 2023. A springtime heatwave has made large swaths of western North America feel like the dog days of summer. In mid-May 2023, western Washington and Oregon, along with...
April 30, 2023. Fire season is well underway in western Mexico. According to Mexico’s National Forestry Commission, as of April 27, the state of Jalisco has tallied 491 forest fires...
August 20, 2022. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of an island group in the Gulf of California near the southeastern edge of Baja California...
April 19, 2023 to April 27, 2023. The construction of Glen Canyon Dam in the 1960s brought great changes to sandbars downstream along the Colorado River. With the dam trapping most...
Sam Illingworth.Apr 28, 2023. Lurking in the depths,a ghostly presenceunseen,unknownthirsts for life.Regulation,an illusion,as it fallsthrough wellsand pipesto touch our liveswith fouland tainted hands.Pushing at its rotten doorwe peer into ripplesof...
April 8, 2011. For the past few decades, scientists have been observing natural ocean fertilization events—episodes when plumes of volcanic ash, glacial flour, wildfire soot, and desert dust blow...
April 6, 2023. Deep, meandering canyons cut through the Colorado Plateau in southeastern Utah in this photograph, taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station on April 6,...