From 2003 to 2020. Explosive growth of phytoplankton populations can produce vibrant blue, green, or red displays, covering thousands of square kilometers of the ocean. While phytoplankton play a crucial role...
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By, Sam Illingworth. In harvest’s graspwhere seasons danceand futures twirl,a thief in the nighttakes what monthshad given –through heatand windand drought.A rapid searthat tearsEarth’s quilt,starving stalksand pulling seedswith weeping...
August 16, 2002 to August 16, 2022. Petermann Glacier is one of Greenland’s largest marine-terminating glaciers. Like most glaciers that discharge ice into the ocean, Petermann periodically sheds large...
September 18, 1986 to September 29, 2022. Every fall, millions of people flock to the Shuangtaizi Estuary (also called the Liao River Estuary) in northeastern China to marvel at...
By Sam Illingworth. In the land of cloudsthe roof of the worldbegins to creak,its glistening canvasstretched thin beneaththis heaven’s vault.Mirrored lakes shimmerlike sapphires,caught beneath anocean of grasslandswhose waves of jaderun...
May 5 to 22. 2023. For remote sensing scientists who track the movement of smoke plumes, May 2023 has been a wild, memorable month due to extreme fire activity...
July 2, 2022 To December 27, 2022. On the eastern shore of Hokkaido, a hook-shaped spit juts into the Nemuro Strait. The 28-kilometer-long (17-mile-long) feature, Notsuke Peninsula, is one of...
Manufactured and tested by ASIPP in China, the Static Magnetic Field Test Facility was shipped to ITER and reassembled last year in a plant building on site. Its central...
May 10, 2022 to May 11, 2023. Since the start of the hydrological year, on October 1, 2022, Spain received 28 percent less rain than expected by mid-May 2023,...
May 2, 2023. Bursts of phytoplankton are appearing in oceans, seas, gulfs, canals—and increasingly in lakes. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite captured this image of an algal bloom on Lake Villarrica in...