June 16, 2024. Since May 2024, satellite images have hinted at a phytoplankton bloom developing off the coast of southeast Greenland. But a near-constant stream of clouds prevented optical...
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December 26, 2023. The North York Moors in Yorkshire, England, is a place where time seems to stand still. Wide-open undulating hills, interspersed with 18th-century farmhouses, store thousands of...
June 15 to 25, 2024. It’s only the beginning of the summer season in the Northern Hemisphere, but Earth is already roasting. Scientists from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space...
2002 to 2023.. Record snowfall in recent years has not been enough to offset long-term drying conditions and increasing groundwater demands in the U.S. Southwest, according to a new...
April 17, 2022. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photo of the Makran coast in southeastern Iran. Here, a prominent headland protects the small fishing ports...
December 31, 2023. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photo during a clear night over Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. In this wintertime scene, snowy, moonlit mountains and...
June 11, 2024. A plume of moisture from the western Caribbean delivered heavy rainfall to parts of southern Florida, particularly along its Gulf Coast, in June 2024. Intense precipitation...
May 20, 2022. . Beginning in summer 2023, one of the most severe droughts that Mexico has faced in more than a decade began to bake the North American...
June 4, 2024. Floating fragments of sea ice spun into intricate patterns as ocean currents carried them south along Greenland’s east coast in spring 2024. The MODIS (Moderate Resolution...
May 2, 2024. Unusually early and intense blazes spread over Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands in late May and early June 2024. Lack of wet-season rainfall dried vegetation and helped the...