Rat hole mining, notorious for its detrimental impact on the environment and worker safety, has faced scrutiny in India. However, recent events in the Uttarkashi tunnel complex shed light...
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Map of February, 2000. These maps show the ‘metabolism” of Earth’s plants and trees. Net primary productivity is the difference between the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed during photosynthesis...
Antarctic sea ice reached its lowest maximum extent on record on Sept. 10 at a time when the ice cover should have been growing at a much faster pace...
In summer, the fjords around Greenland are commonly littered with angular pieces of ice that have sloughed off from the island’s numerous outlet glaciers. But on August 3, 2023,...
Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent on Sept. 19, 2023, making it the sixth-lowest year in the satellite record, according to researchers at NASA and the...
September 8, 2023 to September 13, 2023. On September 10, 2023, a potent storm brought heavy rain to northeastern Libya, causing significant loss of life and devastation to cities...
This September, after traveling billions of miles through our solar system, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will cruise past Earth with an extraordinary delivery. As it passes, it will release a...
September 16, 2023. For much of summer 2023, fires burned through boreal forests in northern British Columbia and Alberta, and in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories....
September 25, 2023. Lake Winnipeg, the world’s 10th largest freshwater lake by surface area, has experienced algae blooms at a regular occurrence at least since the 1990s. A bloom...
June 17, 2023. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this nadir (straight down) photograph of Abu Dhabi while orbiting above the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the...