Red Sea Rainforests: Coral Reef Ecosystems Thrive off the Coast of Saudi Arabia
Looking down from the International Space Station (ISS), an astronaut captured this view of the northwest coastline of Saudi Arabia, where up to 260 coral reef…
Looking down from the International Space Station (ISS), an astronaut captured this view of the northwest coastline of Saudi Arabia, where up to 260 coral reef…
Ahead of the International Day of Forests, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of the Amazon rainforest in the Amazonas – the largest…
Fluctuations in the carbon-rich biomass held within the world’s forests can contribute to, or slow, climate change. A series of new maps of above ground…
The distribution of vegetation is routinely used to classify climate regions worldwide, yet whether these regions are relevant to other organisms is unknown. Umeå researchers…
Using NASA satellite images and machine learning, researchers with The University of Texas at Austin have mapped changes in the landscape of northwestern Belize over…
Ol Doinyo Lengai—known to the local Maasai people as the “Mountain of God”—is a stratovolcano in Tanzania with unique geological characteristics. This photograph, taken by…
Several years after scientists discovered what was considered the oldest crater a meteorite made on the planet, another team found it’s actually the result of…
UMass Amherst researchers used remote sensing to quantify the previously underestimated erosion. More than one-third of the Corn Belt in the Midwest – nearly 30…
New research conducted at the UNESCO World Heritage listed ‘Plain of Jars’ in Laos has established the stone jars were likely placed in their final…
The Strait of Gibraltar is featured in this false-color image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. The Strait of Gibraltar connects the Mediterranean Sea with…
Astronaut Andrew Morgan used a fisheye lens to capture the intersection of two continents. Astronaut Andrew Morgan shot this wide-angle photograph from the central Cupola…
Despite a cold snap in February, low ice cover prevailed across the lakes in winter 2020-2021. In any given year, the formation, movement, and timing…
Two astronauts. Two clear days. Two gorgeous views around the roof of the world. Astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) shot these photographs of…
The modern oasis of Jubbah sits within the wind shadow of historic mountains and the basin of an ancient lakebed. Long-sustained westerly winds shaped the…
Vancouver, visible at the top of the image, lies between the Burrard Inlet, an arm of the Strait of Georgia, to the north, and the…
A range of unusual plants and wildlife lives in the Harenna Forest, but they face pressure from development. There are few places in Ethiopia—or the…
The torrent of debris from a mountain in the Himalayas devastated remote valleys in Uttarakhand, India. Sheer, glacier-covered ridges separated by gorges soar over the…
Researchers are puzzling over a distinctive striping pattern in the Central Siberian Plateau. Earth science satellites are generally used to observe certain features of the…