7.5 Magnitude Earthquake Lifts Parts of Japan Up to 13 Feet
Some parts of the peninsula rose up to 4 meters (13 feet), shifting the position of coastlines and leaving some ports dry. The first day…
Some parts of the peninsula rose up to 4 meters (13 feet), shifting the position of coastlines and leaving some ports dry. The first day…
The remote and arid Kufrah district in Libya lies on top of one of the largest irrigation projects in the world. The remote Kufrah district…
Resting atop a shingled sandstone landscape, the Norwegian glacier has been in decline since the late 1990s. Ålfotbreen glacier rests on ledges of sandstone among…
The latest round of eruptions on the Reykjanes peninsula destroyed homes in the town of Grindavík. Volcanic activity reawakened on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern…
Cool, upwelling water supports an array of marine life and draws the occasional filmmaker to the Bonney Coast region. When satellites passed over South Australia’s…
Features in this northern British Columbia volcanic area draw their names from a few of our favorite wintry things. Pack some winter footwear and a…
People have long noticed that the waters around Cabo Frio are unusually cool. When European explorers first surveyed the coastline of what is now the…
Stark contrasts between light and dark indicate the interface between urban and natural areas in the Greek capital. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station…
In ancient Greek and Roman times, the lush emerald isle of Ireland was called out for its long frosty seasons. The term Hibernophile may conjure…
The Alaskan stratovolcano has not come to life in thousands of years. Frosty is a stratovolcano located in Alaska’s Aleutian Island chain. Although the volcano…
The name “icicle” frequently shows up in and around the Bavarian-inspired town of Leavenworth in Washington state. Winter-like names are abundant in and around Leavenworth,…
Outbursts from Glacial Lake Missoula carved the Channeled Scablands in Washington state. In southeastern Washington state, neat grids of farmland stretch for miles across gently…
The heart of the Nueva Vizcaya Province on Luzon, the largest and most populated island of the Philippines, shows up brightly in this Copernicus Sentinel-2…
Two years after the eruption of Cumbre Vieja in the Canary Islands, some roads have been reconstructed. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS)…
Fluid dynamics put on a spectacular show around Norway’s remote Bear Island. Theodore von Kármán, a Hungarian-American physicist, is well-known within NASA for helping found…
The fiery and icy upper reaches of the Antarctic volcano pierced through a canopy of clouds. On a late spring day in 2023, the summit…
An unexpected color palette reveals the features of an iconic glacial landscape in southeastern Alaska. To human eyes, glacial ice typically looks white tinged with…
Ice cores and satellite images are helping preserve the history of a disappearing ice cap in the Peruvian Andes. The Quelccaya Ice Cap rests on…