Exacerbated by El Niño, heavy rains in spring 2024 caused severe flooding in Tanzania’s Rufiji…
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The Klamath River dam removal, spanning from 2023 to 2024, marks the largest project of…
Heavy rains in spring 2024 brought temporary relief to Spain’s drought-stricken Doñana National Park, boosting…
Agricultural plots are carpeted in yellow when rapeseed or canola plants bloom. Green agricultural fields…
Every spring, satellites observe massive plumes of dust streaming from the Gobi Desert over East…
Over the past two and a half decades, NASA Earth Observatory has published more than…
New analysis of a round depression in the salty plains of the Kutch Basin revealed…
In the country’s southeast, towering table-top mountains known as tepuis host unique species of flora…
One of the driest growing seasons in decades has decimated crops and left millions hungry.…
A powerful volcanic eruption lofted ash high into the atmosphere and spread tephra and other…
A powerful storm system battered major cities in the Arabian Peninsula. This slow-moving storm system…
This reddish “burning mountain” of granite is the highest point in Namibia. This photograph, taken…
Researchers used satellite data to calculate the depth of water in this transient freshwater body.…
Astronauts and photographers captured unforgettable views of Earth and the Sun as the Moon’s shadow…
Images spanning four decades show how buildings and blacktop have spread into Ireland’s countryside. Dublin…
Satellites gathered striking views of the Moon’s shadow from above as observers on the ground…
Landsat satellites have begun regularly acquiring images of ice at the poles during the winter,…
The Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica has been showing signs of instability, with significant ice…