Land surface temperature is how hot the “surface” of the Earth would feel to the touch in a particular location. From a satellite’s point of view, the “surface” is whatever it sees when it looks ...
There are not many places in the open ocean that get their own special name as a “sea.” Most seas are what we call marginal seas – offshoots of the major ocean basins. The Sargasso Sea, as a vast ...
Every month on Earth Matters, we offer a puzzling satellite image. The September 2025 puzzler is shown above. Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us where it is, what we are looking ...
Every month on Earth Matters, we offer a puzzling satellite image. The September 2025 puzzler is shown above. Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us where it is, what we are looking ...
As category 4 Super Typhoon Usagi churned toward Taiwan on September 19, 2013, a satellite orbiting hundreds of miles above used a radar instrument to map the storm’s inner structure. The instrument ...
World Of Change Arctic Sea Ice Antarctic Sea Ice Columbia Glacier, Alaska Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Global Temperatures Water Level in Lake Powell Yellow River Delta Coastline Change Sprawling ...
August 2016 was the warmest August in 136 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).
Recent years have seen significant developments in satellites for oceanographers. The European Space Agency launched the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission and NASA launched the Aquarius ...
Maria Elena Paredes, Coordinator of the Community Vigilance Committee for the Ashéninka community of Sawawo Hito 40, discusses maps of Upper Amazon during a breakout group (Photo: Reynaldo Vela, USAID ...
On May 28, 2025, the peaceful town of Blatten, Switzerland, was even more quiet than usual. Almost all of the 300 residents had been evacuated due to local geologists and glaciologists fearing the ...
On May 28, 2025, the peaceful town of Blatten, Switzerland, was even more quiet than usual. Almost all of the 300 residents had been evacuated due to local geologists and glaciologists fearing the ...
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