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Hokkaido Agriculture, Northern Japan
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Published May 19, 2014
Planted in Japan for at least the last four centuries, greenbelts protect coastlines from storms and sand movement; they are increasingly providing recreation areas as well.
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Melting Ice on Lake Baikal
Published May 12, 2014
The world’s deepest lake was shedding some of its ice cover when the space station passed over in April 2014.
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Ice in the Sea of Okhotsk
Published April 28, 2014
Off the coast of northern Japan and eastern Russia, a swirl of currents push ice around in a clash of winter and summer currents.
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Arkansas River Meanders
Published April 21, 2014
Near the city of Little Rock, the river has meandered for decades, leaving its marks across the landscape.
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Grand Canyon Geology Lessons on View
Published April 14, 2014
You can almost sense the invisible tectonic forces within the Earth when you look at this geological icon from space.
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Port Aransas and the Intracoastal Waterway, Texas
Published April 7, 2014
Sitting inside barrier islands of the eastern and southern United States—and cutting through them in points—the waterway provides a safer passage for shipping commerce.
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Kavir Desert, Iran
Published March 31, 2014
The lack of soil and vegetation allows parallel lines and sweeping curves of geological structure to appear quite clearly.
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Green Bay, Wisconsin
Published March 24, 2014
Snow and ice cover the landscape around this basin of Lake Michigan.
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Sensing Lightning from the Space Station
Published March 23, 2014
Bolts light up Earth’s atmosphere 4 million times a day. Scientists hope to observe a few.
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Bowknot Bend
Published March 17, 2014
The Green River in eastern Utah once carved soft sediment into meanders on a floodplain. Then the land and mountains rose and the river dug deep, preserving those meanders in stone.
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Ice stringers, Lake Michigan
Published March 10, 2014
Southwesterly winds pull strands of land-fast ice out into the lake from Washington Island and Detroit Island.
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Southern Patagonia Ice Field
Published March 3, 2014
Straddling the southern Andes Mountains in Chile and Argentina, these glaciers have thinned significantly in the past four decades.
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