Start Date: End Date: Published Date Data Date
Spotting the Rise of Swine Lagoons
720 x 647 PNG
Published June 13, 2022
Researchers used satellite images to chronicle the historical expansion of eastern North Carolina’s swine farming industry.
Related images:
720 x 480 JPEG
4989 x 4459 7 MB - JPEG
720 x 480 PNG
2160 x 1440 538 KB - PNG
1440 x 1293 733 KB - PNG
Melting Glacier Exposes Ichthyosaur Fossils
720 x 587 JPEG
Published June 3, 2022
Retreat of Patagonia’s Tyndall Glacier continues to uncover a prehistoric graveyard of marine reptiles.
2414 x 2414 2 MB - JPEG
2414 x 2414 1 MB Bytes - JPEG
5681 x 5681 12 MB - JPEG
720 x 540 JPEG
Keeping a Satellite Eye on GERD
Published April 20, 2022
Remote sensing could help experts monitor Nile hydrology as a new reservoir is filled.
6702 x 6758 6 MB - JPEG
6702 x 6758 4 MB - JPEG
3105 x 3017 3 MB - JPEG
A Grand New Dam on the Nile
Published April 19, 2022
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will boost electricity production and development in Ethiopia, but could have less desirable consequences for other users of Nile River water.
720 x 600 JPEG
2832 x 2360 1 MB Bytes - JPEG
2832 x 2360 2 MB - JPEG
3991 x 2376 4 MB - JPEG
Northern Glaciers are Retreating from the Water
720 x 557 PNG
Published April 8, 2022
Most marine-terminating glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere are shrinking; some have completely left the water.
6184 x 4782 12 MB - PNG
3594 x 4802 5 MB - JPEG
Crop Expansion Accelerates in Africa
720 x 765 JPEG
Published March 28, 2022
As the population grew, the conversion of natural landscapes into farmland has become common in parts of the continent.
2261 x 2198 2 MB - JPEG
The Spread of Soy in South America
Published March 30, 2022
Grasslands, savannas, and dry forests have become popular places to grow soy.
2129 x 2070 1 MB Bytes - JPEG
Global Croplands Expand
720 x 436 JPEG
Published March 24, 2022
Over the past two decades, global croplands expanded by 9 percent, with differing expressions on different continents.
3225 x 1680 2 MB - JPEG
720 x 665 JPEG
1973 x 1644 2 MB - JPEG
A Human Fingerprint on the Pantanal Inferno
3844 x 5617 4 MB - JPEG
Published February 3, 2022
Heat and drought exacerbated fire season in 2020, but cattle grazing and other human activities also primed the region to burn.
2417 x 2014 2 MB - JPEG
720 x 800 JPEG
4766 x 3968 5 MB - JPEG
2406 x 2005 6 MB - JPEG
Everest-Area Plant Life Spreads
720 x 960 JPEG
Published January 12, 2022
Increasing vegetation in the Himalaya may have implications for water supplies.
1440 x 720 235 KB - JPEG
720 x 480 JPG
Reindeer as Ecosystem Engineers?
720 x 784 JPEG
Published December 23, 2021
Herding could help curb Arctic greening and shrubification caused by climate change.
720 x 900 JPEG
1794 x 2242 3 MB - JPEG
2421 x 2448 3 MB - JPEG