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Satellites Size Up Bubbles of Methane in Lake Ice
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Published July 14, 2020
Synthetic Aperture Radar is offering scientists a new way to measure how much of the potent greenhouse gas is bubbling up from frozen Arctic lakes.
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Fueled by the Nile
Published July 8, 2020
Irrigation from Lake Nasser, one of the world’s largest man-made lakes, has increased the amount of arable land and crop production in Egypt.
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Nishinoshima Belches Ash and Lava
Published July 6, 2020
A young volcanic island in the western Pacific Ocean has been going through some growing pains.
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Landslide Blocks Rio Colca
Published July 3, 2020
In Peru, a landslide damaged farmland and stopped the flow of an important local river.
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Scouting Watering Holes from Space
Published July 2, 2020
Satellites may make it easier for nomadic herders in Senegal to survive the lean season.
Channeling a Bloom
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Published June 26, 2020
Unusually clear skies and persistent, unseasonable heat may have set the stage for large and persistent blooms of phytoplankton in the waters around England.
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Cuba’s Gulf of Guacanayabo
Sediments flowing into the bay from the Río Cauto have built up an impressive delta and even helped bury a reef.
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