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Siberian River Has Turned Red Before, Satellites Show
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Published September 15, 2016
Landsat images show that waterways near Noril’sk blushed red long before they achieved internet virality in 2016.
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Heat Fuels Fire at Fort McMurray
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Published May 7, 2016
Unusually warm temperatures were part of the fire weather that spurred flames to spread through Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada.
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Wildfire Spreads in Fort McMurray
Published May 5, 2016
Wildfire continued to spread through Fort McMurray in Canada’s Northern Alberta region.
Paving Washington
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Published March 29, 2016
Since 1984, the Capital Beltway has gotten wider and much busier as suburbs have sprung up along it.
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Animating the “Karakoram Anomaly”
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Published January 7, 2016
With satellite eyes, the complex motion of glaciers becomes apparent.
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Zachariæ Isstrøm Glacier, Greenland
Published December 4, 2015
Starting in 2012, a large glacier in northeast Greenland broke loose and entered a phase of accelerated retreat.
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Is That a Forest? That Depends on How You Define It
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Published November 17, 2015
Differences in how international and national institutions classify forests can lead to large discrepancies in measurements of land cover.
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