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Breakup Along the Mackenzie River
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Published June 8, 2020
Each spring, the Canadian Arctic is the site of a fierce battle between water and ice.
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Ice Arch Persists Despite Warm Arctic
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Published June 3, 2020
This natural gatekeeper, which prevents sea ice from exiting the Arctic Ocean and drifting southward into Baffin Bay, was still intact in late May 2020.
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Tropical Cyclone Amphan
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Published May 19, 2020
Millions of people prepared to evacuate as the storm approached eastern India and Bangladesh.
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Deforestation in Argentina’s Gran Chaco
Published May 20, 2020
South America’s second-largest forest has been experiencing rapid tree losses in recent decades.
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Still Sandy After All These Years
Published May 14, 2020
In 2002, Earth Observatory published one of the site’s most popular images: the Great Bahama Bank. Eighteen years later, the science has advanced but the sand has not.
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Dam Failure in Uzbekistan
Published May 8, 2020
A collapse of the Sardoba Reservoir’s earth-filled dam led to flooding that extended into Kazakhstan.
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New Zealand Browned by Drought
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Published May 7, 2020
North Island vegetation shows signs of stress during one the region’s most severe droughts on record.
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Spring Greening in the Taklamakan Desert
Published May 5, 2020
Even in China’s largest, driest, and hottest desert, vegetation sprouts in the spring.
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Mapping Moose Populations in Russia
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Published April 27, 2020
Researchers using vegetation data to explain moose population dynamics run into a hidden variable and a possible signature of history.
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