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Taking a Measure of Sea Level Rise: Gravimetry
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Published November 5, 2020
Scientists measure ice’s gravitational pull on a pair of satellites, allowing them to estimate ice loss and its contribution to sea level rise.
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Could COVID-19 Have Seasons?
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Published August 4, 2020
Scientists are probing environmental data from reanalysis models in the hopes of finding answers.
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Nitrogen Dioxide Levels Rebound in China
Published May 22, 2020
With most lockdowns ending and economic activity resuming, levels of the air pollutant have returned to near normal for this time of year.
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Satellites Show a Decline in Fire in the U.S. Southeast
Published May 18, 2020
Among the byproducts of the pandemic and social distancing is a drop in forest management fires on federal lands.
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Flooding in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan
Published May 12, 2020
Water has stopped pouring from the broken wall of the Sardoba Reservoir, but many areas are still submerged.
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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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Airborne Particle Levels Plummet in Northern India
Published April 20, 2020
Satellite data show that aerosol levels have dropped significantly since the COVID-19 lockdown began.
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Nighttime Images Capture Change in China
Published March 26, 2020
Night lights not only speak to where we live, but how.
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Airborne Nitrogen Dioxide Plummets Over China
Published February 28, 2020
NO2 amounts have dropped with the coronavirus quarantine, Chinese New Year, and a related economic slowdown.
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A Transylvanian Transect for Halloween
Published October 31, 2019
ICESat-2 collected some perspective on the legendary landscape of Vlad and Dracula.
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Lights Out after Cyclone Fani
Published May 8, 2019
The powerful storm, one of the worst to hit India since 1999, knocked out electricity across the state of Odisha.
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Lights Out in Hatteras
Published July 31, 2017
A power outage brought darkness to parts of North Carolina’s Outer Banks.
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