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The Best Places to View the Total Solar Eclipse
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Published March 22, 2024
It’s not a forecast, but this map of historical cloud cover will tell you how often skies on April 8 have been cloudy in the past.
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Fires in the Appalachians
Smoke billowed from multiple wildfires in the eastern U.S., fueled by dry and windy weather.
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Quiet Night Over Eastern Canada
Published March 24, 2024
Lights, snow, and clouds brighten this wintery scene of Earth’s northern latitudes.
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Snowstorm Coats the Rockies
Published March 21, 2024
A potent storm pushed snowpack levels above normal across Colorado.
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Shedding Light on a Very Dark River
Recent data from the previously unstudied Ruki River in the Congo Basin shows that it carries a heavy load of carbon in its dark water.
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An Outpost for Evolution at Aldabra Atoll
Published March 20, 2024
The large coral islands off the African coast are home to giant tortoises and unique birdlife.
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The Arctic is Getting Rainier
Published March 19, 2024
The Arctic and North Atlantic oceans have seen an increasing number of days when precipitation falls as rain, not snow.
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Heat Stress on the Great Barrier Reef
Published March 18, 2024
Weeks of warmer-than-average ocean temperatures caused extensive bleaching in the world’s largest coral reef system.
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An Underwater Plume From Kavachi
Published March 15, 2024
A Landsat satellite acquired this image of discolored water drifting from the active underwater volcano.
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Siachen Glacier
Published March 17, 2024
An astronaut’s photograph reveals the myriad features of a remote glacier high in the Karakoram mountains of central Asia.
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Antarctic Sea Ice at Near-Historic Lows
Sea ice coverage reached its seasonal minimum in February 2024, tying with 2022 for the second-lowest extent in the satellite record.
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Taking a Bite Out of Pi
Published March 14, 2024
A cycle of rapid advance and retreat at Sortebræ, a glacier in eastern Greenland, built pi-shaped tongues of ice before they later retreated.
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