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Alaska’s Iconic Columbia Glacier Still Retreats
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Published September 10, 2024
The glacier’s Main Branch pulled away from a stabilizing rocky outcrop, while melting along the West Branch exposed “new gravelly real estate.”
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Smoke Fills South American Skies
Published September 6, 2024
Drought has amplified fire activity across the continent, contributing to exceptionally high carbon emissions in Bolivia and Brazil.
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Lake Erie Blooms
Published September 5, 2024
Algal communities flourish in Lake Erie’s western basin each summer. Scientists are looking to new NASA technology to better track them from space.
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Bustling Beijing
Published September 9, 2024
China’s capital city boasts a diversity of structures, from its historic city center to the concentric roads and high-speed railway that surround it.
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Southeast China Braces for Yagi
After hitting the Philippines, the powerful storm is churning toward landfall near China’s Hainan Island.
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Floods Swamp Sudan
Published September 4, 2024
Flash flooding has inundated villages, swamped farmland, and damaged infrastructure.
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Wildland Fires Scorch Idaho Wilderness
Published September 3, 2024
Burning for weeks, the Wapiti and Middle Fork Complex fires have charred tens of thousands of acres.
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Mountains and Coastal Living Along the Gulf of Policastro
Published September 1, 2024
Smooth beaches meet rugged alpine terrain along this section of coastline in southwestern Italy.
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California’s Park Fire Spread Fast and Hot
Published August 31, 2024
An array of satellite sensors observed the long-duration, episodic spread of the state’s historic fire.
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A Series of Rare Disturbances in the Stratosphere
The polar vortex elongated and weakened over Antarctica, causing rare warming events.
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Laboring at Big Bend Tunnel
Published September 2, 2024
The setting for John Henry’s legendary contest with a steam-powered drill may have been this tunnel through Big Bend Mountain in West Virginia.
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Typhoon Shanshan Pummels Japan
Published August 29, 2024
The powerful storm triggered landslides, power outages, and flooding in southern parts of the country.
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