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Shrinking Shoreline of the Salton Sea
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Published October 9, 2015
California’s largest lake is shrinking, and an unusual combination of conservation, drought, and water laws may someday take it away.
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The World’s Largest Urban Area
Published September 15, 2015
Rapid growth in several cities along the Pearl River Delta has made a Chinese megacity larger and more populous than any other urban area in the world.
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The Greening of Al Ain
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Published September 6, 2015
Several new farms, parks, gardens, and tree-planting projects have made Al Ain one of the greenest cities in the Middle East.
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Signs of Katrina Linger in the Marshes
Published August 28, 2015
Ten years after the storm made landfall, a record of Katrina’s fury remains in the marshes surrounding Delacroix.
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Establishing El Gouna
Published August 19, 2015
This Red Sea resort town in northern Egypt has dramatically reshaped the coastline.
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Changing Forest Cover Since the Soviet Era
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Published July 16, 2015
Political change in Eastern Europe and Russia has left its mark on forests in the region.
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A Satellite View of River Width
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Published July 9, 2015
As they prepare for a satellite that will measure the height and areal extent of rivers in unprecedented detail, hydrologists have released a better map of North American river widths.
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A Lot of Data, A Lot of Possibilities
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Published April 16, 2015
50 trillion pixels of Landsat data give researchers a lot of opportunities to look at Earth processes on scales from days to decades.
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