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Mapping Shallow Seafloors
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Published September 28, 2020
By combining satellite measurements with ship-based sonar data, researchers are working to fill the gaps in coastal ocean maps.
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Iraq Lakes Bounce Back
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Published September 25, 2020
After decades of low water levels, two of Iraq’s popular lakes appear to be filling again.
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Bobcat Fire Scorches Southern California
Published September 23, 2020
The fire is among the largest Los Angeles County has ever faced.
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Record Flooding in Sudan
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Published September 17, 2020
A wetter-than-usual rainy season in Sudan has devastated communities across the country.
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Fires Char the Pantanal
Drought-parched wetlands in South America have been burning for weeks.
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Where Ice Still Flows into Glacier Bay
Published September 10, 2020
In this changing Alaskan landscape, tidewater glaciers are holding on to the bay’s West Arm.
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When Rivers are Borders
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Published September 4, 2020
A new dataset reveals interesting patterns about where and why rivers define national borders.
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Rising Waters on Kenya’s Great Rift Valley Lakes
Months of torrential rains have caused Lakes Baringo and Bogoria to swell, creating several problems for local wildlife and people.
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How Rivers Shape States
Many state and local boundaries around the world—including many in the United States—are the product of rivers.
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California Continues to Burn
Published September 3, 2020
By early September 2020, more than a quarter million acres had burned within the August Complex fire in Mendocino National Forest.
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A Global Water Hyacinth Invasion
Published September 1, 2020
A new study found that the abundance of these floating plants has increased due to urbanization.
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Flooding, Blackouts in the Wake of Laura
Published August 31, 2020
The storm surge and rainfall from the category 4 hurricane inundated parts of the Louisiana coast, while winds wiped out electric power to many.
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La Malinche’s Barrancas
Published August 28, 2020
The network of narrow stream valleys that flow off this towering volcano in central Mexico are sometimes used as roads—or convenient places to set up soccer pitches or sift for building materials.
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Inlet’s Iceberg Maker Is Nearly Gone
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Published August 27, 2020
Retreating glaciers have changed how visitors experience Glacier Bay National Park in southeast Alaska.
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