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Still Sandy After All These Years
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Published May 8, 2020
In 2002, Earth Observatory published one of the site’s most popular images: the Great Bahama Bank. Eighteen years later, the science has advanced but the sand has not.
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Saving Straddie’s Sand
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Published May 6, 2020
After seven decades, sand mining operations have stopped in Australia’s North Stradbroke Island.
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Admiralty Island: “Fortress of the Bears”
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Published April 23, 2020
Brown bears abound on this Alaskan island, parts of which have seen both widespread clear-cutting and forest regrowth in recent decades.
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Rivers Are Getting Less Icy
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Published February 18, 2020
The window of time available to make and use ice roads is closing.
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Spotting the Spotted Owl: 30 Years of Forest Disturbance
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Published December 18, 2019
Wildfires make a significant mark on the bird’s nesting and roosting habitat.
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Spotting the Spotted Owl: 30 Years of Habitat Change
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Published December 17, 2019
Maps of forest cover type show where the composition and structure of the forest is sufficient for the threatened species to nest and roost.
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Patchwork of Corn in the Snow
Published December 6, 2019
In the wake of a potent winter storm in late November in the U.S. Midwest, an unusual pattern turned up in satellite imagery.
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Malaspina on the Move
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Published September 6, 2019
More than 30 years of ice velocity data are helping scientists tease out how mountain glaciers respond to climate change.
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Green Space is Good for Mental Health
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Published July 15, 2019
New study uses satellite and demographic data to show how the prolonged presence of green space is important for a healthy society.
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Atmospheric River Swells Terrestrial Rivers
Published July 5, 2019
In late June 2019, a potent atmospheric river event carried soaking rain into southern Chile, dropping nearly a month’s worth of precipitation in just 48 hours.
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Mapping the Land Between the Tides
Published July 1, 2019
Harnessing 30 years of Landsat data, researchers have created the first three-dimensional model of Australia’s entire coastline.
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Lusi in the Sea with Deltas
Published June 21, 2019
Downstream of the Lusi mud flow, mangrove forests are expanding onto new land and shrimp farmers are adjusting to a muddier reality.
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Alaska in Flux: Wildfire Recovery Paints Alaska Green
Published February 19, 2019
A large and lasting footprint on the state’s landscape comes from wildfire.
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Ice Loss Slows Down Asian Glaciers
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Published December 13, 2018
Melting and thinning of high-mountain glaciers makes them flow less due to gravity.
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Black Belt Prairie
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Published June 20, 2018
The crescent-shaped area of fertile, cultivated land stretches through parts of Mississippi and Alabama.
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Glacier Retreat at Cook Ice Cap
Published April 26, 2018
The glaciers in the Kerguelen Islands are shrinking as snowfall declines.
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Peru’s Newest National Park
Published March 20, 2018
Yaguas National Park protects a huge expanse of intact forests.
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The Spread of Mangroves in Senegal
After decades of decline, satellites show mangrove forests are covering more area and growing more densely in this West African country.
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Reshaping the Xingu River
Published October 6, 2017
Construction of the Belo Monte Dam has transformed a major tributary of the Amazon River in northern Brazil.
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The Global Spread of Bare Ground
Published September 27, 2017
China and the United States lost more vegetation—mainly to spreading urban and suburban areas, new transportation networks, and energy production—than any other countries between 2000 and 2012.
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