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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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Thwaites Glacier Transformed
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Published February 5, 2020
The amount of ice flowing from the Antarctic glacier has doubled in the span of three decades, and scientists think it could undergo even more dramatic changes in the near future.
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Tracking Amazon Deforestation from Above
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Published December 19, 2019
Satellites have played a key role in monitoring and reducing the rate of deforestation in the rainforest.
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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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Great Fox is Disappearing
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Published November 26, 2019
Rising waters are swallowing up another island in Chesapeake Bay.
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Mapping the Amazon
Published September 26, 2019
In spite of its clear significance to the planet, the expansive region is a complex and challenging place for remote sensing scientists to study.
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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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A New Patch of Green in Brazil
Published July 19, 2019
A twenty-year effort to plant millions of trees in Minas Gerais is visible to Landsat.
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Green Space is Good for Mental Health
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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The Urbanization of Ulaanbaatar
Published June 3, 2019
The Mongolian capital is spreading outward as migrants from the countryside fill neighborhoods on the fringes of the city.
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