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Monday, May 8th, 2023

Deadly Blooms in the Gulf of Mannar 

For the last four years, water in the Gulf of Mannar has turned bright green in September and October as the population of a single-celled phytoplankton called Noctiluca scintillans soared. These large blooms of the marine dinoflagellates...

Monday, April 24th, 2023

The Himalayas and Mount Everest in Nepal 

Clouds gather over Nepal near Mount Everest (center) in this April 13, 2023, photograph from the International Space Station. This image was taken as the station orbited 263 miles above the Indian subcontinent.  In addition to photography,...

Tuesday, April 11th, 2023

Seoul Seen from Space 

South Korea’s capital city, Seoul, and surroundings are featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on Feb. 21, 2023.  The Han River runs through the city, and to the right of the image it can...

Tuesday, March 28th, 2023

A Dusty Day in Northeastern China 

A comma-shaped low-pressure system that pushed across Mongolia and China unleashed a major dust storm in late-March 2023. A tight pressure gradient fueled the strong winds that lifted sand and dust from the Gobi Desert as the system moved into eastern China on March...

Saturday, March 11th, 2023

Investigating Land Subsidence in Japan 

Land subsidence causes Earth’s surface to sink, flooding coastal areas and damaging infrastructure. It can be monitored using observation wells, global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), and interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR). Given its accuracy and applicability, researchers...

Tuesday, February 28th, 2023

Dark Nights in Antakya

On Feb. 6, 2023, magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 earthquakes hit southern Türkiye and northwestern Syria, causing significant losses of life and destruction to infrastructure. Antakya, the capital of Türkiye’s Hatay Province, was hit especially hard. Data from...

Saturday, February 11th, 2023

How Nepal Regenerated Its Forests

In the 1970s, Nepal was facing an environmental crisis. Forests in Nepal’s hillsides were being degraded due to livestock grazing and fuelwood harvesting, which led to increased flooding and landslides. Without large-scale reforestation programs, a 1979 World...

Monday, January 30th, 2023

Synchronized LiDAR and Bathymetric Surveying Methods to Study a Floating Solar Farm in Israel

The synchronization was performed upon a request from the Israeli drone service provider ERELIS to conduct a pilot project of reservoir surveying with a UAV for ETZ HADEKEL Ltd. in Northern Israel. The surface of the reservoir...

Tuesday, January 17th, 2023

Kilauea Erupts Again

On Jan. 5, 2023, Kilauea—Hawaii’s youngest and most active volcano—began erupting once again. Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory saw a glow in summit webcam images indicating that the eruption had resumed. They detected...

Monday, December 5th, 2022

Java’s Mount Semeru Erupts Again

One year after Indonesia’s Mount Semeru unleashed a destructive eruption, the tallest and most active volcano on Java erupted again in early December 2022. Late on Dec. 3, 2022, a series of explosions from the summit crater...

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