Tuesday, March 24th, 2026
Tropical Cyclone Narelle traced a long path across the northern edge of Australia, bringing damaging winds and rain to areas already saturated with abundant precipitation. The system made separate landfalls in three different states and territories between...
Tuesday, March 10th, 2026
Iceberg A-23A has had a more eventful run than most of the large Antarctic icebergs that have calved from the continent’s ice shelves in recent decades. Over its winding, 40-plus-year journey, the “megaberg”spent decades grounded in the Weddell Sea before drifting north, twirling in...
Monday, February 23rd, 2026
Using a decade of satellite radar observations from Copernicus Sentinel-1, researchers mapped surface elevation changes across 40 major river deltas worldwide. The study found that more than half of the deltas studied are subsiding at rates faster than...
Monday, February 9th, 2026
NOAA’s National Ocean Service announced a new hydrographic survey project to map and characterize more than 30,000 square nautical miles of federal waters off American Samoa. This project is part of the Department of Commerce's implementation of...
Monday, January 26th, 2026
Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula has been among the areas hit hard by cold and snowy weather in December 2025 and January 2026. More than 2 meters (7 feet) of snow fell in the first two weeks of January, following 3.7...
Monday, January 12th, 2026
Winter weather took hold across the Indo-Gangetic Plain in early January 2026, bringing dense fog and cold temperatures to much of the flat, fertile lands that span from Pakistan and northern India to Bangladesh. This image shows...
Tuesday, December 16th, 2025
Every year for decades, long rivers of smoke and haze have spread across the Indo-Gangetic Plain in northern India from October to December. That's when farmers in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and other states burn off plant "stubble" after...
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025
Puttalam district in North Western Sri Lanka is currently facing severe flooding, landslides and rockfalls, caused by heavy monsoon rains across the region. The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured an image over the region on Nov. 30, 2025...
Tuesday, November 11th, 2025
CE Info Systems Limited (MapmyIndia) won a contract by the Survey of India to create a unified digital infrastructure for aggregating, harmonizing and disseminating authentic geospatial data and services. This indigenous technology-based platform will support various sectors,...
Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
Located in the South-Central Pacific, the Cook Islands is comprised of 15 islands surrounded by more than 770,000 square miles of ocean, the vast majority of which remain unmapped and unexplored. During the expedition, mapping, telepresence and...
