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Outburst at Desolation Lake
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Published November 30, 2020
A flood in a glacial lake behind Lituya Glacier surprised an unsuspecting fisherman and reworked a young delta in Alaska.
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Sea Level Watcher Takes Flight
Published November 24, 2020
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich will extend a nearly 30-year continuous dataset on sea surface height.
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Lituya Bay’s Apocalyptic Wave
Published November 20, 2020
One of the tallest tsunami waves known to science slammed this Alaskan bay in 1958.
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Thomsen River Estuary, Banks Island
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Sea ice and waterways along the north side of Canada’s high-Arctic island reveal compelling patterns when viewed from above.
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Taking a Measure of Sea Level Rise: Land Motion
Published November 5, 2020
Earth’s surface may seem motionless most of the time, but an array of measurements show that natural and human-caused processes cause coastal land to rise and fall.
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Taking a Measure of Sea Level Rise: Ice Height
Scientists project ice losses from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets will play a large part in sea level rise in the upcoming century.
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Snowy and Icy Peaks with Very Different Origins
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Published October 25, 2020
Researchers find that ice caps on the mountains of Pluto are made of methane, but develop through an opposite process from that on Earth.
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Mining for Iron at Mount Whaleback
Published October 17, 2020
The site in Western Australia holds one of the country’s largest and oldest iron ore mines.
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The Specter of a Mega-Tsunami in Alaska
Published October 5, 2020
Landsat images helped convince researchers that a slumping mountainside overlooking Barry Arm fjord could pose a tsunami hazard.
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Cracking Icy Secrets of New Penguin Colonies
Published September 24, 2020
Populations of gentoo penguins are growing, and remote sensing data are helping scientists figure out why.
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Inlet’s Iceberg Maker Is Nearly Gone
Published August 31, 2020
Retreating glaciers have changed how visitors experience Glacier Bay National Park in southeast Alaska.
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How Birds Respond to Extreme Weather
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Published August 19, 2020
Extreme weather events such as heat waves and drought affect the presence of certain bird species.
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Predicting Cholera Risk in Yemen
Published August 12, 2020
Researchers are using satellite and ground data to forecast the risk of cholera in the country, which has consistently experienced cases since 2017.
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Jez like Mars
Published July 30, 2020
Though located a world away, Lake Salda, Turkey, shares similar mineralogy as Jezero Crater on Mars.
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Checking on Chikungunya
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Published July 28, 2020
Researchers can predict potential outbreaks of the mosquito-borne virus months in advance by using satellite data.
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Comet NEOWISE Brightens the Night
Published July 18, 2020
In July 2020, sky gazers on Earth and on the International Space Station had a front row seat to one of the brightest comets in decades.
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Methane Emissions Continue to Rise
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Published July 15, 2020
Rapid growth from 2008–2017 built upon the rise in the atmospheric concentration of the gas that has been happening for more than a century.
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Satellites Size Up Bubbles of Methane in Lake Ice
Published July 14, 2020
Synthetic Aperture Radar is offering scientists a new way to measure how much of the potent greenhouse gas is bubbling up from frozen Arctic lakes.
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Another Lively Season of Night-Shining Clouds
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Published July 9, 2020
Extremely cold and wet conditions in the mesosphere have led to abundant noctilucent clouds.
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Scouting Watering Holes from Space
Published July 2, 2020
Satellites may make it easier for nomadic herders in Senegal to survive the lean season.
Johns Hopkins Glacier
Published June 30, 2020
While most glaciers in southeast Alaska are losing an astounding amount of ice, this glacier has been relatively stable.
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Space Station Sails Across the Sun
Published June 27, 2020
A NASA photographer captured the ISS as it passed directly between the Sun and Earth.
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Norwegian Fjord Turns Turquoise
Published June 10, 2020
In May 2020, a vivid phytoplankton bloom colored the surface waters of the country’s second-longest fjord.
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Mapping a Slow-Motion Landslide
Published June 5, 2020
Through the study of an unusual, long-lasting slide, has developed a new technique to make prediction easier and more accurate.
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Temperatures Predict Bird Biodiversity
Published June 4, 2020
Small birds prefer winter landscapes that have larger thermal differences, likely because they offer more opportunities to find refuge from the cold.
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Astronauts Launch from American Soil
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Published June 2, 2020
A commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft has safely delivered two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.
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A New Lake—Water Not Lava—On Kilauea
Published May 8, 2020
After its lava lake drained and the floor dropped, water has been pooling up in the bottom of Halema‘uma‘u crater for several months.
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