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2020 Hurricanes Damage Vulnerable Mangroves
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Published January 13, 2021
Central America experienced one of its most intense hurricane seasons in years, leading to widespread degradation to coastal environments.
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Elephant Island
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Published December 25, 2020
The mountainous icy terrain was a challenging but necessary refuge for the crew of HMS Endurance.
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A Lagoon in the Desert
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Published December 26, 2020
A popular place for sandboarding, Huacachina is the only natural desert oasis in South America.
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Outburst at Desolation Lake
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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