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Western Australia’s Capital City
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Published December 1, 2024
Perth, the only city along the country’s western coastline with more than 1 million people, displays widespread urban infrastructure alongside the Swan and Canning rivers.
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Satellites Reveal a Greener Antarctic Peninsula
Published December 2, 2024
Scientists are beginning to unravel what comes next, after the ice moves out and vegetation moves in.
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Saturated Northern Australia
Published November 30, 2024
After two particularly wet years, large ephemeral lakes in the Barkly Tableland region were still flooded as the 2024–2025 rainy season got underway.
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Iran’s Lut Desert
Published November 29, 2024
Windswept rocks and sand take many forms in this arid salt desert.
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Lava Nears Iceland’s Blue Lagoon
Published November 26, 2024
A tongue of lava from the eruption flowed into the parking lot of the geothermal spa.
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Human Fingerprints on an Ancient Landscape
The Cretaceous sandstone of Libya’s Messak Settafet plateau shows signs of a modern oil field and Stone Age quarries and hunting sites.
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Windy City of Lights
Published November 24, 2024
Orange, yellow, and white lights span Chicago at night, illuminating its gridded downtown and tracing its sinuous rivers and parks.
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New View of the “City Under the Ice”
Published November 25, 2024
A novel radar image reveals structural elements of Camp Century, an abandoned U.S. military base buried within the Greenland Ice Sheet.
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Global Freshwater Abruptly Declines
Published November 23, 2024
The amount of freshwater stored on land and underground has plummeted in the past decade, which might indicate that Earth’s continents have entered a persistently drier phase.
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A Hazy, Foggy Day in Italy’s Po Valley
Published November 22, 2024
Research suggests that airborne particles called aerosols contribute to longer-lasting outbreaks of fog.
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Extratropical Cyclone Whips Over the Pacific Northwest
Published November 20, 2024
Damaging winds from the strong storm knocked out power for thousands of people in Washington state.
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Charting the Exceptional, Unexpected Heat of 2023 and 2024
Published November 19, 2024
Global temperatures have soared in recent years and climate scientists are trying to understand why.
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