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Winds Trigger Pond Growth
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Published July 6, 2017
A new study shows that winds are responsible for the widespread growth of ponds in three watersheds along the Mississippi River.
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Tracking Forest Change in Canada
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Published June 28, 2017
Researchers analyzed 25 years of Landsat data to establish where forests had burned or been cut.
Tracking the Hide-and-Seek Game Between Beaches and Tides
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Published June 16, 2017
A new technique allowed Australian Scientists to map the intertidal zone around their entire coast.
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Tasman Glacier Retreats
Published March 26, 2017
New Zealand’s longest glacier has shrunk in recent decades. Meanwhile, the lake at its terminus has grown.
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Soil Composition Across the U.S.
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Published January 9, 2016
The proportion of sand, silt, and clay contained in soil across the U.S. affects the amount of water it can hold.
Obersulzbach Glacier Plus Four
Published July 3, 2015
The retreat of one of Austria’s largest glaciers has stranded some of its tributaries, now classified as separate glaciers.
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Decline of West Antarctic Glaciers Appears Irreversible
Published May 16, 2014
The Amundsen Sea segment of the ice sheet has begun a melting process that will result in its loss, possibly within the next few hundred years.
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Building in Colorado’s Fire Zone, Part 2
Published November 14, 2013
How development patterns helped make the Black Forest fire so damaging.
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Building in Colorado’s Fire Zone, Part 1
Published November 8, 2013
Development on the edge of the wilderness is increasing the risk of destructive wildfires in Colorado.
Ice Loss on Puncak Jaya
Published September 1, 2012
Rare tropical glaciers in Indonesia are losing ice fast and could disappear entirely within decades. Researchers want to know why.
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Growth of Central Pivot Irrigation, Kansas
Published July 23, 2012
These images from 1972 and 2011 show the transformation of agriculture near Garden City.
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Border Between Mexico and Guatemala
Published July 19, 2012
In 1988, a Landsat image of the Mexico-Guatemala border showed clear-cut forest in Mexico and untouched trees in Guatemala. This image had a profound impact on two nations and influenced the establishment of Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve.
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Aral Sea
Published July 18, 2012
The Aral Sea in Central Asia began disappearing in the 1960s because of the diversion of its two feeder rivers for agriculture.
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MLK Day Becomes Law
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Published May 17, 2012
In 1983 President Ronald Reagan signed into law Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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Landsat 4 Launches
On July 16, 1982 Landsat 4 was successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California.
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Crop Circles in the Desert
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Published May 12, 2012
Over the course of 25 years, farms have sprouted in the Arabian Desert, fueled by deep and old groundwater.
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The Dead Sea
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Published April 6, 2012
The lake between Israel and Jordan provides a bounty of salt and of history.
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Landsat in Memory of the World Register
Published November 24, 2011
What does Landsat have in common with the Gutenberg Bible, Tolstoy’s personal library, and the Book of Kells?
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Morganza Floodway, 1973
Published May 14, 2011
Observations by Landsat 1 from 1973 show the Morganza Floodway after its first and only opening in 57 years.
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Aquaculture and Salt Production near Bo Hai, China
Published February 8, 2009
China’s Bo Hai coast is one example of the rapid expansion of aquaculture in the late twentieth century.
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Yellow River Delta, China
Published January 4, 2009
China’s Yellow River, or Huang He, travels through soft plateaus of silt, picking up a massive sediment load on its journey. The sediment carried by the river has reshaped China’s coast, adding several hundred square kilometers of land.
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