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Deforestation in Argentina’s Gran Chaco
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Published May 20, 2020
South America’s second-largest forest has been experiencing rapid tree losses in recent decades.
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Still Sandy After All These Years
Published May 14, 2020
In 2002, Earth Observatory published one of the site’s most popular images: the Great Bahama Bank. Eighteen years later, the science has advanced but the sand has not.
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Dam Failure in Uzbekistan
Published May 8, 2020
A collapse of the Sardoba Reservoir’s earth-filled dam led to flooding that extended into Kazakhstan.
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New Zealand Browned by Drought
Published May 7, 2020
North Island vegetation shows signs of stress during one the region’s most severe droughts on record.
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Spring Greening in the Taklamakan Desert
Published May 5, 2020
Even in China’s largest, driest, and hottest desert, vegetation sprouts in the spring.
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