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East Troublesome Fire Spreads to the Rockies
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Published October 26, 2020
The blaze grew 140,000 acres in 24 hours to become the second largest fire in Colorado history.
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Iran’s Rainbow Island
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A mix of uplifting salt and other sedimentary and metamorphic rocks make for colorful landscapes in the Persian Gulf.
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Record-Setting Fires in Colorado and California
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Published October 21, 2020
The Cameron Peak and August Complex fires have punctuated a year of natural drama in the American West.
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Winter is Coming
Long blue shadows on the snow portend frigid days ahead in this far eastern corner of Siberia.
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Rebounding in Hudson Bay
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Published October 19, 2020
Raised beaches around the bay in Canada’s Ontario Province show how the landscape responded after the last ice age.
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Assessing California Fire Scars
Published October 14, 2020
Analyzing subtle differences in near-infrared and shortwave-infrared light from the landscape, scientists can provide some measure of the severity of wildfire burns.
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Romania’s Patchwork of Farm Fields
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Farms in the historic Oltenia province display a compelling array of shapes and sizes.
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The Specter of a Mega-Tsunami in Alaska
Published October 6, 2020
Landsat images helped convince researchers that a slumping mountainside overlooking Barry Arm fjord could pose a tsunami hazard.
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Sandy Plains in the Arctic
Published October 5, 2020
Unlike the vegetated tundra of its neighboring islands, Bunge Land is a barren sandy plain that also serves as a land bridge.
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Spalte Splits
Published October 1, 2020
In summer 2020, a huge piece of ice split off from the Arctic’s largest remaining ice shelf.
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Mapping Shallow Seafloors
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Published September 29, 2020
By combining satellite measurements with ship-based sonar data, researchers are working to fill the gaps in coastal ocean maps.
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Iraq Lakes Bounce Back
Published September 26, 2020
After decades of low water levels, two of Iraq’s popular lakes appear to be filling again.
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Bobcat Fire Scorches Southern California
Published September 23, 2020
The fire is among the largest Los Angeles County has ever faced.
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Record Flooding in Sudan
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Published September 17, 2020
A wetter-than-usual rainy season in Sudan has devastated communities across the country.
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Fires Char the Pantanal
Drought-parched wetlands in South America have been burning for weeks.
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Where Ice Still Flows into Glacier Bay
Published September 16, 2020
In this changing Alaskan landscape, tidewater glaciers are holding on to the bay’s West Arm.
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When Rivers are Borders
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A new dataset reveals interesting patterns about where and why rivers define national borders.
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Rising Waters on Kenya’s Great Rift Valley Lakes
Published September 7, 2020
Months of torrential rains have caused Lakes Baringo and Bogoria to swell, creating several problems for local wildlife and people.
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