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California’s Rising and Sinking Coast
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Published October 23, 2020
Millions of people in the state live in low-lying coastal areas where land subsidence is exacerbating the risks of sea level rise.
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Scientists Map Beirut Blast Damage
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Published August 11, 2020
Radar imagery of ground surface changes could help with efforts at disaster relief and recovery after the explosion.
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Torrential Rains Flood Indonesia
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Published January 7, 2020
In January 2020, Jakarta experienced its worst rainfall in more than a decade.
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Drought then Deluge Turned a Stable Landslide into Disaster
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Published February 7, 2019
“Stable landslide” sounds like a contradiction in terms, but there are indeed places on Earth where land has been creeping downhill slowly and harmlessly for as long as a century.
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Florence Inundates the Carolinas
Published September 18, 2018
As the Carolinas flood from Hurricane Florence, NASA is providing valuable information for rescue and recovery efforts.
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A Crack of Light in the Polar Dark
Published June 29, 2017
Even in the dark, there are satellite instruments that allow scientists to “see” the rift growing across Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf.
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San Joaquin Valley is Still Sinking
Published March 5, 2017
Groundwater pumping in California has been causing land subsidence.
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New Studies Get to the Bottom of Antarctic Melting
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Published October 30, 2016
Researchers from NASA and the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have gained an unprecedented view of ice melting on the floating undersides of glaciers. In the process, they detected the fastest ongoing rates of glacier retreat ever observed in West Antarctica.
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A Second Massive Ice Avalanche in Tibet
Published October 21, 2016
In a rare event, two glaciers just a few kilometers apart in the Aru Range have collapsed in spectacular fashion.
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Mapping Earth Motion from the Illapel Earthquake
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Published October 1, 2015
Scientists have projected the size and location of changes in Earth’s surface following the September 2015 earthquake and tsunami off Chile.
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Sensing How Much the Earth Moved in Nepal
Published May 14, 2015
Using satellite radar sensors, scientists have been able to detect the rising and falling of the landscape in the Himalayas caused by the Gorkha earthquake.
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Thwaites Glacier from Sentinel-1A
Published April 22, 2014
Icebergs surround the edge of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier in one of the first images to come from the European Space Agency’s new Sentinel-1A satellite.
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