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Bobcat Fire Scorches Southern California
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Published September 23, 2020
The fire is among the largest Los Angeles County has ever faced.
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Warm Winds Trigger Melting in Antarctica
Published April 11, 2019
Unusual late-season events could produce long-term changes to the snowpack on the Larsen C ice shelf.
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Drought then Deluge Turned a Stable Landslide into Disaster
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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Living the Mars Life on Mauna Loa
Published August 29, 2018
On months-long Mars analog missions in Hawaii, donning mock space suits to explore lava flows and other geological formations is often a high point.
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NASA Mapping Hurricane Damage to Everglades
Published April 19, 2018
A research team flew over the Everglades and found that an estimated 60 percent of their mangrove study areas were heavily or severely damaged by hurricanes in 2017.
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Hidden Under New England’s Green Canopy
Published August 16, 2017
In Connecticut’s forests, lidar has helped uncover a bit of early U.S. history.
New Insight from Old Snapshots of Greenland
Published December 16, 2014
Historic photographs show glacial retreat since the early 1900s.
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A Changed Coastline in Jersey
Published November 3, 2012
Hurricane Sandy cut a new channel and wiped out houses in the town of Mantoloking, New Jersey.
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Hurricane Irene Breaches Outer Banks
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Published August 30, 2011
Acquired August 28, 2011, this aerial photo shows damage to Highway 12 on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Highway breaches stranded at least 2,500 residents of Hatteras Island.
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Sediment in Motion at Ocean City
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Published August 4, 2011
Jetties near Ocean City, Maryland, have interrupted natural coastal processes such as longshore transport, altering the shape of the coastline.
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Northwest Greenland Canyons
Published May 1, 2011
Acquired March 29, 2011, this photograph shows canyons along the coast of northwestern Greenland.
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Fresh Craters on the Moon and Earth
Published August 13, 2009
Throughout their histories, both the Moon and Earth have been bombarded by meteorites and asteroids, which often leave behind dramatic impact craters.
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Mars and Earth: Columnar Jointing
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Published June 10, 2009
Although Mars is in many ways quite different from Earth—smaller, colder, drier, and hostile to life—the geology of the two worlds is sometimes quite similar. Columnar jointing—a distinctive pattern of hexagonal cracks—is visible in rocks on both planets.
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