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Mount St. Helens
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Published May 15, 2020
In May 1980, a satellite watched the mountain violently erupt; satellites over the next forty years watched it recover.
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Saving Straddie’s Sand
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Published May 6, 2020
After seven decades, sand mining operations have stopped in Australia’s North Stradbroke Island.
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New Ground for an Ancient City
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Published April 1, 2020
The fast-growing city of Cairo has spilled onto desert plains well beyond the lush floodplain of the Nile River.
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Rivers Are Getting Less Icy
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Published February 18, 2020
The window of time available to make and use ice roads is closing.
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How Cancún Grew into a Major Resort
Published January 23, 2020
Once one of the poorest regions of Mexico, Cancún is now a bustling tourist city with millions of visitors each year.
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Tracking Amazon Deforestation from Above
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Published December 19, 2019
Satellites have played a key role in monitoring and reducing the rate of deforestation in the rainforest.
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Spotting the Spotted Owl: 30 Years of Forest Disturbance
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Published December 18, 2019
Wildfires make a significant mark on the bird’s nesting and roosting habitat.
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Spotting the Spotted Owl: 30 Years of Habitat Change
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Published December 17, 2019
Maps of forest cover type show where the composition and structure of the forest is sufficient for the threatened species to nest and roost.
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Assateague on the Move
Published October 8, 2019
Assateague, Chincoteague, and Wallops provide a rare example of overlapping barrier islands. All of them are constantly in motion.
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Ice Could Crumble from Planpincieux Glacier
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Published October 1, 2019
The fast-changing glacier is threatening a popular hiking area in the western Alps.
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Malaspina on the Move
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Published September 6, 2019
More than 30 years of ice velocity data are helping scientists tease out how mountain glaciers respond to climate change.
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Okjökull Remembered
Published August 8, 2019
The glacier atop Iceland’s Ok volcano was declared dead in 2014. Satellite images show the latter stages of its decline.
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Green Space is Good for Mental Health
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Published July 15, 2019
New study uses satellite and demographic data to show how the prolonged presence of green space is important for a healthy society.
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Mapping the Land Between the Tides
Published July 1, 2019
Harnessing 30 years of Landsat data, researchers have created the first three-dimensional model of Australia’s entire coastline.
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A Bit Less Excelsior
Published May 21, 2019
Over the past two decades, an Alaskan glacier has melted into a lake more than five times the size of Central Park.
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Länta Glacier: Small and Getting Smaller
Published March 29, 2019
Like many glaciers around the world, this glacier in the Swiss Alps is shrinking.
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Mining Peru’s Cerro de Pasco
Published March 15, 2019
The city’s economic engine is also a worrisome source of pollution.
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Living on Lava
Published February 22, 2019
As Medina has grown during the past three decades, parts of the Saudi city are built atop relatively young lava flows.
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Countdown to Calving at Brunt Ice Shelf
Published February 19, 2019
Cracks growing across the ice shelf are poised to release an iceberg about twice size of New York City.
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Ice Loss Slows Down Asian Glaciers
Published December 13, 2018
Melting and thinning of high-mountain glaciers makes them flow less due to gravity.
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Urban Growth of New Delhi
Published September 27, 2018
Croplands and grasslands around New Delhi are being converted into city structures to create one of the fastest urban expansions in the world.
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Decades of Growth at Port of Busan
Published September 5, 2018
The South Korean port is among the busiest in the world.
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Last Glacier Standing in Venezuela
Published August 27, 2018
Humboldt Glacier in the remote tropical Andes is going, going, and nearly gone.
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