Category: Earth
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Picturing Earth in a New Light
A recent analysis revealed where artificial light at night has intensified, as well as where it has diminished.
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Ice Moves Out of Aniak
Spring melt along Alaska’s Kuskokwim River caused ice jams and flooding.
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America’s Emerald Isle
Beaver Island is one in a string of verdant and scenic jewels in a northern Lake Michigan archipelago.
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Australia’s Cloudy Beauty
Valley fog gathered in the Victorian Alps while an arch-shaped cloud drifted across Port Phillip Bay.
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May 2026 Satellite Puzzler
Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.
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Color Off the Mid-Atlantic Coast
Something is brewing in shallow waters offshore of Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia.
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Tracy Arm’s Post-Tsunami Landscape
A landslide-triggered tsunami stripped vegetation from the shore of the glacial fjord in summer 2025.
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A Sea of Spinning Clouds
Icy, isolated Peter I Island stirred up a show in the atmosphere off the West Antarctic coast.
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Ahuachapán and Its Restive Neighbors
From a geothermal hotspot to the one-time “Lighthouse of the Pacific,” the heat is on beneath the volcanic landscape of western El Salvador.