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Over 200 subglacial lakes have been discovered underneath the ice of Antarctica, some of which are marked with white and black with dots on this map.

Fathoming Antarctica

Lakes hidden under the Antarctic ice sheet may play a role in its stability.
Feature Article
Dec. 28, 2020
Photograph of Mount McKinley

Drying in Denali

Scientists search for the causes of shrinking Alaskan wetlands.
Feature Article
Dec. 27, 2020
Hurricane Katrina's eyewall swirls in a photograph by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) P-3 hurricane hunter pilot on August 28, 2005, a day before the powerful storm slammed into the United States Gulf Coast.

Data More Powerful than Hurricanes

New ways of looking at data help storm forecasters and emergency managers solve challenges and prevent hurricane losses.
Feature Article
Dec. 27, 2020
Algae clogs a lagoon in Toluca Valley, Mexico. Factories and homes that deplete the valley’s aquifers dump their wastewater here. (Courtesy P. Castellazzi)

Closed Season

In Mexico’s escalating water crisis, a view from the sky provides answers.
Feature Article
Dec. 27, 2020
Scientists study a luxuriant microbial mat on the Markham Ice Shelf, one of the last remaining ice ecosystems on the northern coast of Ellesmere Island.

Breakup of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf

Publication from NASA ESDIS describing research uses of data from EOSDIS - discovering the breakup of the biggest ice shelf in the Arctic.
Feature Article
Dec. 27, 2020
The April 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake revealed a previously undiscovered fault in the desert of Baja California, Mexico.

Baja's Fault

Before and after images trace an earthquake's surprise.
Feature Article
Dec. 27, 2020
The Atchafalaya River delta meets the Gulf of Mexico.

A Tale of Two Rivers

Complex structures keep the Mississippi River out of the Atchafalaya, for now.
Feature Article
Dec. 27, 2020
This view along Steensby Glacier in northern Greenland was seen during an Operation IceBridge survey flight on April 26, 2013.

A Submarine Retreat

New maps get to the bottom of Greenland’s outlet glaciers.
Feature Article
Dec. 27, 2020
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