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This false-color satellite image shows sea ice in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas (red) near Barrow, Alaska.

Mercury Raining

Today's forecast calls for atmospheric explosions and mercury rain.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

This map, created using data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission, reveals variations in the Earth's gravity field.

Matter in Motion: Earth's Changing Gravity

A new satellite mission sheds light on Earth's gravity field and provides clues about changing sea levels.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

Heavy winds and stormy seas cause the cargo ship Rena to run aground on October 5, 2011, spilling its cargo and eventually sinking.

Heavy Weather, High Seas

Can dangerous sea states be predicted?

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

A mountain gorilla nestles within dense vegetation in the Mgahinga Gorilla National Park in Uganda.

Heart of Drought

A mighty forest fades in the Congo.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

Windmills scattered across the Great Plains mark where people have brought groundwater to the surface.

Getting at Groundwater with Gravity

Scientists use a pair of new satellites to keep up with groundwater resources.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

A Bedouin shepherd tends his sheep amid a parched landscape in Syria. (Courtesy J. Werner)

Crisis in the Crescent

Drought turns the Fertile Crescent into a dust bowl.

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

An artistic rendering shows that Earth’s rotation has dragged space-time with it.

A Snag in Space-Time

Astrophysics use Earth science satellites to explore general relativity.

Feature Article

Dec. 27, 2020

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A Snag in Space-Time

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