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A prolonged drought across Texas desiccates plants and dries up livestock watering holes. (Courtesy AgriLife Today)

Drought on the Range

Ranchers want to know what to do about dry spells.

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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.

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Dec. 27, 2020

Retirees perform tai chi during a smoggy day in Fuyang, China in January 2013.

Crazy Bad Air

Open sharing of pollution data helps Chinese netizens brave the politics of murky air.

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

A full moon illuminates this power plant near Seal Beach in Rossmoor, California

Carbon Control

Radiocarbon and satellite data hint at the future of California emissions.

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Dec. 27, 2020

In this photograph, taken eleven years after the Charlton Fire in Oregon’s Willamette National Forest, a majority of snags still stand while gradually new vegetation is recovering.

Burned But Not Forgotten

Decades after a fire, high-elevation forests still shape a climate.

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

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