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This visualization from the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) shows changes in elevation over Greenland.

Tracking the Itinerant

Geodesists seek crazy precision in measuring sea level.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

Person walking through flooded streets after Hurricane Sandy

Time and Tide

Scientists pit nature against nature to protect New Yorkers from storms.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

Image of icy mountains

The Un-Ice Age

Earth’s remaining ice sheets head for the ocean.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

River water is part of life in Bangladesh and when contaminated it can spread cholera.

The Time of Cholera

The color of water could be a tool for heading off epidemics.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

Juvenile blue chromis linger near the branches of an Acropora millepora colony off Lizard Island on the Northern Great Barrier Reef.

The Researcher, the Reef, and a Storm

Can marine reserves protect Earth’s underwater nurseries?

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

Wind speeds at a height of 80 meters (262 feet), or approximately the hub height of a turbine, indicate a viable wind resource in the study area.

The Power of a Brazilian Wind

Researchers discover that coastal winds could help change Brazil's energy portfolio.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

Photograph of a leatherback turtle

The Mysterious Lives of Leatherbacks

Knowing how leatherback sea turtles migrate could keep them safer.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

This image of Turkey offers a comparison of the color of the Black Sea (top of the image), which shows a phytoplankton bloom, and the Mediterranean Sea (bottom of the image)

Spin Cycle

So much depends on the ocean's deep churn.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

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