Turnabout Glacier flows like cake frosting over the rough surface of Canada's Ellesmbere Island.
Earth Observatory is Part of the New Google Earth
Through a collaboration with Google, two Earth Observatory image collections were recently featured during the launch of the new Google Earth product.
Petermann Glacier’s New Crack
Glaciologist Kelly Brunt snapped a photo of a new crack that has formed on a glacier in northwestern Greenland.
An Optimistic View For Earth Day
While the planet faces major environmental challenges, advances in science and engineering offer reason for optimism.
Mystery Solved: Dust—Not Volcanic Ash—on Larsen C Ice Shelf
A tweet showing a dark smear on an ice shelf in Antarctica prompted scientists to check into what might have caused it.
Modern Satellites: Littler and Mightier Than Before
Modern “CubeSat” satellites are smaller and more numerous than ever.
On This Date: The Bingham Canyon Landslide
Four years ago today, one of the largest non-volcanic landslides in U.S. history began high on the northern wall of Utah's Bingham Canyon mine.
April Puzzler
Your challenge for the April puzzler is to tell us what part of the world we are looking at, what the image shows, and why the scene is interesting.
SMAP! Goes The Memory
Recent findings published in Nature Geoscience show that roughly 14 percent of all rainfall remains in the uppermost soil layer for as long as three days after a storm.