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Along the northeast side of the Capital Beltway in Maryland, green spaces weave through the developed landscape.

A NASA luminary from the Apollo era grew up in Wales near Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

About 2,900 Olympic athletes have converged on northern Italy to sort out who is the GOAT—or perhaps the stoat.

The expansion of greenhouses in southern Ontario is changing the appearance of the land surface—and the night sky.

Satellites have tracked development over the decades as a small city in southern Nigeria grew to more than 2 million…

The ancient walls, ramparts, and ditches that wind through this Nigerian city are the longest known earthworks of the pre-mechanical…

A Gulf Coast storm followed by snowmelt in January 2025 temporarily increased the Mississippi River’s outflow, sending a surge of…

Researchers are using satellites to study development patterns in this fast-growing city in Ethiopia.

The Landsat satellite program, with its unparalleled 53-year historic record, can reveal changes through the Annual National Land Cover Database…





