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During the 2022 summer melt season, sediment plumes and fractured sea ice traced swirling eddies in a branch of the…
If you want to understand how interconnected our planet is—how patterns and events in one place can affect life half…
Strong tidal currents, changes in the sea floor, and winds funneling through Cook Strait stir complicated flow patterns off of…
The shoreline of Cape Cod provides a visual case study in the evolution and dynamic motion of barrier islands and…
The Gulf Stream is a warm current amidst the cool North Atlantic. But the pattern is hardly uniform.
Soft shades of turquoise and tan color the waters of the Gulf of Alaska and Prince William Sound in this…
Strong winds gusted over the Gulf of Mexico on December 16, 2007, and though the wind is invisible in these…
On July 4, 2000, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image…
Tucked into a pocket between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the Bay of Fundy is famous…
