Human Dimensions
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Urban development, green spaces, and maritime activity converge in this Northern California city.
Once below a shallow sea, Jabal al Fāyah now stands above the desert in the United Arab Emirates as a…
An astronaut’s photo, taken en route to the Moon, reveals our planet and its place in space in a novel…
Radar data from an agricultural area in South Africa, shown in a vivid color palette, reveal crop types and how…
Wild disturbances are on the rise, while land disturbed by human activity has been decreasing.
In a precursor to Memorial Day, people in Charleston, South Carolina, honored fallen Civil War troops with flowers, songs, and…
The glacial lake left a layer of silt and clay in southeastern Manitoba, creating fertile farmland that was divided during…
A recent analysis revealed where artificial light at night has intensified, as well as where it has diminished.
From a geothermal hotspot to the one-time “Lighthouse of the Pacific,” the heat is on beneath the volcanic landscape of…
Diversity reigns across the farmland of Yunlin County in southwestern Taiwan—a region that produces an array of crops on small…
Seasonal fires have darkened skies over Southeast Asia.
Along the northeast side of the Capital Beltway in Maryland, green spaces weave through the developed landscape.
A series of nighttime satellite images revealed how moonlight reaching Earth varied throughout a total lunar eclipse.
A NASA luminary from the Apollo era grew up in Wales near Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
George Washington was born along this tidal creek in Virginia and, as a teenager, made one of his first surveying…
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.
After marching from Selma, Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, and…
