Life on Earth
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The activity of herring around Vancouver Island in British Columbia brightened coastal waters enough to be detectable from space.
Plains around the San Andreas Fault and across Carrizo Plain National Monument are awash with yellow as wildflowers bloom.
Abundant rainfall in February and March 2026 transformed the desert landscape of Central Australia.
A series of nighttime satellite images revealed how moonlight reaching Earth varied throughout a total lunar eclipse.
As Iceberg A-23A disintegrated, it shed meltwater that helped fuel an extensive phytoplankton bloom in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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…
An ecologist, a volcanologist, and a chemist walk into a forest… it sounds like the beginning of a bad joke,…
About 2,900 Olympic athletes have converged on northern Italy to sort out who is the GOAT—or perhaps the stoat.
From autumn color to a winter-white finish, forested areas around Blacksburg trade foliage for snow over the span of two…
Reed-covered mounds exposed by declining water levels reveal an unexpected network of freshwater springs that feed directly into the lake…
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…
A vibrant display of phytoplankton encircled the remote New Zealand islands.
Satellite-based maps show northern wildland fires becoming more frequent and widespread as temperatures rise and lightning reaches higher latitudes.
An increasingly flammable landscape combined with more lightning strikes is leading to larger, more frequent, and more intense fires than…
The category 5 hurricane stirred up carbonate sediment near Jamaica in what scientists believe is the largest such event in…
Vivid green blooms form, drift, and fade in Hartbeespoortdam reservoir over the course of a year.
