Life on Earth
Life on Earth Sub-topics
The city's metro area has pushed westward since it last hosted World Cup matches in 1986, expanding across a landscape…
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.
Something is brewing in shallow waters offshore of Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia.
From a geothermal hotspot to the one-time “Lighthouse of the Pacific,” the heat is on beneath the volcanic landscape of…
The beech forests of southern Patagonia put on vibrant autumn displays.
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.
Scientists pioneered a new system that combines data from multiple Earth-observing satellites to identify forest clearing up to 100 days…
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.
