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December 7, 2020

Biodiversity Beneath Our Feet

Increasing attention is being paid to soil biodiversity, which drives many processes that produce food or purify soil and water. A UN report highlights how critical soil organisms are, and how soil biodiversity can offer solutions to today's global threats.

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October 31, 2024

International SWOT Satellite Spots Planet-Rumbling Greenland Tsunami

Data from space shows water tilting up toward the north side of the Dickson Fjord as it sloshed from south to north and back every 90 seconds for nine days after a 2023 rockslide.

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October 30, 2024

California Makes Progress to Ensure Healthy Rivers and Landscapes

California is advancing restoration projects, streamflows for native fisheries, and a science plan in the state’s ongoing commitment to establishing and maintaining the health of our Sacramento River and Bay-Delta waterways and landscapes.

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March 24, 2024

California Zombie Lake Turned Farmland to Water. Is it now Gone for Good?

Resurrected for the first time in decades by an epic deluge of winter rain and snow, by spring the lake covered more than 100,000 acres, stretching over cotton, tomato and pistachio fields and miles of roads.

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March 6, 2024

SWOT Observes Coastal Flooding

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite provides a new view of water on land, at the coast, and in the ocean.

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January 24, 2024

Groundwater Levels Around the World Are Dropping Quickly, Often at Accelerating Rates

Rapid declines are most common in aquifers under croplands in drier regions, including California, the most extensive analysis of groundwater trends so far shows.

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January 10, 2024

US-Indian Satellite Will Monitor Earth’s Changing Frozen Regions

NISAR, the soon-to-launch radar satellite from NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation, will track changes in wetlands as well as other Earth vital signs.

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December 5, 2023

A Dusting of Snow on Hawaii’s Tallest Peaks

Snow lingered on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa after a storm brought copious precipitation to the island chain.

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November 25, 2023

Malaspina Glacier in a Riot of Color

Beautiful color palette reveals the features of an iconic glacial landscape in southeastern Alaska.

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November 23, 2023

Idaho’s Potato Belt

Almost one-third of American potatoes are grown in the Snake River Plain, a belt of low-lying land in the southern part of the state.