Smooth, soft-edged clouds hovered over the Eisenhower Range in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Read More… Source: Read More: Curious Clouds in the Transantarctic Mountains
Multiple seasons of below-average rainfall have affected the country’s drinking water supplies and groundwater reservoirs. Read More… Source: Read More: Turkey Experiences Intense Drought
Video: 00:02:50 In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Tanezrouft Basin – one of the most desolate parts of the Sahara Desert. See also Tanezrouft Basin to download the image. Read Full article: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2021/01/Earth_from_Space_Tanezrouft
Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Tanezrouft Basin – one of the most desolate parts of the Sahara Desert. Read Full article: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/01/Tanezrouft_Basin
Earth’s average temperature has risen more than 1.2°C (2°F) since the late 19th century. Read More… Source: Read More: 2020 Tied for Warmest Year on Record
Central America experienced one of its most intense hurricane season in years, leading to widespread degradation to coastal environments. Read More… Source: Read More: 2020 Hurricanes Damage Vulnerable Mangroves
Image: The heavy snowfall that hit Spain a few days ago still lies heavy across much of the country as this Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite image shows. Read Full article: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/01/Spain_s_chilly_blanket
The lack of snow cover in December left Japan’s iconic mountain looking a little different than usual. Read More… Source: Read More: Mount Fuji’s Missing Snow
Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image of Madrid in Spain appears to have been taken in black and white. In fact, it is a true-colour image – but the heaviest snowfall in 50 years has blanketed the region, turning the landscape white. Read Full article: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/01/Madrid_snowbound
Using information from ESA’s Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have made a discovery about how energy generated by electrically-charged particles in the solar wind flows into Earth’s atmosphere – surprisingly, more of it heads towards the magnetic north pole than towards the magnetic south pole. Read Full article: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Swarm/Energy_from_solar_wind_favours_the_north
In spring and summer, conditions are often just right for populations of the plant-like organisms explode into enormous blooms. Read More… Source: Read More: Phytoplankton Factory in the Argentine Sea
Water that had pooled in the crater since 2019 quickly boiled off during an eruption that began in December 2020. Read More… Source: Read More: Kilauea’s Lava Lake Returns
Forty years of satellite data show that 2020 was just the latest in a decades-long decline of Arctic sea ice. Read More… Source: Read More: The Long Decline of Arctic Sea Ice
A founder of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory made a key mathematical insight about swirling, asymmetrical flow patterns. Read More… Source: Read More: The Stability of von Kármán’s Vortices
While there are efforts to reinforce its beaches and marshes, some of Barataria Bay is slowly slipping away. Read More… Source: Read More: Reshaping Coastal Louisiana
Astronauts will continue to photograph their home whether from low-Earth orbit or, as the Apollo astronauts once did, from the Moon. Read More… Source: Read More: New Year, New Horizon