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NASA has released more than 65,000 high-resolution aerial images of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, which document the full extent of the ecological damage caused by the deadly hurricane in 2017...

Hurricane Irma recently hit islands in the Caribbean with the force of a Category 5 storm. And now, NASA satellite images reveal how the devastating storm turned formerly green islands into a dull brown.[...]

Poppies, dune evening primrose, lupine, and other wildflowers are blanketing California in a super bloom so immense you can see it from space. After an especially wet winter, most of the state is finally drought-free - and...

China is home to the world's largest solar farm, which is so immense, it is visible from space. With around four million solar panels, Longyangxia Dam Solar Park has a capacity of 850 megawatts (MW) - pushing the country...

A gypsy moth caterpillar "population boom" has struck New England and mid-Atlantic states - and it's so big that you can see it from space. NASA Earth Observatory satellite images of Rhode Island show how much the caterpillars...

The ancient city of Petra in Jordan is known for its fascinating ruins built into surrounding rocky cliffs, and now archaeologists have made an exciting new discovery...

A new study has found that Mars is emerging from an ice age that ended about 400,000 years ago. While scientists have long believed that the planet has undergone several rounds of ice ages in the past, there have been few...

Archaeologists have confirmed only one site in North America with evidence of Viking inhabitants, but new discoveries in a remote area of Canada could reveal a second settlement...

NASA satellites are pretty nifty, in large part because they capture world events that we might not know about otherwise. That’s what happened recently, when NASA’s Landsat 8 recorded the image above on August 16 of...

NASA satellites are pretty nifty, in large part because they capture world events that we might not know about otherwise. That’s what happened recently, when NASA’s Landsat 8 recorded the image above on August 16 of...

New images show an algal bloom in the Caspian sea that's so big it can be seen from space. The recently released images taken by South Korea’s Kompsat-2 satellite in 2012 show green waters in a shallow northern section...

A disturbing menace is invading southwest Florida - and it's killing kills sea turtles, sharks and fish while threatening the region's economy. The "red tide" is caused by a bloom of toxic algae called Karenia brevis. It's...

A disturbning menace is invading southwest Florida in the form of a "red tide." A toxic algae that kills sea turtles, sharks and fish, red tides also threatens the region's economy. This particular strain called Karenia brevis...

What will our future cities look like? This is something that is constantly predicted, denied and debated. But the truth is we will just have to wait and see (while making our cities as green and clean as possible, of course.)...

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