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Alaska’s Vegetation is Changing Dramatically
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Alaska’s Vegetation is Changing Dramatically

Tree and plant cover has deteriorated considerably in some areas, while advancing in other areas that previously burned or used to be frozen.

Published Jul 27, 2020

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Vegetation in North America
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Vegetation in North America

Published Dec 22, 2001

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Drought Devastates Vegetation in Oklahoma Panhandle
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Drought Devastates Vegetation in Oklahoma Panhandle

As of early August 2008, the Oklahoma panhandle was experiencing its driest year (previous 365 days) since 1921, according to records kept by the Oklahoma Climatological Survey. Through July, year-to-date precipitation in Boise City, in the heart of Cimarron County, was only about 4.8 inches, barely half of average and drier than some years in the 1930s, the height of the Dust Bowl.

Published Aug 14, 2008

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Tornado Hits La Plata, Maryland
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Tornado Hits La Plata, Maryland

This pair of images from the Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR) shows the strip of flattened and possibly denuded vegetation left by the F4 tornado (winds from 207 to 260 miles per hour, causing “devastating damage”) that struck La Plata, Maryland on April 28, 2002.

Published May 8, 2002

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Canyons of the Andes Mountains, Southern Peru
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Canyons of the Andes Mountains, Southern Peru

In the arid terrain of the western slopes of the Andes Mountains in southern Peru, very little vegetation exists to soften or obscure the rugged topography. In the central part of the state of Ayacucho, pictured in this satellite image, the mountains are dramatically sliced by dozens of nearly straight, parallel canyons that point southwest toward the Pacific coast.

Published Apr 10, 2008

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