In British Columbia’s Coast Mountains, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) inland from the Pacific Ocean, rivers and lakes cut tortuous paths through rugged terrain. The peaks and valleys in this region are covered with forest, but the forest has changed over the years due to human use and insect pests, in particular, the mountain pine beetle.
Published Oct 12, 2008
Since the mid-1200s, the state has controlled Niepołomice Forest, which contains some of the last pockets of old-growth forest in Poland.
Published Nov 29, 2013
Though there are no historical accounts, geologic evidence suggests an eruption about 3,100 years ago affected Pre-Columbian settlements in Mexico.
Published Nov 25, 2013
The landscape is a recently formed set of basaltic lava flows that creates a foreboding landscape of sharp obsidian, cinder and spatter cones, twisted rivers of solidified rock, pit craters, and a network of caves from lava tubes.
Published Oct 16, 2005
The deep green forest that covers the northern mountains of Madeira Island is one of the last remnants of an ancient forest that once covered much of Europe and North Africa.
Published May 15, 2010
By changing a percentage, institutions can take some forested lands off the map.
Published Dec 18, 2015
Towering over the surrounding mountains, Oregon’s second-tallest peak poses a challenge for climbers and satellites.
Published Nov 17, 2013
To celebrate Earth Day, Earth Observatory released a series of five puzzlers. Except for Thetford forest, all showed landscapes relatively untouched by human society.
Published Apr 27, 2013
Acquired February 4, 2003, this natural-color image shows Parque Nacional Llullaillaco along the Chile-Argentina border.
Published Oct 9, 2011
The snow-covered southeastern flank of Mount Fuji Volcano appears in this astronaut photograph from April 8, 2009.
Published Jun 29, 2009
Concepción Volcano is one of the tallest and most active of Nicaragua’s volcanoes. The 1,610-meter (5,280-foot), cone-shaped volcano is the northern half of dumbbell-shaped Isla de Ometepe. To the northwest of the crater, a very faint plume (probably steam) creeps like fog down the mountain, blurring the sharp gullies that carve the volcano’s flanks.
Published May 29, 2007
A labor of love in the Argentine Pampas becomes a work of art for the planet.
Published Apr 27, 2014
Llaima Volcano had temporarily quieted when the Advanced Land Imager passed overhead on April 16, 2009.
Published Apr 23, 2009
Although nearly a century has passed since its last eruption, signs of volcanic activity are still visible in this false-color image.
Published Jan 29, 2006
