Smog in Northern Italy

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Smog in the Northern Adriatic Sea

The boot of Italy crosses the image in this southwest-looking view taken by the crew of the International Space Station.

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Turin, Italy

Located in the Piedmont (Piemonte in Italian) region of northwestern Italy, the city of Turin (Torino) is an important industrial and cultural center, and it hosted the Twentieth Olympic Winter Games. The city is located on the northern banks of the famous Po River. Two of the Po’s major tributaries are visible in this image, Stura di Lanzo and the Malone River.

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Fall Color in Ottawa

Trees have long been cherished here for timber and for the colors they bring to “the Fall Rhapsody.”

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The Rhône River in Geneva

Alpine in character and perennial in flow, the river is a crucial resource for hydroelectricity, irrigation, transportation, and tourism.

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Clear Skies Over Western Europe

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Dust Storm, Turkmenistan, Central Asia

An astronaut photograph shot with a short focal length lens shows a wide swath of central Asia and the Earth’s limb in the distance.

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Smog or Fog? Actually, a Bit of Both

A photograph by an astronaut leads us to a teachable moment about what’s in our air.

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Niobrara National Scenic River

Cliffs, waterfalls, and a wide mix of vegetation line a river that winds through the Great Plains in Nebraska.

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Arkansas River Meanders

Near the city of Little Rock, the river has meandered for decades, leaving its marks across the landscape.

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Flooding on the Ob River

Floods

Bellinzona, Switzerland

Valley communes have been growing and consolidating in the Alpine foothills.

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Floods in Central China

Floods

Horton River Delta, Arctic Canada

In the past few centuries, a river in northwestern Canada stopped wandering and assumed a more direct route to the sea.

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Thames River Plume in the North Sea

Though the River Thames pours into the North Sea in southeast England, the river does not end there. Its plume of fresh water, colored tan by the earth picked up on its journey across England, flows through the dark blue waters of the North Sea along the coast of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany before fading in a cloud of green near Denmark.

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Connecticut River Oxbow

Floods and new infrastructure have long since separated the distinctive bend in the river that was portrayed by landscape painter Thomas Cole in 1836.

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River of Dust Flows from Africa to Italy

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