Green hues dominated the Persian Gulf days after a dust storm in the region.
Published Dec 14, 2011
Makgadikgadi Pan is one of the largest salt flats in the world.
Published Jul 1, 2019
Water hyacinths may look beautiful, but communities along Lake Victoria are in a constant battle with the fast-spreading plant.
Published Oct 5, 2014
A new study shows that winds are responsible for the widespread growth of ponds in three watersheds along the Mississippi River.
Published Jul 6, 2017
For decades, astronauts on space missions have documented land use changes around the world. Here, astronauts track the development of shrimp farming along the Honduran coastline of the Gulf of Fonseca between 1989 and 2001.
Published Jan 27, 2002
Located in eastern Canada, the Gulf of St. Lawrence owes many of its unique characteristics to its geography. Sea water flows into and out of the gulf through only two channels. Currents and tides sweep cold, Arctic seawater through the narrow Strait of Belle Isle in the north. In the south, the wider Cabot Strait admits warmer water from the Atlantic Gulf Stream. With no other outlet to the Atlantic, the Gulf of St. Lawrence is relatively isolated.
Published Apr 12, 2008
This photo-like image of the Texas and Louisiana coasts shows the impact of Hurricane Ike’s powerful storm surge on coastal wetlands. Hurricane Ike came ashore bringing with it a wall of water that stretched from Galveston, Texas, across all of coastal Louisiana.
Published Oct 4, 2008
Swirling patterns in Spencer Gulf require a bit of detective work.
Published Nov 23, 2016
A burst of color lit the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico off the Yucatan Peninsula on December 14, 2008.
Published Jan 3, 2009
Extreme water temperatures in 2018 fit with a much longer trend in the region, which is among the fastest-warming parts of the global ocean.
Published Sep 12, 2018
