Wild patterns on the water's surface are evidence of the fluid dynamics that occur when fresh river water meets sea water.
Published Aug 20, 2018
Dissolved organic matter from forests and wetlands stained the water dark brown near Rupert Bay. A similar process darkens tea.
Published Oct 1, 2016
High tides in the funnel-shaped bay are anything but a bore when they collide with river water flowing in the opposite direction.
Published Oct 28, 2019
Despite the bay’s calm waters, constant reminders of the city break through.
Published Oct 5, 2017
Raised beaches around the bay in Canada’s Ontario Province show how the landscape responded after the last ice age.
Published Oct 19, 2020
Taken near the northernmost extent of the space station’s orbit, this photograph shows ice growth in the midst of freezing season near James Bay.
Published Jan 31, 2019
Few people live around the Ulbanskiy Bay. Whales, however, are plentiful.
Published Apr 9, 2017
Sea ice can linger on Hudson Bay into the summer, but it is usually gone by mid-August.
Published Jul 30, 2018Image of the Day Water Unique Imagery Snow and Ice Sea and Lake Ice
A drop of water that falls in central New York takes a long ride to the sea. It flows past some extraordinary natural features that help tell the story of how the Chesapeake Bay came to be.
Published Jul 22, 2016
When the ice on Hudson Bay breaks up and melts away, polar bears head to shore for a few months. This year they stayed out a little longer.
Published Jul 28, 2017
Ice in Hudson Bay starts melting each April, and melts away completely each July. Images from early April and early June 2012 document the ice retreat.
Published Jun 17, 2012
The timing of ice breakup on Hudson Bay occurs earlier now than it did decades ago.
Published Jul 6, 2014
Rising and falling seas and ancient rivers formed a bay lined with the whitest sands in the world.
Published May 11, 2013
Clew Bay’s drumlins peek out from underneath the water like the tips of icebergs. There are 365 of them—one for every day of the year, according to local folklore.
Published Sep 3, 2016
Mud clouds much of the Chesapeake Bay in this image from September 13, 2011.
Published Sep 16, 2011
