Recent years have seen significant developments in satellites for oceanographers. The European Space Agency launched the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission and NASA launched the Aquarius ...

Left: A large boulder moved by the Manakamana landslide; Top right: A panoramic view of the same landslide, which can be seen on the left side of the picture; Bottom right: A top-down view of the ...

On May 28, 2025, the peaceful town of Blatten, Switzerland, was even more quiet than usual. Almost all of the 300 residents had been evacuated due to local geologists and glaciologists fearing the ...

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Smoky Air over North Carolina and Virginia This photograph taken from the Space Shuttle Discovery was taken at a slightly oblique look angle to better view air pollution and other atmospheric features ...

A longstanding technical challenge for oceanography has been how to measure the sea surface – temperature, salinity, gas exchange, or surfactants – to name a few examples. Obviously enough, the ...