The rapid pace of melting glaciers is causing profound environmental and geopolitical changes due to shifting national ...

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. We like to think of land as a fairly static thing, considering that's where we spend the ...

NASA has released images of a vanishing "ghost island" in the Caspian Sea captured by its satellites. The Kumani Bank mud ...

A mysterious island appeared in the Caspian Sea in 2023 due to a mud volcano eruption and vanished by the following year, ...

Scientists were intrigued after NASA satellites spotted a mysterious “ghost island” that formed and then disappeared just as ...

New Zealand's Whakaari/White Island, a continuously active volcano, was recently photographed by Landsat 9 during a phase of ...

"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.

The NASA Earth Observatory has released a series of images taken with the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and OLI-2 instruments on the Landsat 8 and 9 satellites, in which you can see the birth and ...

A spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) has been found in South Eastern Egypt, the first recorded instance of the creature in this ...

Satellites spotted a "ghost" Island - and then watched it vanish. The landmass emerged from the Caspian Sea after a mud ...

Kumani Bank mud volcano has produced transient islands multiple times since its first recorded eruption in 1861.

The island formed in early 2023, when a mud volcano in the Caspian Sea’s Kumani Bank, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) off the coast of Azerbaijan, burst. The landmass is called Chigil-Deniz, but based ...