The tallest peak in the field stands roughly 3,900 feet (1,200 m) above sea ... or dust storms, according to NASA's Earth Observatory. This model also selected pixels where patches of sand that ...

The temporary belts, one of which still remains, were filled with high-energy electrons and protons and were found by a ...

Vast stretches of Russian coast have been tarred by heavy fuel oil from two freighters that foundered in a storm.

The Aral Sea between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan was once the fourth largest lake in the world, before Soviet irrigation projects caused most of it to dry up. The transformation of the freshwater ...

The drying of the Aral Sea has caused multiple animal species to go extinct and virtually ended human activity in the area. In addition, winds have carried tens of millions of tonnes of salt and toxic ...

Kazakhstan said on Monday the northern part of the Aral Sea had nearly doubled in volume since 2008, a rare environmental success story in a region plagued by pollution. Since 2008, the volume of ...

Satellite imagery from the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) showed desert dust moving north across the Mediterranean Sea on Monday, February 3.“A plume of dust from the ...

The drying of the Aral Sea has caused multiple animal species to go extinct and virtually ended human activity in the area. In addition, winds have carried tens of millions of tonnes of salt and toxic ...