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This satellite image highlights the confluence of three of Guyana’s major rivers—the Cuyuni, the Mazaruni, and the Essequibo. Darker waters likely contained less suspended sediment. Light brown waters likely contained enormous amounts of fine-grained sediment🧪

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Reshaping the Forests Around Kisangani: This map details where forest losses have occurred around Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo, between 2001 and 2024, older losses in purple and pink and more recent losses in orange and yellow 🧪

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An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this downward-looking photo of part of Mozambique’s northern coast in southeastern Africa. The light-toned Rio Lúrio snakes across the top half of the scene. Its delta empties into Baía do Lúrio, which opens into the Mozambique Channel.🧪

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Cooper Creek Replenishes Lake Eyre: Floodwaters in Cooper Creek began filling Lake Eyre in late July. These false-color images show the shift in contributing tributaries and the changes in the lake’s extent.

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Australia’s Howick River: Winding across the Jeannie catchment in northern Queensland, the river sustains diverse ecosystems on its way to the Coral Sea.🧪

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Greenland Ice Sheet Gets a Refresh: A moderately intense season of surface melting left part of the ice sheet dirty gray in summer 2025, but snowfall has since freshened its appearance. 🧪

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An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of the glow of city lights, the aurora, and a rising Moon illuminate the night along the northwest coast of North America 🧪

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Dark Skies Over the Great Basin: Far from large urban areas, Great Basin National Park offers unencumbered views of the night sky and opportunities to study distant stars and exoplanets. 🧪

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Browns Canyon National Monument: The remote and rugged landscape in central Colorado is known for outdoor recreation by day and exceptional stargazing by night. 🧪

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An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The highly oblique image gives an enhanced sense of the topography. Kamchatka Peninsula experiences frequent tectonic activity 🧪

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Sprawling Gifford Fire Scorches California: The fast-growing blaze charred more than 100,000 acres in the span of a week 🧪

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Quabbin Reservoir is one of the largest unfiltered drinking water supplies in the United States. It supplies water to nearly 2.7 million people in the Greater Boston area, as well as three towns in Western Massachusetts 🧪

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An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this long-exposure photo of brilliant illumination coming from airglow, lightning, and stars

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Bloom Time in the Barents Sea: Arctic waters near Norway’s Bear Island teemed with tiny plant-like organisms that painted the seas turquoise-blue and green 🧪

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Wildfire Sweeps Through Southern France: The Aude fire rapidly burned around 16,000 hectares in August 2025, becoming the country’s largest fire since 1949 🧪

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Winds whipped across the coast of central and southern Peru on July 31, 2025, lofting dust and sand particles into the air. Giant plumes of the particles blew inland, where they turned skies orange, reduced visibility, and degraded air quality

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Decades of retreat at the Steller Glacier in Alaska have left Berg Lake with new plumbing Satellites have observed the glacier’s thinning and retreat since the 1970s Satellite imagery now reveals that this retreat has reworked the outflow of Berg Lake, which fills and drains annually

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The Monroe Canyon fire in central Utah experienced rapid growth during dry, windy days in late July 2025, creating hazy skies throughout the region

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Based on firsthand accounts, Echimamish river’s flow splits from a beaver-flooded area west of Painted Stone Portage. The river connects with the Nelson River to the west and the Hayes River to the east, which both empty into Hudson Bay about 300 miles away.

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Wanmei L 🌎🛰️ @mapsbyw.com · 25/07/2025

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of the Mutnovsky Volcano, located on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula

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Rare Snowfall in the Atacama Desert: Snow infrequently falls in the high plains of northern Chile. And when it does, it doesn’t last for long 🧪 📷 June 26 2025, the day after the storm 📷 July 17, 2025

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Wanmei L 🌎🛰️ @mapsbyw.com · 25/07/2025

The Colorado River Basin has lost nearly the equivalent of an underground Lake Mead 💧🌎⚠️ 📰 A recent study finds the basin lost about 27.8 million acre-feet ❗ of groundwater from 2002-2024. About 68% of the losses occurred in the lower part of the basin, which lies mostly in Arizona 🧪

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Wanmei L 🌎🛰️ @mapsbyw.com · 25/07/2025

In the early morning hours of July 20, 2025, fountains of lava began pouring continuously from vents in the summit caldera of Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano 🧪 This eruptive episode was the 29th in a stretch of periodic activity in Halema‘uma‘u Crater that began on December 23, 2024.

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Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, a volcano on the Indonesian island of Flores, erupted on July 7, 2025, propelling a column of ash 18 kilometers (11 miles) into the air. This latest event is a continuation of eruptive activity occurring at Laki-Laki since late 2023 🧪

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Long ago, Santorini Island had a typical conical shape with steep sides. But a series of eruptions over hundreds of thousands of years emptied the Greek island’s magma chamber, which eventually collapsed & created a crater-shaped depression called a caldera, which can still be seen in modern day 🧪

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An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of Gas Hure Lake located in Qinghai, a northwestern Chinese province on the Tibetan Plateau

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