Forests
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Athabasca Oil Sands, Alberta, Canada
One of the world’s largest reserves of oil sits under the boreal fores...
Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar
The Ayeyarwady Delta—also called the Irrawaddy Delta—is a vast alluvia...
Batagaika Crater, Russia
Sometimes described as resembling a stingray or a tadpole, the Batagai...
Black Hills, SD, USA
We can’t see bugs from space, but we can see the effects of insect inf...
Gypsy Moth Infestation, MA, CT, RI, USA
While certainly too small to see from space, the gypsy moth caterpilla...
Logging in Oregon, USA
Every year, it takes one tree, 16 inches in trunk diameter and 100 fee...
Madagascar
Madagascar, the world’s fourth largest island, is located off the sout...
Monarch Butterflies, Mexico
The patches of red in these false-color Landsat images are the forests...
Mount St. Helens
These images show the area around Mount St. Helens, in southwestern Wa...
Muskingum Mines, Ohio, USA
These images show shifting strip mines in eastern Ohio, from 1973 to 2...
Okomu Forest Reserve, Nigeria
Closed-canopy tropical moist forest once covered large parts of this l...
Papua, Indonesia
The growth of the palm oil industry has transformed part of the tropic...
Rondônia, Brazil
The conversion of tropical rain forests to pasture and cropland is hav...
Saloum River, Senegal
The estuaries of the Saloum River, near the coast in Senegal, are surr...
Santa Cruz, Bolivia
In the 1960s, San Julian, Bolivia, was nearly inaccessible, located de...
Wyperfeld National Park, Australia
These images show Wyperfeld National Park, Victoria, in southeastern A...
Yellowstone National Park, USA
The summer of 1988 was unusually dry in the western United States. Dry...