Aral Sea, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
We see a lot of change with the nearly 50 years of Landsat imagery, along with the declassified satellite imagery in the archives at EROS. The drying ...
Devils Lake, North Dakota, USA
Devils Lake in northeastern North Dakota is a closed basin lake. Located at the lowest point within its basin, Devils Lake has no outlet. The result i...
Gibe III Dam, Ethiopia
The great thing about hydropower is that it’s a renewable nonpolluting source of power. Once it’s up and running, operation costs are relatively low, ...
Iguazú, South America
On the border between Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina are some curious land use features. Paraguay lies west of the Paraná River, which runs north to ...
Kara-Bogaz-Gol, Turkmenistan
The Kara-Bogaz-Gol (KBG) is a large, shallow lagoon of the Caspian Sea. It normally covers about 18,000 square kilometers and is just a few meters dee...
Lake Powell, Utah and Arizona, USA
Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River was completed in 1963. It created Lake Powell, which ebbs and flows depending on upstream precipitation. Lately,...
Lake Turkana, Kenya and Ethiopia
Lake Turkana, formerly Lake Rudolf, lies in the Rift Valley of East Africa. It is about 250 km long and 15–30 km wide, with an average depth of about ...
Lesotho
South Africa needed water. Lesotho needed electricity. One huge project aims to solve both problems. Lesotho is a small mountainous country completely...
Three Gorges Dam, China
The Three Gorges Dam in the Hubei province of China is a huge but highly criticized project. It’s difficult to deny the value of hydropower as an alte...
