A round depression in the salty plains of the Kutch Basin reveals telltale signs of a prehistoric meteorite impact. Read More…
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Highlights of the environment and weather-related photo stories
The “young” and well-preserved crater helps scientists understand cratering processes on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system. Read More…
The 50,000-year-old crater is relatively young, and only the second discovered in China. Read More…
The 50,000-year-old crater is relatively young, and only the second discovered in China. Read More…
The world’s oldest and largest known impact structure shows some of the most extreme deformation conditions known on Earth. Read More…
Famously visible from space, ring-shaped Manicouagan Lake was filled at the dawn of the Space Age when Canada dammed a river to flood a...
On June 30, 1908, an incoming fireball exploded kilometers above Earth’s surface, scorching and toppling large numbers of trees. Read More…
Owens Lake, an arid playa tucked between the Inyo Mountains and the Sierra Nevada in California, is the site of dust mitigation efforts. Read...
A warm and dry spring in the Pacific Northwest quickly depleted the seasonal snowpack, raising concern over summer water supplies and wildland fire risk....
