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Melinda Berman @melindaberman.bsky.social · 12d

Excited to share a new publication led by @drdavepeterson.bsky.social with contributions by Mike Fromm, René Servranckx and others, that analyzes the inventory of all known, worldwide, observed pyroCb events from 2013-2023! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Worldwide inventory reveals the frequency and variability of pyrocumulonimbus and stratospheric smoke plumes during 2013–2023 - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Worldwide inventory reveals the frequency and variability of pyrocumulonimbus and stratospheric smoke plumes during 2013–2023

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Adam Voiland @avoiland.bsky.social · 12d

“The frustration is overwhelming,” says the American Soybean Association. www.agriculture.com/partners-u-s... soygrowers.com/news-release...

U.S. Soybean Harvest Starts with No Sign of Chinese Buying as Brazil Sets Export Record

The U.S. soybean harvest began in September without any orders from the world’s largest buyer: China. American producers are harvesting a crop the USDA estimates at 4.3 billion bushels, and there is n...

www.agriculture.com

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Adam Voiland @avoiland.bsky.social · 12d

China normally buys billions of dollars’ worth of U.S. soybeans, but not this year. Here’s where farmers are feeling the pinch. Map based on the Cropland Data Layer. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15441...

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Adam Voiland @avoiland.bsky.social · 13d

September puzzler below. Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us where it is, what we are looking at, and why this area is interesting. Answer will be posted next week. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthm...

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Adam Voiland @avoiland.bsky.social · 14d

Very true! I should have worded that post differently. Thanks for flagging that.

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Adam Voiland @avoiland.bsky.social · 14d

Satellite data show decades of gradual but persistent change in forests around Kisangani, one of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s largest cities. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15481... 🛰️

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Adam Voiland @avoiland.bsky.social · 14d

It’s been a quiet year in the Northwest Pacific for typhoons but #Ragasa seems determined to change that. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15482...

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Adam Voiland @avoiland.bsky.social · 21d

Wildfires affect not just the air we breathe, but the water we drink. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15479...

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Adam Voiland @avoiland.bsky.social · 21d

Geologists have an amazing new superpower. With InSAR satellites, it’s possible to measure how much earthquakes move the land surface and even spot the earliest stirrings of volcanic eruptions from space. 🌍📡🌋 earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15477...

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Peter T Fretwell @ptfretwell.bsky.social · Aug 28

Each year as the sun starts to reappear over Antarctica I start the process of going through Sentinel2 imagery to find the locations of the 66 known emperor penguin colonies. Here is this year's first image, of Snow Hill, the most northerly colony. Can you spot the penguins?

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IFLScience @iflscience.com · Sep 1

The mark left by the hail storm can even be seen from space by satellites.

www.iflscience.com/supercell-st...

Supercell Storm Leaves 200-Kilometer-Long Hail Scar Across Canada’s “Hailstorm Alley”

The mark left by the hail can even be seen from space by satellites.

www.iflscience.com

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Adam Voiland @avoiland.bsky.social · Sep 2

New York City’s Manhattan Island was the site of the nation’s first Labor Day parade on September 5, 1882. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15473...

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Adam Voiland @avoiland.bsky.social · Sep 2

An asteroid that struck the rainforest in Africa around 1 million years ago created Ghana’s only natural lake. Now artisanal gold mining and urbanization are eating away at the forest around Lake Bosumtwi. Landsat images 2015 (left) and 2024 (right). ⬇️ earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15473...

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Adam Voiland @avoiland.bsky.social · Aug 12

Forests play a key role in filtering the waters of the Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts. The reservoir provides water to Boston and is home to submerged towns and nesting bald eagles but NOT endangered timber rattlesnakes. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15460... #Quabbin 🐍

Adam Voiland @avoiland.bsky.social · Aug 12

Sprawling Gifford Fire Scorches California earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15465...

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Adam Voiland @avoiland.bsky.social · Jul 20

It’s fine to dredge up old content but why not acknowledge it? Here is the original source visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/15201... www.naturalhazards.nasa.gov/images/15201...

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Adam Voiland @avoiland.bsky.social · Jul 20

Unfortunate that these outlets don’t bother to link to the original story or note that it was published in October 2023. www.ecoticias.com/en/nasa-spot... orbitaltoday.com/2025/07/16/n...

Found after 14,000 years — NASA spots eerie white skull in desert

NASA captures a skull-shaped illusion in the Sahara Desert: discover the eerie beauty and hidden history of Trou au Natron, a rare volcanic caldera.

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Adam Voiland @avoiland.bsky.social · Jul 20

More on the extreme surface irradiance in this area here. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

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Adam Voiland @avoiland.bsky.social · Jul 20

The plateau is home to several observatories, including the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). Look closely for signs of the array (roads) in this Landsat image. The photo is a screenshot from the live view www.almaobservatory.org/en/live-from... eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/image...

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Adam Voiland @avoiland.bsky.social · Jul 20

When snow falls on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Atacama Desert, it doesn’t typically last for long. The plateau faces some of the most intense surface irradiance on the planet. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15456... #chile

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Adam Voiland @avoiland.bsky.social · Jun 30

On June 30, 1908, an incoming fireball exploded kilometers above Earth’s surface, scorching and toppling large numbers of trees. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15448... #tunguska

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · Jun 19

Drop-dead gorgeous figures showing Hadley circulation patterns & cloud trends by Michala Garrison, NASA Earth Observatory.

earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15444...

#dataviz 📊🗺️

Diagram of the Hadley circulation with a Western Hemisphere view of cloud cover in 2015. Hadley cells are large-scale circulation patterns that start with rising air on either side of the Equator, falling air at about 30˚ north and south, and then mid-latitude and polar cells from about 30˚-60˚ and 60˚–90˚, respectively.

Plot cloud cover from 90˚ south to 90˚ north on the vertical axis and from 1984 to 2018 on the horizontal axis. Cloud cover is shown in shades of blue to light gray. Over time the clouds bands have narrowed and moved towards the poles.

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Adam Voiland @avoiland.bsky.social · Jun 19

“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free,” the order stated.

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Adam Voiland @avoiland.bsky.social · Jun 19

On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3. Union troops marched through Galveston and read the order aloud at several locations, including Union Army headquarters at the Osterman building. www.naturalhazards.nasa.gov/images/14845... #Juneteenth

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · Jun 17

This is not actually a subtweet of anything specific right now, but I do want to make a plea to everyone to a) attribute and link to the source of any information you're sharing b) only share posts that do so.

This isn't (just) about credit, it's about creating a chain of custody for information.

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