August 16, 2023. The Canary Islands were at the center of a mélange of natural events in summer 2023. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite...
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August 16, 2023. Large wildland fires burning around Yellowknife have prompted Canadian authorities to issue evacuation orders for the city and other nearby communities. The city, the capital of...
August 20, 2023. Once a powerful category 4 hurricane, Hilary weakened and made landfall in northern Mexico on August 20, 2023, pelting the Baja California peninsula and two U.S....
July 2023 was hotter than any other month in the global temperature record, according to an analysis by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). “This July...
August 17, 1984 to July 28, 2023. Each year, hundreds of thousands of people visit Mendenhall Glacier—an easily accessible glacier near Juneau in Southeast Alaska. But each year, there...
As the International Space Station orbited over the Sahara Desert in the late-afternoon of May 3, 2023, an astronaut took this photograph of hills and sand dunes in southern...
August 7, 2023. Antarctica is in the depths of winter, yet the continent is surrounded by much less sea ice than scientists expected for this time of year. Throughout...
August 18, 2023. Hurricane Hilary, a category 4 storm in the Pacific Ocean, approached the Baja California peninsula on August 18, 2023. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)...
A team studying Russian glaciers found evidence that a volcanic eruption in southern Peru changed the planet’s climate at the beginning of the 17th century. Researchers aboard the R/V Akademik...
Fires happen every summer in Canada, but not at the scale seen in 2023. Data released by the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre indicates that in early August—about halfway...