May 24, 2023. In late May 2023, a potent typhoon spun toward the Mariana Islands in the North Pacific Ocean. The storm, named Typhoon Mawar, was one of the...
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May 6, 2023 to May 14, 2023. The melting of winter snowpack and breakup of river ice caused damaging floods along the Yukon, Tanana, Kuskokwim, and other Alaskan rivers...
Spruce trees in the boreal forest are evergreen and have green needles all year long. May 18th, 2023 by Fred Huemmrich and Petya Campbell, University of Maryland Baltimore County....
May 15, 2023. Raging fires filled the skies of southern Canada and the northern United States with smoke in mid-May 2023. The fires had scorched 478,000 hectares (1,800 square miles) in...
Sam Illingworth.Apr 21, 2023. Stories etched in barkplay out talesof light and shade,verdant cells of leavesand land.Climate’s past whispersin the boughs,breaking formand branchwith every shiftingstage.A tapestry of lifeweaved on fading...
June 9, 2022. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of the Yellow River (Huang He) floodplain on June 9, 2022. In this part of the...
September 23, 2022. 1¹has turned bright green in September and October as the population of a single-celled phytoplankton called Noctiluca scintillans soared. These large blooms of the marine dinoflagellates glow a spectacular shade of...
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April 20, 2023. For several weeks in April 2023, swirls of green and turquoise grew more vibrant in the waters off the Mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. Some...
May 15, 2023. A springtime heatwave has made large swaths of western North America feel like the dog days of summer. In mid-May 2023, western Washington and Oregon, along with...