September 17, 2022. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photo of the Aleutian Islands off the coast of mainland Alaska. The archipelago is illuminated by moonglint—a...
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August 21, 2023.. For more than a decade, drought has plagued central Chile. The prolonged dry period—a megadrought—has fueled wildfires, strained water supplies, and parched crops. In winter 2023,...
September 6, 2023. Following weeks of heat waves and fires, torrential rains unleashed widespread flooding in Central Greece in early September 2023. Over the course of the four-day storm...
August 18, 2023. While some weather-related delays are mere annoyances, others slow the rhythms of global shipping. Due to ongoing drought and low water levels, ship traffic was restricted...
August 24, 2023. This story was updated on August 28, 2023, to include new information about the fire. Since May 2023, large clusters of wildland fires burned in several...
August 21, 2023. In March and April 2023, some earth scientists began to point out that average sea surface temperatures had surpassed the highest levels seen in a key...
August 29 – 30, 2023. After roaring into the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Idalia made landfall over the Big Bend region of Florida on the morning of August 30,...
Satellite Photo taken by the crew stationed in INTERNATIINAL SPACE STATION In Outer Space. Picture released by NASA. August 29, 2023. An External High-Definition Camera (EHDC) on the International...
June 27, 2023.. Pockmarked landscapes in Australia may be a treasure map of sorts for a natural source of clean energy. Clusters of so-called “fairy circles” in the North...
December 11, 2022. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photo of the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, which straddles the Wyoming-Utah border. Snow blankets the mountains...