August 23, 2023. High heat and humidity blanketed many states in the U.S. South, Midwest, and Great Plains in late August of 2023, when a large area of high...
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June 18, 2023 to July 24, 2023. Severe thunderstorms routinely pop up across the U.S. Midwest and Great Plains in the summer. The storms’ violent bursts of wind and...
August 22, 2023. A month after fires tore across parts of Greece in July 2023, dozens more fires ignited within 24 hours across the country in late August 2023....
July 9, 2022. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this oblique photograph of polar mesospheric clouds during one of the 16 sunsets visible from the station each...
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...
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...