Diving Into Kavachi’s Fury: Unraveling the Mysteries of an Undersea Volcano
A Landsat satellite acquired this image of discolored water drifting from the active underwater volcano. Kavachi is one of the most active submarine volcanoes in…
A Landsat satellite acquired this image of discolored water drifting from the active underwater volcano. Kavachi is one of the most active submarine volcanoes in…
Sea ice coverage reached its seasonal minimum in February 2024, tying with 2022 for the second-lowest extent in the satellite record. In the waters around…
This wide-angle photo offers the feeling of looking out over the Persian Gulf from an altitude of about 250 miles. An astronaut aboard the International…
The storm dropped a substantial amount of rain as it moved across Mozambique. In March 2024, low wind shear in the Mozambique Channel allowed Tropical…
Researchers are leveraging troves of data collected by animal-borne sensors to complement satellite observations, expand weather measurements, and better understand wildlife ecology in a changing…
A volcano on Fernandina, an uninhabited island dense with wildlife, is lighting up the night sky with the glow of lava. Fernandina, the youngest of…
The large reservoir in Catalonia shrank to 1 percent of capacity in March 2024. Three subsequent years of record low precipitation have taken a toll…
Ranchers in the Texas Panhandle recently faced a fire that charred more than 1 million acres. The Texas Panhandle is a sparsely populated region of…
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite provides a new view of water on land, at the coast, and in the ocean. A series of…
Scientists’ annual checkup on Earth’s carbon cycle found that burning oil, coal, and natural gas is impeding progress to limit climate change. Carbon dioxide emissions…
The effects of a warm winter in the upper Midwest are evident in the lack of lake ice. Ice coverage on the Great Lakes typically…
Huge understory fires are spreading throughout the state in northern Brazil as drought and heat turn the rainforest into tinder. Roraima—Brazil’s northernmost state—has a wet…
The surface melting of a high-elevation glacier in the Alps has rendered it unusable for scientific research. Glaciers are natural archives of past climate. In…
The future site of Indonesia’s new capital saw rapid change between 2022 and 2024. Since the summer of 2022, the jungles of eastern Borneo have…
Lakes and lava flows fill the depression atop this geologically young stratovolcano in eastern Türkiye. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photo…
New research shows that while some Antarctic ice shelves have been thinning since at least the 1970s, widespread thinning accelerated in the 1990s. For many…
Scientists speculated about these holes for decades, but it’s now well understood that cavum clouds are caused by airplanes. Cavum clouds, also called hole-punch clouds…
Refreshed by precipitation from an atmospheric river, a temporary lake in Death Valley is extending its stay. An ephemeral lake in Death Valley’s Badwater Basin…