Snowmelt and heavy rain caused historically high water in Yellowstone National Park that destroyed homes, roads, and bridges, and isolated some of the national park’s…
Tornado Scars Northern Michigan Satellite imagery shows the line of damage extending through Gaylord, Michigan. Gaylord, a city in Otsego County in northern Michigan with…
Bezymianny, a stratovolcano in Russia’s Far East, ejected a towering plume that streaked the snow with dark ash. A stratovolcano, also known as a composite…
In the Utah desert, the red rocks, cliffs, and canyons of this nautically named national park—and many of its famous fossils—owe their existence to water….
Researchers recently chronicled the death throes of A-68A, one of the world’s largest-known icebergs. As soon as an iceberg is born it starts to die….
Dubai’s coast has some of the largest and most recognizable land reclamation projects on Earth. There are no other coastlines on Earth quite like the…
Kavachi Volcano in the Southwest Pacific Solomon Islands—where hammerhead sharks prowl—has entered an active phase of eruption. The Solomon Islands’ Kavachi Volcano is one of…
The speed and intensity of the Black fire grew quickly, producing a pyrocumulonimbus cloud and crossing the Continental Divide, to become the second-largest fire in…
At least eight major events in Iraq have darkened skies and sickened people in the past six weeks. Iraq and other countries of the Middle…
When large waves break in Māʻalaea Bay, they do so with the crushing speed of a freight train. “Freight Trains” and “Jaws” may sound like…
A massive, early season wildfire that continues to burn in northern New Mexico generated a pyrocumulonimbus cloud. The Calf Canyon-Hermits Peak fire continued to rage…
Since May 2018, when Kīlauea’s lava lake last drained, the summit crater has filled with water, erupted again, boiled off the water, and refilled with…
The California mountain range alternated between extreme precipitation and none at all this winter. When it comes to mountain snow, the Sierra Nevada is notorious…
An unnamed mound of white off East Antarctica seems to be an island. The eastern coast of Antarctica has lost the majority of the Glenzer…
Scientists have been observing Peyto Glacier in Alberta since the 1960s. Peyto Glacier in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada is among the most closely monitored…
The hottest March in India on record was followed by more waves of oppressive heat in April, leaving more than a billion people sweltering and…
Laguna Ojo de Liebre, a lagoon on the Baja California Peninsula, is a whale sanctuary and the site of one of the largest saltworks in…
SeaHawk: The Little Satellite That Could The SeaHawk satellite is both a throwback to a previous era and a glimpse of the future. In the…
