Monster Waves of Nazaré: Some of the Largest Waves Ever Surfed
Just-right conditions off the coast of this Portuguese fishing town have churned out some of the largest waves ever surfed. Big-wave surfers need more than…
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Just-right conditions off the coast of this Portuguese fishing town have churned out some of the largest waves ever surfed. Big-wave surfers need more than…
Despite an overall trend of Arctic ice loss, the Bering Sea saw an expansion of sea ice due to a short-lived atmospheric-pressure pattern. In 2022,…
The Thar desert’s abundance of open space and sunshine make it an ideal place for solar power. Scorching temperatures, infertile soils, limited water supplies, and…
While in orbit over Egypt, an astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS) captured a photograph of this heart-shaped basin bordering the Nile River and…
The plume from Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai behaved like a mega-thunderstorm that rose 58 kilometers (38 miles) into the atmosphere. When an underwater volcano erupted near…
Landsat 9 completed its own pass last week in time for the big game. Passes will be flying today in Los Angeles at the Super…
A blast of high-speed solar wind provoked dancing auroras in early February. Auroras are a brilliant reminder that Earth is constantly absorbing energy from the…
Sporting events in Beijing are clustered in three zones, each with distinct geography. Beijing, the host city for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games, is situated…
Heat and drought exacerbated fire season in 2020, but cattle grazing and other human activities also primed the region to burn. One of the world’s…
Researchers are using data from weather satellites to detect meteors entering Earth’s atmosphere. The new year began with a bang in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Early on…
NASA scientists have been closely watching the evolution of the volcanic island near Tonga since 2015. When a volcano in the South Pacific Kingdom of…
Several Earth-observing satellites collected data during and after the potent blast. One of the most potent volcanic eruptions in decades has obliterated a small, uninhabited…
A summer heatwave knocked out power in Argentina, while heat in Western Australia likely tied the hottest temperature ever measured south of the equator. Summer…
After months of severe drought, a burst of rain is causing problems. For much of 2021, drought gripped southern Iran, parching crops, drying wells, and fueling protests over…
A dark, rainy spring gave way to a vast, long-lived phytoplankton bloom off the coast of Brazil. Beachgoers in the Brazilian state of Rio de…
Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2021 tied 2018 as the sixth-warmest year on record, according to independent analyses from NASA and the National Oceanic…
A sensor installed on the International Space Station is yielding fresh insights on the global distribution of lightning. Since the dawn of humanity, lightning has…
Clouds parted for a glimpse of one of the most dangerous volcanoes on Earth. Mount Vesuvius, located 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) southeast of Naples, Italy,…