Less than two weeks after being hit by category 4 Hurricane Eta, several Central American…
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Maui, the second largest island within the Hawaiian Island/Emperor Seamount Chain, hosts one of the…
On November 11, 2020, Typhoon Vamco thrashed the Philippines with sustained winds of 150 kilometers…
On November 1, 2020, the strongest storm of the year pummeled the Philippines. The Joint…
The 2020 summer monsoon season has delivered historic amounts of rain to China. Since June,…
For the fifth time this year, a named tropical storm or hurricane is going to…
On October 14, 2020, a small fire started north of Hot Sulphur Springs in north-central…
Like Earth, the dwarf planet of Pluto has mountains. Like their earthly cousins, some of…
For 20 years, astronauts have been shooting photos of Earth from the space station. Like…
Global sea level has been rising at a rate of 0.1 inches (3.3 millimeters) per…
While kayaking in Barry Arm fjord in June 2019, Valisa Higman, an artist-in-residence at Alaska’s…
The historic 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is not done yet. Hurricane Delta, the 25th named…
During the summer, the U.S. Great Plains routinely experiences nighttime thunderstorms unlike anywhere else in…
While passing over northern Utah, an astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS) captured this…
After a brief lull, a late-September heat wave reinvigorated California’s already brutal 2020 fire season.…
After burning more than 180 square miles (460 square kilometers) of the San Gabriel Mountains…
Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent on September 15, 2020, according to…
The Pantanal, a vast floodplain in South America, is among the largest wetlands in the…