Aqua Stories
Scientists pioneered a new system that combines data from multiple Earth-observing satellites to identify forest clearing up to 100 days earlier than current methods.
An advancing cold front kicked up a sharp line of sand and other small particles that swept over the high plains.
The National fire has burned tens of thousands of acres within the Florida preserve, fueled by vegetation dried by prolonged drought and killed by recent frost.
Dry, gusty conditions spurred fast-growing fires in Oklahoma and Kansas, along with dangerous dust storms across the region.
Widespread flooding affected tens of thousands of people after cyclones Fytia and Gezani drenched the island.
Weeks of intense rain overwhelmed rivers and reservoirs, displacing hundreds of thousands of people.
December and January brought a series of intense winter storms to the peninsula in far eastern Russia.
Satellite-based maps show northern wildland fires becoming more frequent and widespread as temperatures rise and lightning reaches higher latitudes.
An increasingly flammable landscape combined with more lightning strikes is leading to larger, more frequent, and more intense fires than the landscape is adapted for.
Blazes spread across Los Alerces National Park, home to some of the world's oldest trees.