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Apollo astronauts previewed their roles as lunar field geologists in Alaska’s Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.
The first named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season brought intense rainfall and the threat of flash flooding to…
Drought and water releases drained the Arizona reservoir to levels that have led to widespread fish deaths.
Buoyant volcanic rock fragments from an underwater eruption drifted across the Bismarck Sea and choked island coasts.
In fire-prone ecosystems in Australia's Northern Territory, prescribed burns are lit to minimize the severity of fires later in the…
The sprawling storm promised to deliver torrential rain across a wide swath of southern Japan.
A wildland fire charred grassland, coastal sage scrub, and chaparral across one-third of the island, the second largest of the…
Satellites observed striking upper-atmosphere phenomena generated by an intensifying tropical cyclone.
Wild disturbances are on the rise, while land disturbed by human activity has been decreasing.
The volcano on Indonesia’s Halmahera Island routinely ejects ash, volcanic gases, and volcanic bombs.
The strongest of several twisters to touch down in the southern part of the state in early May 2026 left…
Satellite imagery shows a surge of new volcanic activity in the ocean near Papua New Guinea.
The blaze spread across the southern side of the second-largest island in California’s Channel Islands National Park.
Spring melt along Alaska’s Kuskokwim River caused ice jams and flooding.
A landslide-triggered tsunami stripped vegetation from the shore of the glacial fjord in summer 2025.
Near-constant activity continues on the volcano in Russia.
From a geothermal hotspot to the one-time “Lighthouse of the Pacific,” the heat is on beneath the volcanic landscape of…
Heavy rains from Tropical Cyclone Maila triggered a deadly landslide in the mountains of East New Britain.
