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Fires burning in boreal forests created hazy skies across North America in summer 2025.
The latest in a string of episodic eruptions produced voluminous fiery flows at the Hawaiian volcano’s summit.
Amid scorching heat and low humidity, the Green and Butler fires have burned tens of thousands of acres and choked…
NASA airborne technology revealed the progression of a controlled fire at Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield.
A warm and dry spring in the Pacific Northwest quickly depleted the seasonal snowpack, raising concern over summer water supplies…
The eastern United States sweltered under high heat and humidity in late June 2025, breaking temperature records across the Midwest…
Unusually warm sea surface temperatures lingered for months in the waters around the U.K. and Ireland in spring 2025.
Temperatures soared across the island during an early, widespread, and long-lasting hot spell.
Plumes choked Siberian skies as early-season wildland fires burned near a city in eastern Russia. Â
The Hawaiian volcano has been spewing fountains of lava with remarkable frequency.
A new analysis suggests that a large freshwater plume in the hurricane’s path helped fuel its extraordinary growth.
February 2025 was a scorcher, with record temperatures in parts of Brazil and notable heat in Argentina.
An unusual number of tropical storms churned across the planet’s southern oceans simultaneously in February 2025.
Seasonal Santa Ana winds helped fuel a large fire near Ensenada, Mexico.
The fire in Los Angeles County burned through nearly 24,000 acres in one week in January 2025.
A NASA analysis shows that global temperatures in 2024 were 1.28 degrees Celsius (2.30 degrees Fahrenheit) above the agency’s 20th-century…
Windswept rocks and sand take many forms in this arid salt desert.
A tongue of lava from the eruption flowed into the parking lot of the geothermal spa.
