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Winds, waves, and ice near a remote town on the Chukchi Peninsula have sculpted a series of coastal inshore lagoons…
A weak La Niña emerged in the equatorial Pacific in late 2025, and scientists are watching how it may help…
Scientists say the seasonal crop fires are burning later in the day than in previous years.
A potent atmospheric river delivered intense rainfall to western Washington, triggering flooding and mudslides.
The right combination of conditions allowed this distinctive low cloud to form in California’s Central Valley for weeks.
An astronaut photographed moonglint shimmering across the sea surface and the bright clusters of Florida’s cities at night.
The volcano in Hawaii is one of the most active in the world, and NASA tech makes it easier for…
Puffs of low-level clouds mingle with the volcanic terrain of Candlemas and Vindication islands in the remote South Atlantic.
A rare tropical cyclone dropped torrential rains on the Indonesian island, fueling extensive and destructive floods.
In its first documented eruption, the Ethiopian volcano sent a plume of gas and ash drifting across continents.
From Alaska’s Saint Elias Mountains to Pakistan’s Karakoram, glaciers speed up and slow down with the seasons.
Satellites have tracked development over the decades as a small city in southern Nigeria grew to more than 2 million…
The ancient walls, ramparts, and ditches that wind through this Nigerian city are the longest known earthworks of the pre-mechanical…
In southeastern Libya, Jabal Arkanū’s concentric rock rings stand as relics of past geologic forces that churned beneath the desert.
The tart berry and state fruit brings a red pop to holiday feasts—and to satellite images of Midwestern marshlands.
Over millions of years, water has sculpted limestone in northern Vietnam into an extraordinary karst landscape full of towers, cones,…
Hurricane Melissa left the island nation’s forests brown and battered, but they won’t stay that way for long.
Satellites are helping land managers track ecological shifts as reserves reconnect and landscapes return to a more natural state.
Late-season reds and browns swept across the Ozark Highlands in the south-central U.S.
The volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula continues to erupt after centuries of quiescence.
A multi-year drought has put extra strain on farmers and water managers in the Middle Eastern country.
