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The sight of an icy skull-like visage on the Antarctic island could make one’s blood run cold.
The first named storm of the North Indian Ocean’s cyclone season made landfall along the coast of Andhra Pradesh.
A national monument since the 1920s, Chiricahua is America's newest national park.
The Antarctic iceberg made a relatively quick exit from the Weddell Sea, only to slow at the edge of a…
A modern satellite makes it possible to pursue the ancient tradition of leaf-peeping in a whole new way.
A 35-year satellite altimetry record lets scientists hold this year's El Niño up against its strongest predecessors.
Emissions on both sides of the island are unusually high as human-set fires spread in a landscape parched by drought.
The powerful low-pressure system formed over the North Atlantic out of the remnants of Hurricane Isaias.
Human activities have become intertwined with how water is distributed across the continents. A new study brings their effects into…
Fall color covers the forested slopes of Bieszczady National Park, while patches of polonina, a type of high-mountain meadow, have…
High-definition images of nighttime lights show where the hurricane knocked out power along the Florida Panhandle and how quickly the…
During El Niño, a cascade of fires across the tropics begins in equatorial Asia and continues in the central and…
Though it remained offshore, the storm lashed coastal areas with high winds and flooding—and produced remarkable rippling patterns in the…
If the thought of extraterrestrial objects crashing into Earth weren’t creepy enough, behold Australia’s Spider Crater.
The ice reached its third-lowest maximum extent since satellite observations began.
Heavy rains since mid-September have caused widespread flooding that has affected millions of people across the country.
Drought and an ailing aquifer were major topics of conversation when NASA scientists visited with farmers in the Texas High…
Satellite records show Arctic sea ice covering less of the ocean in both winter and summer.
Dissolved organic matter and suspended sediment mingle in the southernmost extent of James Bay.
A bright lens of anorthosite, a rock type prevalent on the lunar surface, is cradled within sheared rocks in the…
After days of torrential rain, the river rose to record-breaking levels in parts of Nepal and India.
