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After decades of decline, this ecologically significant type of forest is making a comeback.

Blanket bogs in the Scottish Highlands store vast amounts of carbon.

Rounds of heavy rain in the U.S. Southwest flooded rivers and rapidly raised New Mexico’s second-largest reservoir.

Low clouds trace the branching valleys of the Appalachian Plateau and the Cumberland River, then burn off by afternoon.

The ozone hole ranked seventh largest by area in 48 years of monitoring, but it was not as deep as other large holes on record.

The San Juan River has carved deep, improbably curvy meanders into the desert landscape.

The third-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea exposes an ancient piece of the ocean floor and hosts a clowder of cats.

With hardly a cloud in sight, astronauts had a sweeping view of nighttime lights in the U.S. Midwest.

Super Typhoon In-fa developed an unusually large eye, and the remnants of Typhoon Champi transitioned into an extratropical storm that targeted Alaska.

Amid the warm hues of fall foliage, Pine Creek Gorge forms a deep scar in the Allegheny Plateau.

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 remote island’s underwater shelf.

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 sharper focus.

Fall color covers the forested slopes of Bieszczady National Park, while patches of polonina, a type of high-mountain meadow, have turned tan.

High-definition images of nighttime lights show where the hurricane knocked out power along the Florida Panhandle and how quickly the lights came back.

During El Niño, a cascade of fires across the tropics begins in equatorial Asia and continues in the central and eastern Amazon.

Though it remained offshore, the storm lashed coastal areas with high winds and flooding—and produced remarkable rippling patterns in the upper atmosphere.

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 Plains.

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 country’s south.

After days of torrential rain, the river rose to record-breaking levels in parts of Nepal and India.

Surrounded by wetlands, Manitoba's northernmost farmland near The Pas turns from green to brown over the 2026 growing season.

Hurricanes Polo and Nolo sent destructive effects ashore amid an active season in the northeastern and central Pacific.

Scientists captured rare observations of an ephemeral pileus cloud hovering over a smoke-infused cloud that rose above a wildfire in Montana.

A new map of the terrain beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet links hundreds of valleys that previous maps missed or left fragmented.

Several ingredients came together off the Pacific coast of Mexico to generate one of the strongest storms the eastern Pacific basin has ever seen.

A low-lying cloud layer brought autumn ambience to western Washington and Oregon, while mountainous areas near the coast remained above the pall.

Carpets of wildflowers burst from arid, ochre-colored land in Western Australia following winter rains.

While the sea ice melt season has lengthened dramatically in most of the satellite era, the trend unexpectedly stabilized around 2010.

Snow drought and unusually warm temperatures in the Colorado Basin in 2026 helped drive down reservoir water storage in the U.S. West.

Temperature records toppled across the central and southern U.S. as the autumnal equinox approached.

'Scuse me while some charged particles kiss the sky.

An amateur astronomer scouting online satellite maps for campsites in Quebec found an impact crater instead.

Reds, yellows, and oranges are already sweeping across tundra landscapes in Nunavut.

Mexico’s second-largest metropolitan area borders on folded rock layers of the Sierra Madre Oriental.

At a time of year when dust storm activity winds down, a plume of dust blanketed parts of the West African nation and its neighbors.

A powerful eruption from the Indonesian volcano lofted ash into the atmosphere, disrupting thousands of flights and degrading air quality.

Layers of sedimentary rock that jut from the Soledad Basin at surprising angles have long enthralled television and film producers, including the team behind Star Trek.

With austral winter nearing its end, clouds cleared for a satellite view of volcanic activity in the remote South Atlantic.

The Pacific was buzzing with storms while the Atlantic was notably quiet.