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Hurricane Melissa left the island nation’s forests brown and battered, but they won’t stay that way for long.
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.
Drought in the Nueces River basin is reducing reservoir levels, leaving residents and industry in the Corpus Christi area facing…
Cyclone Gael’s cloud-filled eye was offshore of the east coast of Madagascar on February 6, 2009.
A plume of dust swept over Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia on October 16, 2008, as the Moderate Resolution Imaging…
The thin plume of dust that hung over the Arabian Sea on October 15, 2008, intensified as the day wore…
A thin plume of dust hovered over the Arabian Sea on October 15, 2008, as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer…
A massive dust storm swept through the western half of the Sahara Desert on October 10, 2008. The Moderate Resolution…
Haze hugged the Himalaya in early October 2008. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this…
The tropical cyclones are close enough in proximity that they may influence one another.
In late September 2025, a continued lack of rainfall led to stunted vegetation, lowered water levels, and prompted early fall…
Hillsides in Alaska’s interior showed their changing colors ahead of the autumnal equinox.
Astronauts and much of Earth’s population had a chance to view a coppery “Blood Moon” during a total lunar eclipse…
Another major tributary reached the Australian outback lake in 2025, extending the months-long flood of the vast, ephemeral inland sea.
Smoke filled river valleys in northeastern Washington and parts of British Columbia.
Heavy rains and flooding across the country since June 2025 have displaced millions of people, devastated infrastructure, and submerged farmland.
Satellites have observed episodes of dust swirling across the basin in western China for decades.
