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A series of heat waves in 2026 is breaking records and taking a toll in Europe.
Drought in the Rio Grande basin contributed to New Mexico’s largest reservoir dwindling to its lowest level in decades.
The powerful storm delivered extreme rainfall and damaging winds to the state, passing the Island of Hawaiʻi as a category…
NASA aircraft are sampling smoke lofted high into the atmosphere by one of the most formidable cloud types in the…
From the International Space Station, astronauts photographed Mount Hood and Mount Rainier as wildfire smoke spread across the Pacific Northwest…
Wildland fires in early August 2026 pushed air quality to unhealthy levels, destroyed hundreds of structures, and triggered mandatory evacuations…
Raging wildfires disrupted summer in Spain and France amid sweltering heat waves and prolonged drought.
Lightning storms have ignited dozens of fires in central and eastern Oregon.
Brown carbon, emitted by wildland fires and tracked over the span of a week in July 2026, worsened air quality…
Canadian wildfires sent plumes of smoke streaming over Ontario, Quebec, and parts of the U.S. Midwest and Northeast.
A ridge of high pressure fueled record-breaking temperatures in Montana, Utah, and Wyoming on July 12, 2026.
Radar data from the NISAR satellite show that La Guaira and nearby areas experienced significant ground displacement from the June…
The third category 5 tropical cyclone of 2026 crossed the U.S. Northern Mariana Islands and Guam before continuing toward Asia.
The blaze burned more than 150 square miles and swept through parts of a ski resort.
Apollo astronauts previewed their roles as lunar field geologists in Alaska’s Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.
The first named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season brought intense rainfall and the threat of flash flooding to…
Drought and water releases drained the Arizona reservoir to levels that have led to widespread fish deaths.
Buoyant volcanic rock fragments from an underwater eruption drifted across the Bismarck Sea and choked island coasts.
