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During El Niño, a cascade of fires across the tropics begins in equatorial Asia and continues in the central and eastern Amazon.
The ice reached its third-lowest maximum extent since satellite observations began.
Satellite records show Arctic sea ice covering less of the ocean in both winter and summer.
After days of torrential rain, the river rose to record-breaking levels in parts of Nepal and India.
Several ingredients came together off the Pacific coast of Mexico to generate one of the strongest storms the eastern Pacific basin has ever seen.
With Indonesia gripped by drought, fires are smoldering on the surface and underground.
NASA aircraft are sampling smoke lofted high into the atmosphere by one of the most formidable cloud types in the sky—towering, smoke-infused pyrocumulonimbus.
Seaweed composing the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt hit near-record levels in June 2026, with the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of America both reaching all-time highs.
Lightning storms have ignited dozens of fires in central and eastern Oregon.
In fire-prone ecosystems in Australia's Northern Territory, prescribed burns are lit to minimize the severity of fires later in the season.
