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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.
Satellites observed striking upper-atmosphere phenomena generated by an intensifying tropical cyclone.
Something is brewing in shallow waters offshore of Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia.
Scientists pioneered a new system that combines data from multiple Earth-observing satellites to identify forest clearing up to 100 days earlier than current methods.
