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December 3, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) Fire season in California generally peaks from May through October. But as global temperatures have risen, so…
August 16, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) Within an expanse of boreal forest in northwestern Alaska, two treeless stretches of sand stand out—the Great…
November 21, 2020. (Click for high-resolution view.) In mid-November, about a month before the start of summer in the southern hemisphere, the Antarctic melting season…
November 21, 2020 A joint U.S.-European satellite, built to monitor global sea levels, lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force…
July 1, 2020 When he first encountered Lituya Bay in 1786, the French explorer Jean-François de Galaup La Pérouse was intrigued by an odd line…
November 5, 2020 Iceberg A-68A made headlines in July 2017 when the Delaware-sized block of ice broke from the Larsen C Ice Shelf on the…
November 16, 2020. (Click image for full view.) Less than two weeks after being hit by category 4 Hurricane Eta, several Central American countries braced…
July 6, 2020 Maui, the second largest island within the Hawaiian Island/Emperor Seamount Chain, hosts one of the largest wind farms in the state. All…
November 11, 2020 On November 11, 2020, Typhoon Vamco thrashed the Philippines with sustained winds of 150 kilometers (90 miles) per hour—the equivalent of a…
October 31, 2020 On November 1, 2020, the strongest storm of the year pummeled the Philippines. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center reported that Super Typhoon…
October 25, 2020 The 2020 summer monsoon season has delivered historic amounts of rain to China. Since June, unusually strong, stationary weather systems have produced…
October 22, 2020 On October 14, 2020, a small fire started north of Hot Sulphur Springs in north-central Colorado. Within ten days, the East Troublesome…
2007 – 2018 Global sea level has been rising at a rate of 0.1 inches (3.3 millimeters) per year in the past three decades. The…
October 8, 2020 The historic 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is not done yet. Hurricane Delta, the 25th named storm of the season, is expected to…
During the summer, the U.S. Great Plains routinely experiences nighttime thunderstorms unlike anywhere else in the country. These large-scale storms—sometimes spanning entire states—account for more…
July 5, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) While passing over northern Utah, an astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS) captured this photograph of…
October 1, 2020. After a brief lull, a late-September heat wave reinvigorated California’s already brutal 2020 fire season. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)…
Bobcat Fire Scorches Southern California – One of the Largest Fires on Record for Los Angeles County
September 21, 2020. (Click image for high resolution version.) After burning more than 180 square miles (460 square kilometers) of the San Gabriel Mountains in…
August 27, 2020 The Pantanal, a vast floodplain in South America, is among the largest wetlands in the world. The mosaic of grasslands, shrublands, forests,…