September 9, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) Climate and fire scientists have long anticipated that fires in the U.S. West would grow larger, more…
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September 9, 2020 Wildfires continue to rage in the western United States. On September 9, 2020, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra…
September 7, 2020 Intense heat, winds, and drought have fueled smoky infernos in the western United States. Though serious fires burned in California and other…
September 3, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution version.) Super Typhoon Haishen is poised to hit the Korean Peninsula this weekend, making it the third typhoon…
September 2, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution version.) In the late morning of September 2, 2020, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra…
August 26, 2020. (Click image for high–resolution view.) Government meteorologists issued unusually dire warnings as a large hurricane neared the U.S. Gulf Coast on August…
August 21, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) On August 21, 2020, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite captured natural-color imagery of…
August 15, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view. See image below for detail view.) Nearly every summer, colorful blooms of phytoplankton flourish in the Baltic…
August 16, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) On August 16, 2020, temperatures in Southern California approached the highest levels ever reliably recorded on Earth.…
August 20, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) After more than 10,000 lightning strikes in 72 hours, hundreds of wildfires erupted across California, particularly in…
August 14, 2020. (Click image for detailed view.) On August 18, 2020, several fires exploded across northern California and scorched thousands of acres. The Visible…
May 6, 2020. (Click image for full view.) In 2001, Dubai started construction on three large artificial islands in the Persian Gulf shaped like palm…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Australian meteorologists took note recently when not one—but two—vast bands of clouds stretched from the eastern Indian Ocean to Australia,…
March 16, 2020 Two of Earth’s most colorful upper atmospheric phenomena, aurora and airglow, met just before dawn in this photo shot by an astronaut…
July 29 – August 5, 2020. (Click image for full view.) On August 4, 2020, a devastating explosion rocked the port area around Beirut, Lebanon.…
September 12, 2019. (Click image for full view.) This photograph, taken by an astronaut from the International Space Station (ISS), captures the bright urban lights…
July 30 – August 6, 2020 Abnormally warm temperatures have spawned an intense fire season in eastern Siberia this summer. Satellite data show that fires…
August 2, 2020. (Click image for full, detailed view.) On August 2, 2020, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 17 (GOES-17) acquired this image of the…
July 21, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) Because the atmosphere is about 100 times thinner and less dense than on Earth, weather on Mars…
April 2, 2020. (Click image for detailed view.) The winding Mississippi River historically has been used to define many state lines in the United States.…