Gaylord, May 30, 2021 Gaylord, June 2, 2022 Tornado Scars Northern Michigan Satellite imagery shows the line of damage extending through Gaylord, Michigan. Gaylord, a…
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May 29, 2022 Bezymianny, a stratovolcano in Russia’s Far East, ejected a towering plume that streaked the snow with dark ash. A stratovolcano, also known…
Capitol Reef National Park in south-central Utah. May 2, 2022. In the Utah desert, the red rocks, cliffs, and canyons of this nautically named national…
Iceberg A-68A thickness. 2017 – 2021. Researchers recently chronicled the death throes of A-68A, one of the world’s largest-known icebergs. As soon as an iceberg…
May 14, 2022. A plume of discolored water being emitted by Kavachi Volcano. Kavachi Volcano in the Southwest Pacific Solomon Islands—where hammerhead sharks prowl—has entered…
May 21, 2022. Natural color. (Click image for wide, high-resolution view.) The speed and intensity of the Black fire grew quickly, producing a pyrocumulonimbus cloud…
May 16, 2022 At least eight major events in Iraq have darkened skies and sickened people in the past six weeks. Iraq and other countries…
Calf Canyon Fire produces a pyrocumulonimbus cloud. NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color RGB, False Color RGB, and Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images. Credit: MOAA A massive,…
April 15, 2022 Since May 2018, when Kīlauea’s lava lake last drained, the summit crater has filled with water, erupted again, boiled off the water,…
April 24, 2022 The California mountain range alternated between extreme precipitation and none at all this winter. When it comes to mountain snow, the Sierra…
Unnamed island off the Glenzer and Conger ice shelves in East Antarctica. November 15, 1989 – January 9, 2022 An unnamed mound of white off…
Peyto Glacier, 1999-2021. Scientists have been observing Peyto Glacier in Alberta since the 1960s. Peyto Glacier in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada is among the…
April 27, 2022 The hottest March in India on record was followed by more waves of oppressive heat in April, leaving more than a billion…
March 4 – 8, 2022 SeaHawk: The Little Satellite That Could The SeaHawk satellite is both a throwback to a previous era and a glimpse…
2016 2021 The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will increase energy generation and development in Ethiopia, but it may have unwanted consequences for other Nile River…
April 7 – 13, 2022 In the KwaZulu-Natal coastal province, heavy rainfall spurred deadly flooding and landslides. In April 2022, several days of unsettled weather…
February 24, 2022 March 23, 2022 In March 2022, old sea ice crumbled away as new ice formed off the coast of Antarctica’s Marie Byrd…
March 4, 2020 The coastal and oceanic conditions off of northern Peru create a “dreamland for surfers.” The waters off the Pacific coast of northern…
March 17, 2022. (Click image for wide, high-resolution view.) Long-lasting, icy cirrus clouds filled with Saharan dust covered many parts of the continent in March.…
The shelf’s disintegration in March 2022 has reshaped a landscape where coastal glacial ice was once thought to be stable. It is relatively common for…