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Temperature records toppled across the central and southern U.S. as the autumnal equinox approached.
At a time of year when dust storm activity winds down, a plume of dust blanketed parts of the West…
A powerful eruption from the Indonesian volcano lofted ash into the atmosphere, disrupting thousands of flights and degrading air quality.
With austral winter nearing its end, clouds cleared for a satellite view of volcanic activity in the remote South Atlantic.
The Pacific was buzzing with storms while the Atlantic was notably quiet.
With Indonesia gripped by drought, fires are smoldering on the surface and underground.
Rainfall deficits and high temperatures have created unusually dry conditions and have spurred water shortages on much of the tropical…
Back-to-back winter storms in August 2026 brought snowfall to northern Chile, from the Andes to near the Pacific coast.
A series of heat waves in 2026 is breaking records and taking a toll in Europe.
Drought in the Rio Grande basin contributed to New Mexico’s largest reservoir dwindling to its lowest level in decades.
The powerful storm delivered extreme rainfall and damaging winds to the state, passing the Island of Hawaiʻi as a category…
NASA aircraft are sampling smoke lofted high into the atmosphere by one of the most formidable cloud types in the…
From the International Space Station, astronauts photographed Mount Hood and Mount Rainier as wildfire smoke spread across the Pacific Northwest…
Wildland fires in early August 2026 pushed air quality to unhealthy levels, destroyed hundreds of structures, and triggered mandatory evacuations…
Raging wildfires disrupted summer in Spain and France amid sweltering heat waves and prolonged drought.
Lightning storms have ignited dozens of fires in central and eastern Oregon.
Brown carbon, emitted by wildland fires and tracked over the span of a week in July 2026, worsened air quality…
Canadian wildfires sent plumes of smoke streaming over Ontario, Quebec, and parts of the U.S. Midwest and Northeast.
