Press Releases
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Fires Erupt in North American Forests
2025.05.15
Record heat and dry conditions helped stoke several large blazes in Manitoba, Ontario, and Minnesota.
Late-Autumn Storm Lashes New Zealand
2025.05.06
Wintry conditions swept across the mountains, while destructive wind and flooding hit some of the country’s largest cities.
Blackout in Andalusia
2025.05.01
Satellite-derived maps of nighttime lights in southern Spain revealed power outages that persisted across rural areas as the region was recovering from a widespread blackout.
Floods Give Way to a Burst of Desert Life
2025.04.30
Heavy rain in Queensland sent floodwaters coursing through the Australian Outback. Carpets of green emerged in their wake.
Dusty Days Are Here Again for El Paso
2025.04.29
Spring and early summer in the Chihuahuan Desert are dusty, but El Paso and the Borderplex region are experiencing one of their dustiest seasons since the 1930s Dust Bowl.
Signs of the Season in Pine Island Bay
2025.04.16
A major embayment in West Antarctica saw new sea ice growth in autumn 2025 amid older sea ice that had survived the austral summer melt season.
Clouds Hover Over the Alaska Peninsula
2025.04.14
Winds interacted with mountainous terrain to produce long, sharp-edged standing wave clouds.
Flooding Along the Mississippi
2025.04.09
A slow-moving storm system dumped heavy rain across the Midwest and Southeast and fueled major floods along several of the river’s tributaries.
A Curtain of Dust Over the Tarim Basin
2025.04.05
In a seasonal spectacle, a spring dust storm swept through the dry, barren basin in western China.
Floodwaters Surge Through the Australian Outback
2025.04.03
Abundant rain in Queensland overfilled rivers, flooded towns, and submerged livestock grazing lands.
Wildland Fires Char U.S. Southeast Forests
2025.03.29
In late March 2025, several blazes burned in the western Carolinas and northeastern Georgia amid windy, dry conditions.
Spring Thunderstorm Thrashes Louisiana
2025.03.27
The severe weather delivered large hail and damaging wind to parts of the state.
Outbreak of Fire Across South Korea
2025.03.25
Several wildland fires burned amid dry and windy conditions in the country’s southeast.
Dusty Inferno Hits Oklahoma
2025.03.17
A major weather system spawned wind-fueled fires and dust storms in the state before moving east.
Swirling Skies and Melting Icebergs
2025.03.15
The remote South Sandwich Islands can disrupt passing clouds in ways that shed alternating rows of cloud spirals.
Alfred’s Strange and Destructive Journey
2025.03.08
The tropical cyclone took a sharp turn toward Australia’s east coast, bringing flooding and other hazards to an area that rarely sees this type of storm.
Colorful Dust Over Mauritania
2025.03.03
Airborne dust is common over the West African country, but its source can affect the appearance of plumes.
Cyclone Flurry in the Southern Hemisphere
2025.02.28
An unusual number of tropical storms churned across the planet’s southern oceans simultaneously in February 2025.
Whorls of White off Greenland
2025.02.26
Bright snow topped the island’s thick ice sheet, while a swirling display of sea ice hugged the southeast coast.
Not-so Snowy Alaska
2025.02.01
Warmer-than-usual weather brought melting and a lack of snowfall to parts of the state in winter 2024–2025.
Fire in Baja California
2025.01.27
Seasonal Santa Ana winds helped fuel a large fire near Ensenada, Mexico.
Desert Dust Streams from Iran
2025.01.24
Winds lofted dust from the arid landscape across the Gulf of Oman.
Southern States Frozen Over
2025.01.24
A rare winter storm brought frigid temperatures and heavy snow to states from Texas to North Carolina.
Is Fire Activity Declining in Northwestern India?
2025.01.23
Satellites detected unusually low numbers of crop fires in Punjab and Haryana in 2024, and scientists are trying to understand why.
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