Coral Crisis: Massive Accumulation of Heat Stress in Summer 2023
The seas around Florida, Cuba, and the Bahamas saw large accumulations of heat stress beginning in summer 2023, with implications for the health of coral…
The seas around Florida, Cuba, and the Bahamas saw large accumulations of heat stress beginning in summer 2023, with implications for the health of coral…
The Alaskan tundra puts on a fleeting display of color before the snows fall and bears hibernate. As summer turns to fall in Alaska, days…
The cultural and political hub of El Salvador lies along the Central American Volcanic Arc. Along the Pacific coastline of Central America, a string of…
A few years after a fresh influx of water raised its levels, Lake Urmia has nearly gone dry. After rapidly growing in volume just a…
An oblique-angle photo taken from above the Middle East captures the Moon peeking over Earth’s atmospheric limb. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured…
After passing the Antarctic Peninsula, Iceberg D-30A grazed the much smaller Clarence Island, spun around, and drifted north. In June 2021, the U.S. National Ice…
Two decades of satellite measurements show that the sea surface is shading toward green. The deep-blue sea is turning a touch greener. While that may…
In September, low water levels made it more challenging to ship goods down the river and allowed a wedge of saltwater to move upstream. Months…
Satellite data shows that Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent on September 19, 2023. Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum…
Satellite data shows that Antarctic sea ice reached its lowest maximum extent on record on September 10, 2023. Antarctic sea ice reached its lowest maximum…
Scientists have some ideas about what might have caused a thin arc that spanned a fjord in Western Greenland. In summer, the fjords around Greenland…
Cities and towns darkened after a cyclone unleashed torrential flooding along the country’s coast. On September 10, 2023, a powerful storm brought heavy rain to…
The icy landscape high in the Andes is dotted with colorful glacial lakes and weathered rock. While in orbit over the Andes Mountains in southern…
Flash floods in the port city destroyed roads and swept neighborhoods out to sea. Heavy rain from a cyclone in the Mediterranean inundated cities along…
Unusual late-season melting in Greenland turned the glacier’s surface into a mishmash of ice, firn, melt, and dirt. Every year from around May to early…
Communities in the High Atlas Mountains were among the hardest hit after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake caused widespread damage. A powerful earthquake has devasted communities…
June, July, and August were 0.23°C (0.41°F) warmer than any other summer in NASA’s record. The summer of 2023 was Earth’s hottest since global records…
The major storm fluctuated in intensity as it approached the U.S. East Coast. On September 12, 2023, Hurricane Lee continued its slow west-northwest trajectory across…