Early summer water conditions provide fertile territory for phytoplankton blooms.
Published Jul 5, 2015
Smoke from fires in Canada streamed into the United States.
Published Jul 1, 2015
Dozens of uncontrolled fires are burning in western Canada.
Published Jun 29, 2015
A wildfire burning in San Bernardino National Forest spread rapidly due to hot temperatures and dry winds.
Published Jun 26, 2015
A wildfire burning in the San Bernardino National Forest spread rapidly due to hot temperatures and dry winds.
Published Jun 19, 2015
Tropical Storm Bill, the second named storm of the 2015 hurricane season, pushed ashore near Matagorda Island, Texas, on June 16, 2015.
Published Jun 17, 2015
In June 2015, seasonal fires dotted central Africa.
Published Jun 12, 2015
A plume of smoke from wildfires burning in Canada reached the eastern United States.
Published Jun 11, 2015
Known as von Kármán vortices, the remarkable curling patterns can form nearly anywhere that fluid flow is disturbed by an object.
Published Jun 7, 2015
Hurricane Blanca, the earliest second major hurricane on record, churned in the eastern Pacific.
Published Jun 4, 2015
The accumulation of smoke from fires in northern Canada poses air quality concerns.
Published Jun 3, 2015
For the first time since 1980, a volcanic eruption rocked Kuchinoerabu island in southern Japan.
Published Jun 2, 2015
Fires burned in the Northwest Territories, spreading smoke across the region.
Published May 29, 2015
A striking display of high-altitude clouds over the Pacific Ocean are clearly cirrus, but further classification remains elusive.
Published May 29, 2015
The storm weakened as it approached the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands.
Published May 18, 2015
An instrument on the International Space Station observed the winds of the first Atlantic tropical storm of 2015.
Published May 15, 2015
Resuspended ash from Chile's Calbuco Volcano has spread out over Argentina.
Published May 10, 2015
Satellites often detect fires throughout North Korea in spring as farmers prepare for the growing season.
Published Apr 30, 2015
Smoke streams from fires on the Yucatán Peninsula.
Published Apr 28, 2015
A veil of dust darkened skies near Saudi Arabia in April 2015.
Published Apr 24, 2015
The volcano is southern Chile was still emitting ash on April 24, 2015.
Published Apr 24, 2015
After four decades of quiet, the volcano in southern Chile erupted explosively on April 22, 2015.
Published Apr 24, 2015
In early 2015, a new berg broke free from the Getz Ice Shelf.
Published Apr 21, 2015
Smoke from wildfires in Siberia has arrived in the Pacific Northwest.
Published Apr 20, 2015
Though fires are larger and more frequent at the end of the dry season, several fires burned in Western Australia and Northern Territory in April 2015.
Published Apr 9, 2015
Swirls of ice drift in the Southern Ocean off East Antarctica’s Princess Astrid Coast.
Published Apr 6, 2015
Snow cover in late March 2015 was significantly lower than the previous worst year on record. The landscape change is stark since 2010, the last time the region saw average snowfall.
Published Apr 3, 2015
Spring winds bring spring dust storms from northwest China.
Published Apr 2, 2015
The potent storm threatened many small western Pacific islands.
Published Mar 31, 2015
