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| | Heat Wave in East Africa
Sweltering temperatures led to power cuts and school closures in South Sudan. |
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| | Arctic Sea Ice Continues to Decline
Sea ice at the top of the planet continued to shrink and thin in 2024, consistent with an ongoing 46-year downward trend. |
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| | The Best Places to View the Total Solar Eclipse
It's not a forecast, but this map of historical cloud cover will tell you how often skies on April 8 have been cloudy in the past. |
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| | Quiet Night Over Eastern Canada
Lights, snow, and clouds brighten this wintery scene of Earth’s northern latitudes. |
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| | Fires in the Appalachians
Smoke billowed from multiple wildfires in the eastern U.S., fueled by dry and windy weather. |
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| | Snowstorm Coats the Rockies
A potent storm pushed snowpack levels above normal across Colorado. |
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| | Shedding Light on a Very Dark River
Recent data from the previously unstudied Ruki River in the Congo Basin shows that it carries a heavy load of carbon in its dark water. |