Sprawling Gifford Fire Scorches California: The fast-growing blaze charred more than 100,000 acres in the span of a week 🧪

Quabbin Reservoir is one of the largest unfiltered drinking water supplies in the United States. It supplies water to nearly 2.7 million people in the Greater Boston area, as well as three towns in Western Massachusetts 🧪

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this long-exposure photo of brilliant illumination coming from airglow, lightning, and stars

Bloom Time in the Barents Sea: Arctic waters near Norway’s Bear Island teemed with tiny plant-like organisms that painted the seas turquoise-blue and green 🧪

Wildfire Sweeps Through Southern France: The Aude fire rapidly burned around 16,000 hectares in August 2025, becoming the country’s largest fire since 1949 🧪

Winds whipped across the coast of central and southern Peru on July 31, 2025, lofting dust and sand particles into the air. Giant plumes of the particles blew inland, where they turned skies orange, reduced visibility, and degraded air quality

Decades of retreat at the Steller Glacier in Alaska have left Berg Lake with new plumbing Satellites have observed the glacier’s thinning and retreat since the 1970s Satellite imagery now reveals that this retreat has reworked the outflow of Berg Lake, which fills and drains annually

The Monroe Canyon fire in central Utah experienced rapid growth during dry, windy days in late July 2025, creating hazy skies throughout the region

Based on firsthand accounts, Echimamish river’s flow splits from a beaver-flooded area west of Painted Stone Portage. The river connects with the Nelson River to the west and the Hayes River to the east, which both empty into Hudson Bay about 300 miles away.

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of the Mutnovsky Volcano, located on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula

Rare Snowfall in the Atacama Desert: Snow infrequently falls in the high plains of northern Chile. And when it does, it doesn’t last for long 🧪 📷 June 26 2025, the day after the storm 📷 July 17, 2025

The Colorado River Basin has lost nearly the equivalent of an underground Lake Mead 💧🌎⚠️ 📰 A recent study finds the basin lost about 27.8 million acre-feet ❗ of groundwater from 2002-2024. About 68% of the losses occurred in the lower part of the basin, which lies mostly in Arizona 🧪

In the early morning hours of July 20, 2025, fountains of lava began pouring continuously from vents in the summit caldera of Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano 🧪 This eruptive episode was the 29th in a stretch of periodic activity in Halema‘uma‘u Crater that began on December 23, 2024.

Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, a volcano on the Indonesian island of Flores, erupted on July 7, 2025, propelling a column of ash 18 kilometers (11 miles) into the air. This latest event is a continuation of eruptive activity occurring at Laki-Laki since late 2023 🧪

Long ago, Santorini Island had a typical conical shape with steep sides. But a series of eruptions over hundreds of thousands of years emptied the Greek island’s magma chamber, which eventually collapsed & created a crater-shaped depression called a caldera, which can still be seen in modern day 🧪

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of Gas Hure Lake located in Qinghai, a northwestern Chinese province on the Tibetan Plateau

The Disappearance of Lac Rouge: The cause of Lac Rouge’s emptying was yet to be confirmed, according to the Cree First Nation of Waswanipi. However, it may have been related to snowmelt, recent rainfall, and changes to the land from wildland fires🧪

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of Owens Lake, CA. Settlers established Lone Pine, a gold and silver mining town in the 1860s “The Roundup,” “The Lone Ranger,” “How the West Was Won,” “Iron Man,” are among the 400+ movies filmed in this region.

The astronomical start to summer was difficult to ignore for tens of millions of people in the United States in 2025. New temperature records were set in Minnesota, Maryland, Vermont, and many places in between. 🧪

A Booming Bloom Returns to the Gulf of Maine: A type of phytoplankton called coccolithophores, less common in waters off New England since around 2010, made an impressive appearance in summer 2025 🧪

Alaska’s Iliamna Volcano last erupted in 1867. Once every couple of years, however, the mountain still rumbles. Its murmurs tend not to be signs of volcanic unrest but rather the signature of avalanches large enough to register on nearby seismic and infrasound instruments 🧪

Lake Eyre: Floodwaters that have coursed through the outback for months are now replenishing a vast inland sea on a scale not seen in decades 🧪

This island group off mainland Mozambique is a dynamic marine and island ecosystem shaped by tides and currents. Below the water’s surface, areas of sand, seagrass meadows, coral reefs, and other shallow marine areas appear as shades of tan, green, and turquoise; deeper waters are darker blue🧪

Sea ice in the Amundsen gulf, the gateway to the Northwest Passage, is fracturing and drifting westward into the Beaufort Sea. Sea ice began its annual cycle of melting and breakup in late March 2025🧪

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this detailed image of the Egyptian coastline. Some of the most vivid features in the photo are the salt ponds that now occupy the bed of Lake Mariut. The varied colors of the ponds are related to specific salt-loving organisms🧪

On May 16, 2025, a deadly tornado tore across three counties in Kentucky It was one of the strongest tornadoes ever recorded in the area, according to the NWS office in Jackson KY The NWS assessment found that the path of damage extended nearly 56 miles & reached a maximum width of nearly a mile 🧪

All water in a drainage basin should, in theory, flow toward larger rivers but the reverse is true for The Casiquiare This confounding waterway is one of several in the Americas described in a recent paper as seeming to “defy the rules” of hydrology 🧪

Fires in Alberta forced some oil companies to evacuate workers and temporarily pushed a portion of the province’s oil production offline 🧪 On May 30, 2025, Landsat 8 captured this image of charred lands around oil infrastructure near Conklin

Canadian wildfires produced smoke plumes so vast they were visible from deep space and caused hazy skies as far south as Florida 🧪 Left: NASA’s EPIC 🛰️ Right: NOAA-21 🛰️

Unusually warm sea surface temperatures lingered for months in the waters around the U.K. and Ireland in Spring 2025 Sea surface temperatures in some areas reached up to 4 degrees Celsius (7 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than normal

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of the Mississippi River while orbiting over Louisiana

Volcán Poás, one of the most active in Costa Rica sustains a hot, ultra-acidic crater lake that shares similarities to Martian environments The Poás system may be hostile to most forms of life we are familiar with. But for a microbe adapted to acid, heat, and toxic metals, it’s paradise 🧪

The Serra de Caldas is a monolithic oval-shaped plateau covered entirely by Cerrado, a biologically rich savanna and grassland ecosystem The Cerrado is the 2nd largest biome in S. America, home to thousands of plant, bird, reptile, and mammal species🧪

The Manila American Cemetery and Memorial is the final resting place of more than 16,859 American servicemen and women, most of whom lost their lives in New Guinea and the Philippines during World War II

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of Roanoke, Virginia, a city in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Urbanization in Zanzibar City, Tanzania: Built-up areas have increased in and around the city from 6,550 acres in 1995 (left) to 28,187 acres in 2024 (image), accompanied by a 26% decrease in coastal forests and other vegetation to the north, east, and south of the city 🧪

A Smoky Start to Saskatchewan’s Fire Season Still early in the fire season, satellites in mid-May observed intense blazes and towering plumes of smoke 🧪

Warm temperatures and spring rains unleashed a surge of water that inundated homes and displaced hundreds of people in northern Kazakhstan 🧪

Severe weather battered New Zealand’s east coast in late April and early May, bringing damaging winds and heavy rain to low-lying areas and late-autumn snowfall to the mountains 🧪 Left: March 2025, Right: May 2025

After a slow-moving weather system swamped the Midwest U.S. in early April 2025, many rivers’ water levels soared to near-historic levels. Arkansas was particularly hard hit. “This is one of the largest, most dramatic, and long-lasting agricultural floods we’ve seen in Arkansas in decades” 🧪

The Jones Road fire has grown into one of the largest fires New Jersey has seen in decades In the natural-color scene, thick smoke obscures the fire’s mark on the land below. The burned area is evident in the false-color image showing shortwave infrared, near infrared, and visible light 🧪

Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park: The park’s 34 islands and peninsulas support a range of ecosystems, including salt marshes, sandy beaches, seagrass beds, tidal pools, mudflats, grasslands, and hardwood forests 🧪

The peaks in Guadalupe Mountains National Park are made of a well-preserved fossil reef formed more than 250 million years ago The cemented accumulation of plant and animal material constitutes a revealing record of aquatic life before a mass extinction event at the end of the Permian 🧪

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of Istanbul, Türkiye, while orbiting over the Black Sea. The Bosporus strait separates Europe and Asia. The continents are linked by three bridges across the strait: one near the northern coast and two within Istanbul 🧪

Cycles of wetting and drying during the Triassic Period are believed to have oxidized, or rusted, sediments across vast areas. The resulting rock layers, commonly referred to as “red beds,” take their color from the mineral hematite 🧪

Windswept dust blanketed southern Iraq and other parts of the Middle East in mid-April 2025. The airborne particles turned skies orange, reduced visibility, and worsened air quality near the ground where people live and breathe 🧪

Sardinia, the second-largest island in the Mediterranean, is home to about 1.6 million people—and nearly double that many sheep 🐑 🧪

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A slow-moving storm system dumped heavy rain across the Midwest and Southeast and fueled major floods along several of Mississippi River’s tributaries in early April 2025 🧪

A rather cloud free day! The colorful North Atlantic waters visible around the archipelago in April 2025 are likely due to a mix of phytoplankton and suspended sediment 🧪