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It will be the fifth storm to hit Louisiana this year, and the eleventh to hit the continental United States. Read More… Source: Read More: Hurricane Zeta Arrives on the Gulf Coast

After getting pummeled by three deadly storms in October, Vietnam prepares for another one. Read More… Source: Read More: Molave Heads Toward Vietnam

The blaze grew 140,000 acres in 24 hours to become the second largest fire in Colorado history. Read More… Source: Read More: East Troublesome Fire Spreads to the Rockies

A mix of uplifting salt and other sedimentary and metamorphic rocks make for colorful landscapes in the Persian Gulf. Read More… Source: Read More: Iran’s Rainbow Island

Researchers find that ice caps on the mountains of Pluto are made of methane, but develop through an opposite process from that on Earth. Read More… Source: Read More: Snowy and Icy Peaks with Very Different Origins

Trees have long been cherished here for timber and for the colors they bring to “the Fall Rhapsody.” Read More… Source: Read More: Fall Color in Ottawa

Millions of people in the state live in low-lying coastal areas where land subsidence is exacerbating the risks of sea level rise. Read More… Source: Read More: California’s Rising and Sinking Coast

The Cameron Peak and August Complex fires have punctuated a year of natural drama in the American West. Read More… Source: Read More: Record-Setting Fires in Colorado and California

Long blue shadows on the snow portend frigid days ahead in this far eastern corner of Siberia. Read More… Source: Read More: Winter is Coming

As springtime arrives in the Andes, winter snow melts to provide an important water source for local communities. Read More… Source: Read More: Snow Melts in the Andes

Raised beaches around the bay in Canada’s Ontario Province show how the landscape responded after the last ice age. Read More… Source: Read More: Rebounding in Hudson Bay

Through Italy’s Smart Road Decree, the city was chosen as a test site for autonomous driving vehicles. Read More… Source: Read More: Turin Lights the Way Forward

The site in Western Australia holds one of the country’s largest and oldest iron ore mines. Read More… Source: Read More: Mining for Iron at Mount Whaleback

For the second year in a row, fires have been widespread and persistent in the South American country. Read More… Source: Read More: Fierce Fires in Bolivia

Analyzing subtle differences in near-infrared and shortwave-infrared light from the landscape, scientists can provide some measure of the severity of wildfire burns. Read More… Source: Read More: Assessing California Fire Scars

Farms in the historic Oltenia province display a compelling array of shapes and sizes. Read More… Source: Read More: Romania’s Patchwork of Farm Fields

A colorful mixture of dissolved organic matter and sediments help trace the sea’s otherwise invisible currents and eddies. Read More… Source: Read More: A Lush Laptev Palette

When undular bores ripple through the atmosphere, they leave remarkable patterns in the clouds. Read More… Source: Read More: The Undulations of Wave Clouds

An astronaut captured distant and overhead views of a long plume blowing from Iraq across the Middle East. Read More… Source: Read More: Perspectives on a Dust Storm

Australia’s Shark Bay contains the largest beds of seagrasses in the world, as well as some of the oldest lifeforms on Earth. Read More… Source: Read More: Sharks, Seagrass, and Stromatolites

After making landfall on the Yucatan Peninsula, the category 2 storm was strengthening over warm waters. Read More… Source: Read More: Hurricane Delta Aims for the U.S. Gulf Coast

The diffuse orange and green bands of light are caused by molecules in the atmosphere that have been energized by absorbing ultraviolet radiation from the Sun. Read More… Source: Read More: Airglow Over the Indian Ocean

A nocturnal low-level jet stream brings large thunderstorms across the U.S. Midwest each summer. Read More… Source: Read More: Thunderstorms Rumble over the Great Plains

Landsat images helped convince researchers that a slumping mountainside overlooking Barry Arm fjord could pose a tsunami hazard. Read More… Source: Read More: The Specter of a Mega-Tsunami in Alaska