Urban structures and the city’s Great Mosque stand out amid the hilly, desert landscape of western Saudi Arabia. Read More…
Weather Blog
Highlights of the environment and weather-related photo stories
More and more, mountain snow in the Mount Everest region is vanishing into thin air. Read More…
A small island in Tonga built by an underwater volcano in 2022 has grown larger. Read More…
One frozen, one salty, and hemispheres apart, two very different lakes share a Valentine shape. Read More…
Warm, dry conditions in February 2025 fueled fast-burning fires in the northwestern part of the Australian state. Read More…
Strong winds and high temperatures fueled summer fires in Argentina. Read More…
Scientists are using the DSCOVR satellite to make more frequent measurements of the height of dust over the Atlantic Ocean. Read More…
NASA radar imagery revealed that the active area of a decades-old landslide has grown following periods of heavy rainfall in 2023 and early 2024....
The dormant volcano in northern Iran lies in the Alborz Mountains, which separate the region’s wet coastal lowlands from the deserts toward the south....
