As winter turned to spring, ice cover on the lake diminished to reveal colorful billows of sediment and phytoplankton. Read More…
Weather Blog
Highlights of the environment and weather-related photo stories
The asteroid that smashed into northern Australia and caused the Amelia Creek impact structure transformed mountain ridges in the blast zone. Read More…
Repeated land divisions over centuries have created a complex mosaic of ribbon-like fields in southern Poland. Read More…
A major weather system spawned wind-fueled fires and dust storms in the state before moving east. Read More…
A salt-encrusted landscape surrounds the Colorado River where it empties into the Gulf of California. Read More…
The remote South Sandwich Islands can disrupt passing clouds in ways that shed alternating rows of cloud spirals. Read More…
Torrential rains set off dangerous flash flooding in the Argentinian port city. Read More…
Images bridging four decades show where Switzerland’s largest glacier and its neighbors have been losing ice. Read More…
Clouds parted to reveal fresh lava flows on the slopes of the East African Rift volcano. Read More…

