Where sea ice should already be present, there are just vast swaths of open water. The cause: storminess and massive inflows of warmth.
But up in the Arctic, the ironic forecast is for unusual warmth. What's up with this weird pattern of a warm Arctic with cold continents?
If you know any flat-earth types, you might share this with them... Sometimes on a #spacewalk, you just have to take a moment to enjoy the beauty of our planet Earth.
With magma boiling at its peak and swelling its body from within, Mount Agung in Bali, Indonesia has awakened from more than a half century of slumber.
The cloud formations in the photograph above, and those to follow, may look otherworldly, and maybe even a bit ominous.
The NOAA-20 satellite was to be the first of four, but the Trump Administration has sought to delay and massively cut the program In the early morning hours of Saturday, Nov.
With a month and a half to go until year's end, it's looking like 2017 will go down in the books as the warmest on record – that is, among years that received no temperature boost from El Niño.
Will La Niña help bring a warmer or colder winter to your neck of the woods? And will it be wetter or drier?
It has been nine days since Hurricane Maria blasted ashore in Puerto Rico with 150 mile per hour winds, ravaging the entire island and leaving residents without electricity, food and water.
With two months left, more records could fall before we're all done We've known for some weeks now that the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane season has been absolutely brutal.
We've now got yet another worrying sign that human-caused warming is causing the behemoth West Antarctic Ice Sheet to come unglued, threatening to raise sea level by 10 feet over time.
Here we go again? Following a mild and short-lived La Niña episode in 2016/2017, the climatic phenomenon stands a 55 to 60 percent chance of developing once again this fall and winter.
Last month was among the very warmest on record, according to two new analyses – and the heat is very likely to continue.
But despite claims to the contrary, one warmish summer in the Arctic does not repeal the long-term trend of human-caused warming Arctic sea ice has staged something of a short-term turn-around this summer.
As Hurricane Irma continued to churn north over Florida early in the morning of Sept. 11, the Suomi NPP spacecraft passed overhead and sent back this dramatic image.
Hurricane Irma is a true monster, exceeding the size of Florida itself, and threatening to flatten structures throughout the state with extreme winds.
As I'm writing this on Wednesday morning, the eye of Hurricane Irma — a “potentially catastrophic” Category 5 storm – has passed over the islands of Barbuda, Saint Barthelemy and Saint Martin, and was shortly headed for the Virgin Islands.
Smoke from the fires appears to have blown all the way across North America and more than half way across the Atlantic As of this afternoon, 77 large fires are burning across 1.4 million acres in eight western U.S.
As Harvey has lumbered to the northeast, the clouds have dissipated, finally giving satellites a clear view of what the 1,000-year flooding event in southeast Texas looks like.
Here at ImaGeo, one of my main goals is to share compelling imagery about the science of our planet. Even when the imagery is the main focus of a post, I've ordinarily included a fair amount of explanatory text.