Warm seas provide fuel for extreme storms, and can then be cooled by them.

After making landfall in the Polillo Islands and Luzon, the storm strengthened again as it headed toward Vietnam.

A decades-long eruption created this long strip of basalt in the desert in New Mexico.

The summer 2022 extent of Arctic sea ice continued the downward trend under way since the 1980s.

After buffeting Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Bermuda, the hurricane appeared destined to be one of the strongest storms to ever reach the Canadian Maritimes.

Four days after Hurricane Fiona made landfall on the island, citizens were coping with widespread power losses.

On the final day of summer, much of the region's vegetation had already turned from green to autumnal brown and gold.