Wildfires
Natural-colour image of southeastern Australia acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. Image by Joshua Stevens.
Images of Southeastern Australia shot by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 on July 24, 2019 (left) and January 1, 2020. Images by Joshua Stevens.
This natural-colour image captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite on September 9 shows thick smoke emerging from fires in Oregon and California. Image by Lauren Dauphin.
Images by Joshua Stevens.
Captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on October 9, this natural-colour image shows smoke from fires in the Chiquitano forest of eastern Bolivia. Images by Lauren Dauphin.
Drought
Images showing the Paraguay River near Asunción captured by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 on October 15, 2017 (left) and October 7, 2020. Images by Lauren Dauphin.
Hurricanes
Image of Hurricane Laura acquired by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) at 2:20 a.m. Central Daylight Time on August 26, 2020. Image by Joshua Stevens.
Cyclones
The storm can be seen in this natural-color image, acquired at 1 p.m. Indian Standard Time on May 20 with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). Image by Joshua Stevens.