In early August 2022, flash floods soaked Furnace Creek in Death Valley, the driest place in North America. In just three hours on Aug. 5, 2022, a thousand-year rainfall event dropped 75 percent of the local average annual rainfall, which is just under 2 inches (5 centimeters).
The Niagara Falls at the southern end of Niagara Gorge between the province of Ontario in Canada and the state of New York in the United States as seen by ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti aboard the International Space Station for her Minerva Mission.
Mysterious mounds in the southwest corner of the Amazon Basin were once the site of ancient urban settlements, scientists have discovered.
Utah's Great Salt Lake dropped to its lowest recorded water level in July 2022 as a megadrought persists across the southwest, forcing the fast-growing city nearby to curb its water use.
The Ice Springs lava flow lies about 10 miles (16 kilometers) west of the town of Fillmore, Utah, in the Black Rock Desert.
With air temperatures in excess of 10°C above the average for the time of year in parts of Europe, June 2022 has gone down as a record breaker.
Scientists from the University of California (UC) Merced have digitally mapped the fragile remains of the once-flourishing gold rush ghost town of Bodie, Calif., as part of the Bodie 3D Project.
The Po River, the longest river in Italy, is hitting record low water levels after months without heavy rainfall.
On June 10, 2022, Las Vegas reached a record daily high temperature of 109 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius), and temperatures of the ground surface itself were higher still.
An astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS) took this photograph of Talampaya National Park in the La Rioja Province of Argentina.
