Image: Google Maps (Click on image for larger view.) Two women are feared dead after being swept by strong waves on the Indian Ocean coast of Kwale village in Mkuranga district, Coast region yesterday. Confirming the incident yesterday, Coast regiona...

Photo: Amantha Perera/IRIN More than 30,000 Sri Lankans lost their lives on 26 December 2004 COLOMBO, 26 December 2011 (IRIN) - Seven years after a devastating tsunami struck Sri Lanka, more work still needs to be done to secure an effective early-war...

An intense hail storm in the Ladysmith area has damaged vehicles and made for treacherous driving conditions along the N3. Motorist Roger Ramseier, who was en route to Bethlehem when the storm hit yesterday afternoon, says he took the video and photo ...

NASA's Terra satellite flew over Tropical Storm Washi on Dec. 16 at 01:45 UTC and captured this visible image of the storm. The western half of Washi was already over Minandao in the southern Philippines. Credit: Credit: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Respon...

(Click on image for larger view.) Floods struck northeastern New South Wales, Australia, starting in late November 2011. Over the next few weeks, floods traveled downstream, toward the west and southwest, along tributaries of the Darling River. The ...

Several people, including a one-year-old baby, had to be rescued from their Durban homes on the 28 November 2011. Families in four homes on Randles Road were stuck in waist-deep water after a heavy downfall, Netcare911 spokesperson Chris Botha said. ...

(Click on image for larger view.) The sight of shafts of light streaming down from the heavens through a layer of clouds has provided many an artist, scientist, and philosopher with inspiration. Atmospheric scientists refer to this phenomenon as

Image: Paula Bronstein (Getty Images) The severe flooding that has claimed the lives of over 370 lives in less than three months, is now closing in on the capital Bangkok, as the authorities struggle to divert as much water as possible around the cit...

(Click on image for larger view.) NASA’s newest Earth-observing satellite soared into space aboard a Delta II rocket after liftoff on October 28, 2011. The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project, o...

During every minute of the day, every day, a volcano is erupting somewhere on Earth. Actually, it’s more like a dozen. Or two. Satellites capture much of this activity, and we try to highlight as many eruptions as possible, but for one reason or anot...

Ozone in Earth's stratosphere at an altitude of approximately 12 miles (20 kilometers) in mid-March 2011, near the peak of the 2011 Arctic ozone loss. Red colors represent high levels of ozone, while purple and grey colors (over the north polar re...

(Click on image for larger view.) Dust from the Arabian Peninsula lingered over the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea on September 29, 2011. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite took this picture ...

(Click on image for larger view.) Rain from Typhoon Nesat (called Pedring in the Philippines) caused widespread flooding in the Philippines on September 27 and 28, 2011. The image, made from the Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis, which is ba...

(Click on images for larger view.) In September 2011, two episodes of heavy rain in a 15-day period inundated the Indian state of Orissa. On September 26, 2011, the Hindustan Times reported that the second period of heavy rainfall claimed 17 lives,...

(Click on images for larger view.) Flood waters lingered in southern Pakistan in late September 2011, where heavy rains inundated Balochistan and Sindh Provinces. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite ...

Image: SAWS (Lightning map 14 September 2011 -  07h50 SAST) Spring and Summer is the peak season for one of the nation's deadliest weather phenomena— lightning. But don't be fooled, lightning strikes year round. Hundreds of people are perm...

(Click on images for larger view.) Jewel-like green against the desert of central Asia, the Aral Sea has a long history of change. Over thousands of years, the lake has filled and dried, its fate linked to the flow of the rivers that feed it, par...

(Click on image for larger view.) Floods lingered along the James River in South Dakota in early August 2011. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured the top image on August 1, 2011. For compari...

(Click on image for larger view.) 192 fires burned throughout the Russian Federation on July 28, 2011. Most of the fires burned in the northwest, but the fires in the Far East were far more impressive from space. This image, taken by the Moderate ...

A picture of BAM Island almost above the epicenter of this earthquake. The island looks uninhabited, but a reader reports of 2,000 islanders and also GDACS and USGS reports are talking about hundreds of people living here. These people have experie...

These pictures was captured this morning, 26 July 2011, at Volksrus. The picture was send in by Gert Botha, Hamnet, Secunda. (Click on images for larger view.)

(Click on image for larger view.) From June to September each year, monsoon rains fall in southern Asia. The rains are crucial to agriculture, but at the same time pose hazards to crops, homes, and people. Floods often submerge fields, destroy bui...

The pleasant weather over the past few weeks in the Western Cape is to change rapidly in the next few days with forecasts of heavy rain, high swells, cold weather and even the possibility of snow on the high mountains of the Western /Eastern Cape and K...

(Click on image for larger view.) Dust blew over parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran in mid-July 2011. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image on July 15, 2011. The t...

Each week the State of Flux features images of different locations on planet Earth, showing change over time periods ranging from centuries to days. Some of these effects are related to climate change, some are not. Some document the effects of urbaniz...

(Click on images for larger view.) A massive dust storm blew over Algeria in mid-July 2011, just days after another storm in the same area. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured a natural-col...

(Click on images for larger view.) Ordinarily, flashes of white rise from salt pans in South America’s Atacama Desert. But on July 7, 2011, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite acquired theses ...

On 5 July 2011 at around 07:00 we had severe storm,rain and hail wind and yes snow. This is the first time that I myself see snow in East London. We had at least 3 to 4 inches of rain in a matter of a half an hour.This would be the ...

Drought has forced thousands of Somali families to migrate to urban areas (file photo) Photo: UNDP NAIROBI, 4 July 2011 (IRIN) - With 100 heads of cattle, Halima Omar's family were considered fairly well off in their community in Da'ara village in Soma...

(Click on image for larger view.) One day after multiple dust plumes blew through Iraq, dust hovered over the Persian Gulf. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image on J...