(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...

Image: SALT Web-Cam Sutherland (Click on image for larger view.)

(Click on image for larger view.) On June 10, 2011, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter angled its orbit 65* to the west, allowing the spacecraft's cameras to capture a dramatic sunrise view of the moon's Tycho crater. A very popular target with amat...

Image: Wikipedia (Click on image for larger view.0 (Reuters) - A long-dormant volcano has erupted in Eritrea after a series of earthquakes and sent a 13.5 km plume of ash into the air, according to the Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC). The volcano...

Image: A tractor transports visitors to the Dead Sea through an area that was previously covered in water in Ein Gedi, Israel Ariel Schalit / AP EIN BOKEK, Israel — The Dead Sea is dying, goes the conventional wisdom: The water level of the fabl...

What a beautiful site after months of drought! Cause for celebration!! Images: Gawie (Click on images for larger view.)

Gordon Richardson writes: Now that the clouds have lifted, this morning's Terra Modis overpass (Sat 11th) gives a spectacular view of the snow on the Multi and Drakensberg peaks. Image: Modis Rapid Response System (Click on image for larger view.)

Image: Denzil Henry East Coast Radio writes: A listener from Anstey's on Durban's Bluff sent in this photo taken at about 10.30am. We'd like your expertise. Is it a water spout or something else? E-mail us on [email protected] SAWDIS: East Coas...

Images received via Mossel Bay Municipality  (Click on images for larger view.)

Images: Sleet in Belfast this morning. Kind regards and keep warm. Obs Heather and Kevin Harvey (Forwarded by Charl Strydom.)