Currently, China is experiencing one of the worst periods of air quality in recent history. Residents of Beijing and many other cities in China were warned to stay inside.
NASA's Terra satellite saw the western edges of Typhoon Nesat brushing the eastern Philippines yesterday as Luzon prepares for a landfall today.
In the days and weeks before the monsoon, heat builds over India.
By July 2011, Texas and New Mexico had completed the driest six-month period on record.
In what the interior minister described as a “white earthquake,” heavy snow blanketed parts of Chile in July 2011.
Recent images of the April 27 storm damage path have been captured by NASA's Terra satellite, part of NASA's Earth Observing Satellite system, or EOS.