In early November 2023, sky watchers across North America and Europe posted photos on social media of dazzling displays of the northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis. 

City lights shine all night amid the bustling traffic, businesses and neighborhoods of Southern California, one of the most populated areas that mountain lions call home.

Greenland’s coastal glaciers are melting twice as rapidly as they were two decades ago, according to a study warning the glaciers have entered a new phase of rapid retreat.

In the summer of 2023, vast areas of Canada’s forests were on fire. Many of these fires were ignited by lightning. 

Some barnacles are ‘morphing’ to protect themselves from predatory warm-water sea snails, which are expanding into their territory due to climate change.

Such high-tide flooding that inundates roads and buildings along the west coast of the Americas tends to be uncommon outside of El Niño years, but that could change by the 2030s.

U.S. struck with record 25 separate billion-dollar disasters so far this year.

2023 shaping up to be warmest year in NOAA's global climate record.

In August 2023, Hurricane Hilary made landfall in northern Mexico and soaked the Baja California peninsula, Southern California, and Nevada with rain. 

Scientists have learned over the years that when aquatic organisms such as zooplankton become exposed to microplastics, they eat poorly.