Hurricane Polo Reaches Mexico’s Sonora Desert After Losing Much of Its Strength
GUAYMAS, Mexico – September 29, 2026 – Hurricane Polo reached Mexico’s northwestern state of Sonora on Tuesday, making a second…
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A Tale of Hurricanes: An Unusually Quiet Atlantic Meets a Very Active Pacific
September 27, 2026 Every year, by this time in September, people in the United States and across the Caribbean are…
Hurricane Polo Is One of the Pacific’s Most Powerful Storms. California Is Watching the Coast
Hurricane Polo exploded from a tropical depression into one of the most powerful storms ever observed in the eastern Pacific,…
The Giant Tiger Sharks of Norfolk Island
In the remote waters of the South Pacific, scientists have discovered an extraordinary gathering of enormous tiger sharks. But the…
Sydney’s Beach Season Has Arrived Early: Bondi Packed as Australia Welcomes an Unusually Warm Spring
Sydney, Australia – September 2026 It seems we don’t need to wait until December anymore. In Sydney, the beach season…
Scientists Identify New Wild Cat Species in Bolivia After More Than a Century
A small, spotted feline from the Andes is forcing scientists to redraw the evolutionary map of South America’s tiger cats.…
Rio and Miami: Weather Twins or Worlds Apart?
Two glamorous coastal cities. Two international beach playgrounds bracketing the Atlantic. Two skylines full of glass towers a short walk…
Jordan’s Tourism Boom Has Been Hit by Regional Conflict – but the Middle East’s Remarkable Destination Is Still Waiting for Travelers
Before the latest regional turmoil, Jordan was enjoying a remarkable tourism boom. From Petra and Wadi Rum to the Dead…
The Falkland Islands: A Remote Subpolar World Beyond the Territorial Dispute
For decades, the Falkland Islands have been at the center of a dispute between Britain and Argentina. But beyond the…
Southern California’s Beaches Are Being Ripped Apart by Huge Waves. What Happens Next?
From Malibu to Long Beach and Orange County, powerful swells have stripped away beaches, damaged homes and infrastructure, and exposed…
The Darién Gap Is One of the Wildest Places on Earth – And the Americas’ Great Highway Stops There
Between Panama and Colombia lies a vast landscape of rainforests, mountains, wetlands and rivers so remote that large parts of…
Kelvin Waves From the Equatorial Pacific Are Moving Toward North America: Why They Matter
A powerful pulse of warm water is advancing from the equatorial Pacific toward the coast of North America. Known as…
Rwanda’s Double Triumph: Africa’s Cleanest Nation and the Rescue of a Rare Species
Ask most Americans to picture Rwanda and, if they picture anything at all, it’s probably 1994. What they’re missing is…
The World Has Green Beaches – So Why Don’t We Talk About Them?
Ask someone to picture a beach and they’ll describe some version of the same palette: golden, white, maybe a dramatic…
Florida’s Beaches Are Finally Seeing Less Sargassum – But the Seaweed Problem Isn’t Going Away
The worst of Florida’s 2026 sargassum season appears to be easing, but huge amounts of the floating seaweed are still…
The World’s Next Ocean Is Being Born Right Now – And It Looks Like a Lake
Somewhere in the heart of Asia, a very slow, very real drama is unfolding: a continent is tearing itself apart,…
Europe’s Winter Escape Hatch: Why Corralejo, Fuerteventura, Might Have the Best January Beach Weather You’ve Never Heard Of
While most of Europe is digging out scarves and watching the forecast for snow, one stretch of coastline just off…
Hurricane Lowell Just Swept West of Hawaii – And 2026 Has Been an Unusually Busy Year for the Islands
Hawaii has once again found itself watching a powerful hurricane pass close to its western islands. Hurricane Lowell briefly reached…
You Think Europe Is Safe from Tsunamis? History Might Prove You Wrong!
When people picture a tsunami, they picture Southeast Asia in 2004 or Japan in 2011 – the Pacific “Ring of…
Costa Rica’s Unusual Orange Shark: The Story Behind the Rare Sighting
When a group of sport fishermen dropped their lines off Costa Rica in August 2024, they were expecting the usual…