The is captured in the Gulf of Mexico in this shot from the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere. In October, Milton became one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded over the Gulf of Mexico, with winds hitting 285 kilometres per hour. Once it made landfall as a category 3 storm in Florida, it caused storms and flooding that wrecked homes and power lines. It killed at least 35 people, 32 in the US and three in Mexico.
Bright orange lava spills onto white snow after the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland erupted in February. The lava flow, imaged by a European Union Copernicus Sentinel satellite, disrupted the hot water supply of more than 20,000 homes. It was the third time the volcano had erupted since the end of 2023.
The eye of a storm is more than just a metaphor. This image from reveals the centre of the deadly hurricane Beryl.聽It wreaked havoc in July after it tore into buildings across Jamaica, the Cayman Islands and the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, killing dozens of people.
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This gives a new meaning to being in the line of fire. The glowing orange line in this Copernicus satellite image is the front of wildfires hitting green forest in Butte county, California. The blaze marched across thousands of acres of land in July, damaging homes and vehicles.
Floods struck Brazil in May. This aerial view of the flooded Beira-Rio Stadium in Porto Alegre reveals some of the damage. Heavy rainfall caused flooding that displaced thousands of people, killed more than 175, damaged buildings and triggered widespread power outages.
Saharan dust made parts of Greece look as if they were colonies on Mars in April. Here, a couple sits on Tourkovounia hill in Athens, as a yellow-orange haze of dust blown in from the Sahara desert smothers the city. The dust limited visibility and prompted authorities to issue health warnings.
Brazil didn鈥檛 just see floods this year: in September, a record-breaking drought in the Amazon stranded boats in Alexio Lake in Amazonas state. A lack of rainfall and rising temperatures amid climate change left water levels at an all-time low across many rivers in the Amazon basin, disrupting local people鈥檚 food and water supplies.
