A massive effort is underway as workers continue rescuing earthquake victims who have been trapped for as long as 61 hours.
This morning, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck near the Turkish city of Gaziantep, collapsing thousands of buildings across southern Turkey and northwestern Syria.
Images from recent days showing the widespread damage, rescue workers and volunteers, and residents affected by the storm
Images from southwest Florida, showing some of the destruction caused by this unusually intense storm
Recent images of the storm damage in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland
Recent images from Wuhan, Chongqing, Lake Poyang, and more
Images from recent weeks, after some of the heaviest monsoon rains in a decade have affected millions.
Images from a region beset by record-setting floods, just starting the work of recovery
Images from California’s biggest wildfire this year
Dozens of wildfires have broken out across Portugal, Spain, France, and other Southern European countries amid a deadly heat wave.
Heavy rains and melting snow filled rivers and carried away bridges, roads, and houses.
An oil tanker spilled thousands of barrels of oil into the ocean along the coastline of Peru.
Weeks of heavy rain have inundated communities in several Brazilian states.
Late on December 11, a tornado outbreak struck several states in the Midwest, hitting parts of western Kentucky especially hard.
Millions of cubic meters of fallen ash now blanket much of the landscape near the eruption.
Images from the Pacific Northwest, hard-hit by heavy rains
A month of lava flows and ashfall has taken a toll on several small towns on the island of La Palma.
Recent images of the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano
Images from a monster forest fire as it advances toward the city of South Lake Tahoe
As Ida weakens and moves northeast, many Louisiana residents are now assessing the damage, rescuing the stranded, and recovering what they can.
After a stalled storm dropped 17 inches of rain in a 24-hour period, buildings and vehicles were swept away.
As the death toll in Haiti approaches 2,000, rescue operations continue, and hospitals are overwhelmed.
Early images from the Haitian cities of Jeremie and Les Cayes, following a magnitude 7.2 earthquake
Thousand of tourists and locals have fled wildfires on Evia amid near-apocalyptic scenes of dark smoke and flames.
A collection of winning and honored images from this year’s nature-photo competition
A collection of amazing recent images made with the Hubble Space Telescope
Mourners of Pope Francis gathered at the Vatican, scenes from the the second weekend of Coachella 2025, a humanoid-robot half-marathon in China, and much more
Images of the people, animals, and landscapes of the Earth’s arctic and subarctic regions, photographed by Olivier Morin