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If you can�t outrun them, avoid being a victim of disasters by being prepared and heeding warnings.

If you can’t outrun them, avoid being a victim of disasters by being prepared and heeding warnings.

A satellite image of a large hurricane over the Southeastern United States

an image of a flare erupting from the sun

a satellite image of a hurricane cloud

Snow-covered summit of Mount Washington at sunrise.

A man in the desert looks at the city after the effects of global warming.

A satellite photo of an island with a giant river of orange lava

Tropical Storm Theta

Satellite images captured by NOAA�s GOES-16 (GOES-East) showed Hurricane Lorenzo as it rapidly intensified from a Category 2 storm to a Category 4 storm on Sept. 26.

NOAA’s GOES East satellite captured this view of the strong Category 1 storm at 8:20 a.m. EDT, just 15 minutes before the center of Hurricane Dorian moved across the barrier islands of Cape Hatteras.

A hurricane update goes awry when U.S. President Donald Trump refers to a map, from Aug. 29, 2019, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., Sept. 4. See anything funny on the map

Hurricane Dorian, seen in this satellite view on Sept. 3, 2019, along with two other brewing storms.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch shared this view of Hurricane Dorian from the International Space Station on Sept. 2, 2019.

Infographic: The layers and functions of the human skin.

science budgets for federal government

infographic of nuclear power plant

Fukushima fuel rod infographic

infographic of human body sweat

Today�s GoFIgure looks at phobias, defined as irrational fears of things which are not likely to be dangerous.

Split image of an eye close up and the Tiangong Space Station.