The Doctor, the eponymous star of Doctor Who, doesn’t visit her homeworld very often. This isn’t just because the Time…
Australian scientists have discovered a previously unknown chain of volcanic seamounts near Tasmania. The area appears…
Hurricane Michael is on track to make landfall in Florida’s Panhandle Wednesday as one of the fiercest storms the…
The tsunami that struck Indonesia’s Sulawesi island and killed at least 1,400 people sadly won’t be the last. Human…
The tsunami-driven floodwater has receded from Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, but the slow-motion disaster continues. The…
Geyser eruptions at Yellowstone National Park are moments of rarefied beauty; spectacular reminders that we live on a…
We humans tend to pride ourselves on our ability to adapt, but bacteria have been beating us at this game for billions…
The Indonesian island of Sulawesi has become a natural disaster zone. After a tsunami battered the island late last…
The red tide algae bloom that’s plagued Florida’s Gulf Coast for months has now jumped east to the Atlantic. Florida…
The irony of transitioning to clean energy is we’re going to have to mine the shit out of the Earth to do it. Much like…
As if the devastating effects of bombs dropped on European cities during the Second World War weren’t terrible enough,…
The largest contributors to climate change also stand to lose the most, according to a new study that looks at the…
It’s no secret that ice around the world is receding as global temperatures rise. Even so, the sudden destabilization…
The detection of strange, unpredicted behavior deep below the surface near the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults…
Tropical Storm Mangkhut was on the move Monday as it made its way through Southeast Asia. The former Super Typhoon, whic…
We’ve seen a lot of good maps of Earth’s polar regions of late. A map that shows the thickness of the entire Antarctic…
On September 15, NASA will launch a laser 310 miles above the Earth to scan our planet’s ice sheets like never before,…
Since it snapped off the Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017, the trillion-ton iceberg known as A68 has spent most of its…
All over the world, from Florida to Thailand, efforts are underway to restore mangrove forests. These ecosystem have…
A year has passed since Hurricane Harvey bore down in the Southeast, pummeling Texas and Louisiana with 27 trillion…