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The 19-mile-wide, ice-covered hole is bigger than roughly 90% of all known impact craters on Earth.
These are some of the worst floods in Australia's recorded history.
It's not just heat exhaustion and stroke that harm people when temperatures rise. Researchers found that hot days drove mental health crises as well.
The country's telecommunications companies were able to repair a major subsea fiber optic cable badly damaged during last month's volcanic eruptions.
It took just 30 minutes for the main plume to reach the atmospheric layer beneath space.
The storm has swept across the country, knocking out power and imperiling drivers.
A new study reveals just how important deep sea plankton are for removing carbon from the atmosphere.
Over 100 people are dead and dozens missing after record rains in Petrópolis.
Experts say the freak wave was a once-in-a-millennium event.
The eruption was so powerful that it created a thunderstorm over Sicily.
Residents reported hearing what sounded like gunshots go off as the cold weather caused sap in the trees to expand.
The state is girding up for ice and snow as a 2,000-mile-long winter storm hits this week.
Ice, snow, and bitter cold have made travel impossible as a so-called Winter Storm Landon hits a dozen states, from Texas to New England.
Steady advances in satellite technology means even greater megaflashes could be detected in the near future.
Events like those in Haiti and Brazil are only expected to become more common around the world, including in the United States.
A massive swath of the U.S. is under storm warnings this week as Winter Storm Landon brings messy weather.
Thousands of people's homes have been destroyed as the region struggles to recover from Tropical Storm Ana.
The winter storm could bring more than two feet of snow to parts of New England and lead to blizzard conditions along the coast.
The imagery shows towns and water clogged with ash as well as the striking transformation of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai volcano following a massive eruption.
The bomb cyclone is going to be a big one, but how much snow it dumps in New York remains to be seen.