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We're starting to stash our planet-warming carbon emissions beneath the seafloor, but we might have to take these strange mounds of underground sand into account.
A new study offers a comprehensive look at how wildfire affected the mortality rate on Maui in August 2023.
The first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season is poised to bring life-threatening impacts to much of the East Coast even though it’s unlikely to make landfall.
Myanmar's Sagaing Fault ruptured more than 124 miles (200 km) farther than seismologists had predicted. California should take notice.
A recent study claims to have found new geochemical evidence of an Earth-altering comet impact at the end of the last ice age, but skeptics still aren't convinced.
Within just 24 hours, Erin went from a Category 1 hurricane to a Category 5. Here’s how that happened.
A deadly combination of high temperatures and oppressive humidity has prompted the National Weather Service to issue advisories in 15 states.
A state-of-the-art ocean-observing satellite recorded the massive wave rippling out from the epicenter of this major quake.
The National Hurricane Center expects this storm to gradually strengthen over the next day or so, but also warned of its potential to rapidly intensify within the next 24 to 48 hours.
Juneau might see its third record-breaking flood in three years.
Scientists have known climate change is increasing the severity of hurricanes for years now, but new research suggests it’s also leading to tropical cyclone clusters.
Forecasters expect Tropical Storm Erin to strengthen significantly as it tracks westward across the Atlantic.
Now-famous CCTV footage from March confirms faulting dynamics that researchers could previously only infer.
After a slow start to the season, a marine heatwave is priming the Atlantic Basin for hurricane formation.
The Dragon Bravo wildfire has been burning for over a month, and U.S. firefighting agencies are too understaffed to stop it.
Seven volcanoes in the area erupted simultaneously, and for the first time in almost 300 years.
New research shows that hurricanes increase the risk of death among seniors who continue to live in storm-battered areas, but the mortality impacts vary by region.
Hundreds of uncontrolled wildfires have created a public health hazard across much of North America.
The Tintina fault hasn’t produced a large earthquake in 12,000 years, but that could soon change, researchers warn.
An 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula shook the Pacific, but its tsunami fizzled. A geologist explains why.
