Earth Science

Hurricane Season May Start Early to Ruin Your Memorial Day Weekend

Hurricane season begins June 1, but the tropics are coming alive a week ahead of schedule. A disturbance near the Yucatan Peninsula is starting to get organized, and there’s a high chance it could be a tropical depression by this weekend. Even if it doesn’t build into a tropical system, the storm will still bring…

Earth Science Brian Kahn

Now Kilauea’s Eruption Is Producing Wild Blue Flames

With 100-foot fire fountains sending rivers of lava toward the sea, it may seem like Kilauea has exhausted its pyrotechnic bag of tricks. Turns out it hasn’t. Kilauea has now activated blue fire mode. On Tuesday night, as lava continued to scorch soil and vegetation in the Leilani Estates Subdivision, scientists with the U.S. Geological…

Earth Science Maddie Stone

There’s Another Weird Tropical Cyclone Headed to the Middle East

Another rare tropical cyclone situation is unfolding in the Middle East. Cyclone Mekunu spun up on Tuesday and is now heading toward Salalah, the capital of Oman. It should make landfall somewhere in the region on Friday with 104 mph sustained winds, making it the equivalent of a robust Category 2 storm. Some areas could…

Earth Science Brian Kahn

Hordes of Mosquitos Are Terrorizing Southwest Russia

Summer days mean a few things, including beaches, ice cream, and mosquitoes. Unfortunately, the mosquito part came a bit early for folks in the Voronezh region of southwest Russia. And these bloodsuckers are playing zero games. Just check out this video: Or this photo of a car whose owner is never opening the door again:…

Earth Science Yessenia Funes

Kilauea’s Lava Is Changing—Here’s What That Means

After three weeks, the eruption at Kilauea volcano’s lower East Rift Zone shows no signs of abatement. In fact, dramatic changes to the lava over the last few days suggest things are still heating up—literally. For the first few weeks, the lava oozing out of cracks in the lower East Rift Zone was making relatively…

Earth Science Maddie Stone

It’s No Illusion: Field Biology Is Just Like Arrested Development

You may not think that Arrested Development—the internet-favorite show about a family of incompetent SoCal real estate developers—has much of anything to do with field biology. But Twitter has proven otherwise over the past week. Turns out, a lot of biologists can find a voice for their daily struggles through the equally ignominious experiences of…

Earth Science Asia Murphy

A Rare Cyclone Is About to Hit Somalia

On Wednesday, Cyclone Sagar formed deep in the Gulf of Aden, which separates the Middle East and East Africa. The basically unprecedented storm is taking aim at Somalia and Djibouti—a country where tropical weather just doesn’t happen—this weekend. It could bring torrential rain and flash flooding to the area that’s already fairly saturated after a…

Earth Science Brian Kahn

Kilauea Just Had Its Biggest Eruption Yet

Hawaiians received a rude awakening on Thursday morning when Kilauea blew its top in the most violent summit eruption yet. Just after 4 a.m. local time, Kilauea sent ash towering 30,000 feet above sea level, according to the Associated Press. The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency warned residents to shelter in place as ash drifted to…

Earth Science Brian Kahn

Scientists Fight Volcano Myths As Kilauea Erupts

Is Hawaii part of the Ring of Fire? Could the ongoing eruption at Kilauea volcano trigger similar outbursts along the West Coast, or explode like Krakatoa? If it weren’t for volcanoes, would the Earth itself explode? The answer to each of these questions is a resounding “no.” And yet all of them were recently promoted…

Earth Science Maddie Stone

How Sound Can Help Scientists Track Earth’s Vanishing Glaciers

Our planet is a symphonic masterpiece. Whales, rivers, water birds, springs, and ice all there for the listening, and they sound spectacular. But humans are changing the planet’s tune and adding discordant notes to the natural score. That’s particularly true for the polar regions, where glaciers tumble down from Greenland and Antarctica’s ice sheets into…

Earth Science Brian Kahn

Why Kilauea’s Volcanic Ash Is a Serious Health Hazard

When volcanoes ooze lava, people know to get the hell out of the way. They know the fiery red stuff threatens their homes and lives. But what about when eruptions produce lots of ash and gas? That stuff can be deadly, too. The Kilauea volcano in Pahoa, Hawaii, has been going off since earlier this…

Earth Science Yessenia Funes

Kilauea Spews Ash, Golf Continues

Kilauea has been oozing lava for weeks, but things took a turn for the worse on Tuesday when the summit crater sent ash flying up to 12,000 feet above sea level. This sign of the apocalypse apparently wasn’t enough to deter golfers from hitting the links. The above image—which is this year’s version of the…

Earth Science Brian Kahn

Did New York Just Get Hit By a Derecho?

Your humble Earther weather correspondent went the roof of Gizmodo Media’s offices to capture the above picture. By the time he descended to the ground floor, all hell had broken loose. Powerful winds made umbrellas abstract sculptures of plastic, metal, and fabric. And that’s too bad for their owners, as torrential rains turned city streets…

Earth Science Brian Kahn

The Weather Looks Bad, Guys

New York City is not looking so hot right now. A series of storms is rapidly descending on a vast swath of the Mid-Atlantic and New England, after similar storms battered our nation’s capital on Monday. The storms are being hailed ‘derecho-like,’ a term the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration uses to describe a “widespread, long-lived…

Earth Science Maddie Stone

Enormous Wildfires Are Spreading in Siberia

Dry, warm weather has primed Siberia for wildfires this spring. After a moderate outbreak in April, the countryside has lit up in a major way in May. The fires are the latest in a litany of changes taking place in the northern part of the world. Wildfires lit up last week in Russia’s Far East…

Earth Science Brian Kahn

NASA’s Carbon Monitoring Program Won’t Go Down Without a Fight [Update: It Won]

Florida Senator Bill Nelson is none too happy that the Trump administration got away with killing NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System (CMS). And it seems he won’t let the program go down without a fight. On Friday, the Democratic Senator and former astronaut sent a letter to top Congressional appropriators expressing “deep concern” over the canceling…

Earth Science Maddie Stone

Why India’s Dust Storms Are So Deadly This Year

Dust storm season is in full throttle in India—and it’s turned deadly. At least 71 people, including at least five children, died over the weekend as a result of the wind-whipped dust and accompanying thunderstorms. And the terror has spread far and wide, reports the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Dust has been blowing—at speeds of up…

Earth Science Yessenia Funes

Florida May Get a Tropical Cyclone This Week

We’re still a few weeks out from the official start of hurricane season, but tropical cyclones don’t care much for regulation. That’s why there’s a small chance one could spin up off the Florida Panhandle this week. A large, low pressure area filled with clouds and thunderstorms has developed across the southeastern Gulf of Mexico,…

Earth Science Maddie Stone

Please Enjoy These Animals the Zoos Have Kindly Rebranded For Us

The social media teams behind zoos and aquariums have rapidly become a beacon of hope in the otherwise festering hellscape of internet dialog. The latest example? Animals rebranded as better animals. The delightfully silly #RebrandASpecies hashtag currently trending on Twitter was born into the wilds on Thursday, awakening a sentiment that’s been buried in our cold hearts…

Earth Science Maddie Stone

Kilauea Volcano Could Erupt ‘Explosively,’ But What Does That Mean?

The outlook for Kilauea volcano took a turn for the worse this week, when the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaii Volcano Observatory (HVO) warned that the dramatic draining of the summit crater could herald an “explosive” eruption. The action at Kilauea that has gripped the world’s attention for the past week has mainly consisted of lava…

Earth Science Maddie Stone

Hurricane Season May Start Early to Ruin Your Memorial Day Weekend

Now Kilauea’s Eruption Is Producing Wild Blue Flames

There’s Another Weird Tropical Cyclone Headed to the Middle East

Hordes of Mosquitos Are Terrorizing Southwest Russia

Kilauea’s Lava Is Changing—Here’s What That Means

It’s No Illusion: Field Biology Is Just Like Arrested Development

A Rare Cyclone Is About to Hit Somalia

Kilauea Just Had Its Biggest Eruption Yet

Scientists Fight Volcano Myths As Kilauea Erupts

How Sound Can Help Scientists Track Earth’s Vanishing Glaciers

Why Kilauea’s Volcanic Ash Is a Serious Health Hazard

Kilauea Spews Ash, Golf Continues

Did New York Just Get Hit By a Derecho?

The Weather Looks Bad, Guys

Enormous Wildfires Are Spreading in Siberia

NASA’s Carbon Monitoring Program Won’t Go Down Without a Fight [Update: It Won]

Why India’s Dust Storms Are So Deadly This Year

Florida May Get a Tropical Cyclone This Week

Please Enjoy These Animals the Zoos Have Kindly Rebranded For Us

Kilauea Volcano Could Erupt ‘Explosively,’ But What Does That Mean?

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