The Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia hasn’t erupted in over 20 years, but there…
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The rapidly disappearing glaciers are altering more than the physical landscape, as a recent analysis…
According to the first-ever continent-wide risk assessment, climate change and the increasing number of visitors…
NASA is set to launch five rockets to study the high-speed winds and electrical turbulence…
The Italian volcano Etna, located in on the eastern coast of Sicily, had its third…
The chemical weathering process of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere dissolving in rainwater to form…
While analyzing samples of submarine volcanic glass near subduction zones, scientists found something unexpected. They…
Research complied from NASA’s Nimbus-7 satellite and the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Meteorological Satellite…
Researchers at MIT and Florida State University found evidence that the missing piece in the…
Researchers have discovered a veritable microbial oasis, under the Atacama Desert in Chile. The region…
Deep below the ocean’s surface, huge eddies are often formed. The depths have their own…
Astronomers launched a NASA-funded rocket into the aurora borealis, which are colloquially known as the…
Researchers analyzed NASA satellite data from 2000 – 2010 and found that the global average…
A nationwide study released today showed that fallout from the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power…
While climate models can forecast temperature changes and precipitation, they struggle to indicate how climate…
The USGS announced on Thursday the founding of the new California Volcano Observatory (CalVO), which…
Geologists are using new airborne lidar equipment to study earthquakes and provide comprehensive before-and-after pictures…
Recent research from the University of Colorado Boulder, in a joint effort with NASA, shows…