A volcano on Fernandina, an uninhabited island dense with wildlife, is lighting up the night…
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The large reservoir in Catalonia shrank to 1 percent of capacity in March 2024. Three…
Ranchers in the Texas Panhandle recently faced a fire that charred more than 1 million…
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite provides a new view of water on land,…
Scientists’ annual checkup on Earth’s carbon cycle found that burning oil, coal, and natural gas…
The effects of a warm winter in the upper Midwest are evident in the lack…
Huge understory fires are spreading throughout the state in northern Brazil as drought and heat…
The surface melting of a high-elevation glacier in the Alps has rendered it unusable for…
The future site of Indonesia’s new capital saw rapid change between 2022 and 2024. Since…
Lakes and lava flows fill the depression atop this geologically young stratovolcano in eastern Türkiye.…
New research shows that while some Antarctic ice shelves have been thinning since at least…
Scientists speculated about these holes for decades, but it’s now well understood that cavum clouds…
Refreshed by precipitation from an atmospheric river, a temporary lake in Death Valley is extending…
A large stadium contributes to the nighttime illumination of Las Vegas, which hosts the Super…
Torrential rain fell on southern parts of the state, the product of an intense atmospheric…
NASA’s PACE satellite lifted off from Florida and headed for orbit, from where it will…
Tectonic forces over millions of years have folded the region’s layers of colorful rock. Erosion…
Some parts of the peninsula rose up to 4 meters (13 feet), shifting the position…