Natural disasters
The National Hurricane Center is finally seeing their ability to predict a storm’s strength catch up to their ability to track it.
A new study suggests a correlation between volcanic activity and heavy rainfall, but other volcanologists are skeptical.
The first fracking-induced earthquake to claim human lives shows why magnitude may underestimate the danger such earthquakes pose.
Some bubbles grow to be more than a quarter-mile across.
The Saffir-Simpson scale relies on wind to categorize a hurricane, but it doesn't account for storm surge or flooding.
Heat is the number one cause of weather-related deaths in the U.S.
Pressurized water may cause quakes on Mars the same way fracking and wastewater injection trigger quakes on Earth.
Astronomers are trying to deflect a near-Earth asteroid for the first time, to prepare for a future object on a collision course with the planet.
Understanding how seemingly solid rocks get squished could make mining and construction projects safer.
Researchers find that hot ash, lava, boulders and gas can rush from a volcano at high speeds on a cushion of air.
It’s now more common to see multiple giant wildfires burning at once, straining firefighting resources, scientists say.
Radar has revealed evidence of an environmentally significant impact that probably occurred during the last 2.6 million years.