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May 2, 2016

Mysterious, wavelike cloud hugs Grand Teton mountains (Photo)

A bizarre sheet of clouds embraced the highest peak in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming last week, enchanting even the park's most seasoned visitors.

May 2, 2016

Vast bed of metal balls found in deep sea

Scattered along the seafloor, dense clusters of large metal lumps have been discovered by scientists trolling for deep-sea creatures between South America and Africa The R/V Sonne, a German research ship, was several hundred miles east of Barbados when a mesh net meant to capture marine life instead brought up balls of manganese ore that were bigger than softballs.

May 2, 2016

Study: Global warming skeptics know more about climate science

Are global warming skeptics simply ignorant about climate science? Not so, says a forthcoming paper in the journal Advances in Political Psychology by Yale professor Dan Kahan. He finds that skeptics score about the same (in fact slightly better) on climate science questions.

May 2, 2016

Did ocean's big burps end last ice age?

A massive outpouring of carbon dioxide from the deep ocean may have helped end the last ice age, scientists report today

May 2, 2016

Volcano megafloods may have formed Europe’s mightiest waterfall

The canyon that holds Europe's most powerful waterfall may have been formed in a flash by just a few monster floods, new research suggests

May 2, 2016

Astronaut sees huge winter storm from space (Photos)

The monster winter storm that dumped loads of snow on the northeastern United States on Monday and Tuesday (Jan. 26 and 27) looked pretty beastly from 250 miles above the planet.

May 2, 2016

New York dodges blizzard bullet, but weather models under scrutiny

The record snow storm that was expected to pummel the Northeast on Tuesday failed to live up to its epic billing in the New York/New Jersey region — though it did hammer much of New England — putting the weather models used to predict the blizzard into question.

May 2, 2016

Barren deserts can host complex ecosystems

"Biological soil crusts" don't look like much.

May 2, 2016

2014 was Earth's hottest year on record

Global temperatures in 2014 shattered earlier records, making 2014 the hottest year since record-keeping began in 1880.

May 2, 2016

Critics probe scientist who asked Obama to use anti-Mafia laws to silence climate-change skeptics

Jagadish Shukla may be regretting he ever signed a controversial letter to President Obama.