July 13, 2017 10 deadly tornadoes from U.S. history Born from thunderstorms, tornadoes can rip apart homes and toss cars around like toys. These are some of the most vicious twisters to hit the U.S. in recorded history.
June 26, 2017 Earthquakes: Reckoning with 'The Big One' in California-and it just got bigger For years, scientists believed the mighty San Andreas—the 800-mile-long fault running the length of California where the Pacific and North American plates meet—could only rupture in isolated sections.
June 21, 2017 464 earthquakes in one week hit much feared Yellowstone 'supervolcano' The supervolcano at Yellowstone National Park has been hit with more than 400 earthquakes since June 12. Researchers say it's nothing to be alarmed about, though.
June 14, 2017 Researchers say they've found lost wonder of the world They were considered the eighth natural wonder of the world and the greatest tourist attraction in the Southern Hemisphere in the mid-1800s—and then they were gone: The Pink and White Terraces of Lake Rotomahana in New Zealand's North Island spellbound visitors until June 1886 when Mount Tarawera erupted, wiping the silica sinter (a kind of quartz) formations off the map.
June 2, 2017 California is now 13 acres bigger A recent landslide is the largest a California Department of Transportation representative is aware of, and the US Geological Survey explains just how big it was.
February 13, 2017 First came a 'catastrophic collapse,' then a tsunami More than 300,000 years ago, a massive chunk of rock broke off from Australia's continental shelf, triggering the largest undersea landslide ever known, per Science Alert.
February 8, 2017 Incredibly high radiation levels discovered at crippled Fukushima plant Newly-discovered radiation levels in one of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant’s reactors are stunningly high.
January 26, 2017 Mathematician wants to fight tsunamis with sound waves Tsunamis are among the deadliest forces in nature.
January 3, 2017 Swarm of 250 small earthquakes strike California-Mexico border More than 250 small earthquakes along the Southern California-Mexico border on New Year’s Eve have left some residents worried and scientists intrigued.
December 16, 2016 'Slow motion' earthquake put New Zealand at risk for another temblor The magnitude-7.8 Kaikoura earthquake that rattled New Zealand last month may have set up the country for another major quake underneath its capital of Wellington.