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December 6, 2016

Tornado cluster sizes skyrocket, and no one knows why

Tornados are behaving strangely: The number of tornado outbreaks per year is fairly constant, but the number of tornados per outbreak has skyrocketed.

November 28, 2016

Inside the new effort to entomb Chernobyl's wreckage

In the aftermath of the world's worst nuclear disaster in Chernobyl in 1986, which resulted in radiation that ultimately reached as far as Japan and the US, the Soviet Union slapped together a massive sarcophagus of metal and concrete as hastily as possible to contain further fallout at the site of reactor 4.

November 9, 2016

Huge water 'lake' found beneath Bolivian volcano

Scientists have discovered what is kind of like a very big, extremely warm hot tub beneath a Bolivian volcano.

November 8, 2016

Incoming! How NASA and FEMA would respond to an asteroid threat

It's a scary scenario: an asteroid headed for Earth, just four years away from slamming into our home planet.

October 14, 2016

A comet may have hit the Earth 56 million years ago, study says

Million of years in the past, a comet or an asteroid might have slammed into the Earth at an important time in its climatic history.

October 7, 2016

New fault discovered in southern California near the San Andreas

Scientists’ knowledge of the geology of southern California has been shaken up by the discovery of a new faultline that runs parallel to the San Andreas.

October 4, 2016

San Andreas earthquake swarm: How mini-quakes affect risk of big ones

A swarm of small quakes near the San Andreas fault spurred officials in California to issue an earthquake alert for residents of Southern California

August 19, 2016

California wildfires: Experts weigh wildlife impact

As authorities in California battle devastating wildfires across the state, experts are weighing the infernos’ effects on wildlife.

August 15, 2016

Hundreds of pets rescued from deadly Louisiana flooding

Hundreds of pets have been rescued from homes in southern Louisiana following the devastating flooding that wrought havoc and claimed the lives of six people.

July 28, 2016

Huge quake for the Himalayas? Ancient Hindu temples hold clues

Past earthquakes that damaged ancient temples perched high in the Himalayas could be harbingers of dangerous quakes to come, new research suggests