Researchers say the Maka Lahi boulder was found more than 600ft from a rocky outcrop and was likely thrown there by a powerful wave 7,000 years ago. (Image courtesy of Martin Koehler, UQ) A huge rock rising hundreds of feet…
Researchers say clouds and storms in the eastern Pacific could develop into a tropical storm today. (Image courtesy of NOAA’s National Hurricane Center) Rainfall and thunderstorms off Mexico’s Pacific coast are likely to produce the Western Hemisphere’s first tropical storm…
Simushir Island, part of the Kuril Islands, is home to four large volcanoes, evenly spaced along the length of the island. (From left to right: Milna, Zavaritsky, Prevost, and Uratman.) (Image courtesy of NASA/Landsat) This eye-catching satellite image shows Simushir,…
The East African Rift System fuels volcanic activity in areas such as Ethiopia’s Erta Ale volcano (image). (Photo credit: Mike Korostelev via Getty Images) Scientists have found new evidence that a huge superplume of molten rock is rising beneath Africa,…
A Southern California Edison employee takes a radiation reading at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station on March 10, 2020. (Image credit: MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images via Getty Images) In the United States, approximately 90,000 tons of…
Hurricane Helen as seen by NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite en route to Florida on Sept. 26, 2024. (Image credit: NOAA satellites) The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be more intense than usual, according to forecasts from the National Oceanic…
Thousands of small icebergs have broken off the world’s largest iceberg, A23a, after it arrived off South Georgia Island in March. (Photo courtesy of NASA/Aqua) A stunning new satellite image has shown that the planet’s largest iceberg is beginning to…
Researchers have extracted samples from the bottom of Lake Chala (pictured above) to gain insight into our planet’s climate over the past 150,000 years. (Photo credit: Jacek_Sopotnicki via Getty Images) A tree-lined lake in Africa has become a source of…
Scientists have proposed a new theory about the formation of Yosemite Valley. (Image credit: Yiming Chen/Getty Images) A bold new hypothesis suggests that Yosemite Valley was formed by an ancient volcano and a vanished river that long ago ceased to…
Research shows that humans have only explored 0.001% of the ocean floor. (Photo credit: Jason Edwards/Getty Images) Scientists have estimated how much of the vast deep ocean floor has been explored, and it’s a surprisingly small percentage. Only 0.001 percent…
Reconstruction of an Early Cretaceous cool temperate rainforest and riverine landscape in what is now southern Australia. (Image credit: Artwork by Robert Nicholls. Published in Korasidis & Wagstaff (2025) Alcheringa. Distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence.)…
Antarctica is home to an estimated 20 million pairs of penguins, like these Adélie penguins found near Paulet Island on the Antarctic Peninsula. But what lies beneath the ice these penguins travel across every day? (Image credit: Patrick J. Endres…