Researchers have discovered trees in Panama’s lowland rainforest that use lightning to their advantage. (Photo: pawopa3336/Getty Images) Lightning is often seen as a symbol of destruction in forests, killing or damaging trees with its strikes. However, in the lowland rainforests…
In the new paper, the researchers refer to the Casiquiare River (flowing north-south in the center of this image), which connects the Orinoco River (flowing east-west) to the Rio Negro, as a “hydrological analogue of a wormhole between two galaxies.”…
Recent research sheds light on how Pangea broke apart 135 million years ago. (Image credit: Discovery Access via Getty Images) New evidence suggests the break between South America and Africa 135 million years ago was a turbulent event. The breakup…
Between March 1 and 20, the polar vortex moved from the Arctic to the Northern European region. (Image credit: NOAA Climate) A new animation shows that a major disruption to the Arctic polar vortex has shifted the ring of wind…
The Rainbow Mountains in China formed around the same time as the Himalayas. (Photo credit: Tom Till via Alamy) As the name suggests, China’s Rainbow Mountains are multi-colored formations in the northwest of the country. The landscape in the area…
(Image credit: Mtreasure via Getty Images) Forecasters say the central United States could face historic flooding this week as heavy rains and thunderstorms repeatedly hit the same areas. AccuWeather has warned of a 1-in-1,000-year flood risk in northeast Arkansas and…
The bottom of North America may be ‘leaking’ down into the mantle. (Photo credit: Timothy Hodgkinson via Alamy) Scientists say an ancient plate of crust deep beneath the Midwest is pulling significant amounts of modern North American crust into the…
Researchers have removed a 98-foot core from the bottom of the Great Blue Hole off the coast of Belize to study tropical cyclone patterns over the past 5,700 years. (Image credit: Schafer & Hill/Getty Images) Tropical cyclones in the Caribbean…
A large sponge and a cluster of anemones are spotted among other life forms beneath the George VI Ice Shelf in the Bellingshausen Sea. (Image credit: ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute) A massive iceberg that broke away from an Antarctic glacier…
In 2014, a huge, lonely cloud ring with a diameter of about 280 miles was recorded in the central Pacific Ocean. (Image credit: NASA/Terra/MODIS) This stunning satellite image shows a colossal, near-perfect cloud circle that formed in the heart of…
People stand near a collapsed building in Mandalay on March 28, 2025, after a devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck. (Photo Credit: STR via Getty Images) A strong magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) on Friday (March 28),…
A plume of steam rises from Mount Spurr on March 26. (Photo credit: Loewen, Matt, AVO) Images show Alaska’s Mount Spurr volcano spewing out a huge plume of steam. In its latest update on March 28, the Alaska Volcano Observatory…