Spanish wildfire: Foreigners among 12 killed as Kiwis urged to follow local safety advice
“We are monitoring the situation closely.” The wildfire’s death toll is one of the highest in Spain’s recent…
Scientists Used AI to Find Hidden Earthquake Signals Along the San Andreas Fault
Predicting earthquakes has been an impossible dream for seismologists practically since the discipline first emerged over 150 years…
Why A Record-Hot Ocean Is Supercharging The El Niño Effect
The ocean covers about 71% of the planet, from the Pacific side, Earth is almost nothing but water.…
A Hidden Crisis: Why Millions Are Burning Plastic Just To Survive
A global study has revealed that burning plastic in households across many developing countries may be far more…
Tropical forests can stop acting as carbon sinks during El Niño, says research
Tropical forests draw down and store large quantities of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in South…
‘Death sentence’: Trump’s EPA to open habitats of endangered species to logging and mining | Trump administration
The Trump administration repealed a crucial part of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) on Friday, finalizing a new…
NOAA Raises Odds of a Historic ‘Super’ El Niño
El Niño, declared by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) just one month ago, is strengthening at…
Landslide warning for Kaikōura following heavy rain
The Kaikōura District Council is warning there is a continuing risk of landslides across the district. It says…
This chaotic 2,000-pound seal has returned to sea – but leaves behind a conundrum
Without so much as a wave of his flipper, Neil the boisterous young elephant seal departed Tasmania this…
Earth’s largest waterfall is not Niagara or Victoria Falls—it lies entirely underwater in the Denmark Strait, where cold, dense water cascades roughly 3,500 metres down the ocean floor, a drop more than three times the height of Angel Falls.
The largest waterfall on Earth has no viewing platform, no mist rising into sunlight, and no tourist boats…
Colombia’s outgoing environment minister warns of climate action setbacks
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia ’s outgoing environment minister warned Friday that the incoming government could reverse recent…
In a first, scientists observe the formation of the oceanic crust
Researchers at the French National Center of Scientific Research have become the first to observe the formation of…