Beneath a national park famous for its geysers and bison herds sits one of the most powerful volcanic systems on Earth. Most visitors to Yellowstone walk the boardwalks above superheated springs without giving much thought to what lies below. But scientists who study the ground they’re standing on think about little else. The Yellowstone caldera,...
Something strange surfaced out of the Alaskan darkness in the summer of 2023, and it stopped scientists cold. Footage from a robotic camera more than two miles beneath the Gulf of Alaska suddenly filled with a soft, shimmering, golden shape — dome-like, maybe four inches across, pressed flat against a rock like it had been...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the United Nations body that coordinates the world’s largest scientific assessment of climate science – is currently in its seventh assessment cycle, working toward new reports that will define our understanding of global conditions well into the century. The IPCC does not make predictions. It outlines what science tells...
Space is big. Disturbingly big. And most of the time, it goes about its business without us paying much attention. But every so often, something out there catches scientists’ eyes in a way that stops the room. Asteroid Bennu is one of those things. It’s a rocky, spinning lump about 1,610 feet wide – roughly...
The US Environmental Protection Agency issued an urgent warning to more than 1.3 million residents across Texas and New Mexico. Due to the severe drop in air quality, residents are urged to stay indoors, shut their windows, and avoid outdoor exercise. The US EPA issued the warning last week, Friday, 27th March 2026. Two clouds...
On Monday, April 6, 2026, four astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis II mission made history at 12:56 p.m. CDT. Traveling 248,655 miles from Earth, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, surpassed the record for the farthest distance any humans have ever traveled from Earth –...
In February of this year, Trump launched Operation Epic Fury, when U.S. Central Command conducted strikes against Iranian military infrastructure. These strikes targeted IRGC command centers, air defenses, and missile sites, coinciding with Israel’s Operation Roaring Lion to mark a historic level of joint military cooperation. However, on the first day of the U.S.-Israeli attacks...
Los Angeles, situated in a state with over 39 million residents, ranks as one of the most densely populated urban centers in the United States. The state’s coastal geography profoundly shapes California’s economic and cultural identity. In the past, before the advent of commercial flight, the proximity of a city to the sea was the...
Climate stories rarely arrive with this much tension packed into a single forecast. Across the Pacific, the last traces of La Niña are fading, and forecasters now see a credible path toward El Niño later in 2026. That shift would draw attention in any year, yet this is not any year. The world has just...
Climate change often reaches the public through graphs, targets, and diplomatic language. Then a single image erases that distance. Climate Central’s sea level reconstructions work with that exact force. They place familiar coastlines inside a harsher future. Havana appears to be overtaken by Caribbean water. Washington, London, Seville, Hong Kong, Dubai, Rio de Janeiro, Cape...
On the evening of 24 June 1982, British Airways Flight 9 departed Kuala Lumpur for Perth, Australia. The Boeing 747, named City of Edinburgh, carried 248 passengers and 15 crew members. The flight formed one leg of a longer route from London Heathrow to Auckland, New Zealand. Weather reports showed calm, clear conditions for the...
Rivers across the Pacific Northwest are missing something critical to how they function, and it’s not water. It’s wood. Fallen trees, root wads, whole logjams. A healthy river in this part of the country was never supposed to be a neat, fast-flowing channel. It was a tangle of downed timber, braided side channels, and seasonal...
