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Tropical Depression Bill a flood threat
Bill made landfall late Tuesday morning as a tropical storm. Now weakened, it will produce heavy rain in parts of the south-central U.S. on Wednesday.
June 17, 2015
Mount Everest shifted 3 centimeters by Nepal earthquake
Located on the China-Nepal border, Mount Everest - highest mountain on Earth - sits where two of Earth's great land plates meet. Thus it's always moving ...
June 16, 2015
Real Jurassic Park needs more than dinos
Yes, cloning long-extinct dinosaurs is impossible. But even if dinosaur genomes were available, the animals couldn’t simply be plopped anywhere.
June 15, 2015
Global warming hiatus never happened
Studies had suggested that global warming slowed or paused since 1998. More thorough research shows the global warming "hiatus" likely never happened.
June 12, 2015
North America once linked to Australia?
A new tectonic model suggests that the continent of North America may have once been attached to Australia.
June 11, 2015
Watch start of India’s monsoon season
This year's monsoon rainfall began on June 5 in southern India. This animation, made from satellite data, shows where the precipitation fell as the season started.
June 10, 2015
Measuring sea level on a dynamic Earth
Warming temps, and the rise and fall of coasts, complicate measurements of sea level. How do scientists establish sea level on a constantly changing Earth?
June 10, 2015
First-of-its-kind bird fossil found in Brazil
It dates back approximately 115 million years and reveals a prehistoric bird with long tail feathers, a first-of-its-kind find for South America.
June 9, 2015
How much do oceans add to world’s oxygen?
Most of Earth's oxygen comes from tiny ocean plants - called phytoplankton - that live near the water's surface and drift with the currents.
June 8, 2015
Seaweed colonizing ice-free parts of Antarctica
With glaciers melting, the original white, mostly lifeless Antarctica is now becoming darker and lively with seaweed.
June 8, 2015
