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Raining fish and frogs … for real

Click here to read many recent, documented accounts of raining fish and frogs. Yes, it's a real thing! Discover the causes here.

Don Machholz

Deborah Byrd

Marcy Curran

August 7, 2022

Do bees die after they sting you?

Do bees die after they sting you? Only the honeybee dies after stinging you, and only female bees have stingers. The female honeybee dies protecting its home.

Editors of EarthSky

August 7, 2022

Tonga eruption may weaken ozone layer

The Tonga eruption of January 15, 2022, injected so much water vapor into the atmosphere that it may weaken our protective ozone layer.

Kelly Kizer Whitt

August 4, 2022

Shrinking Lake Mead reveals bodies and boats

Lake Mead water levels continue to drop precipitously. People are finding things hidden underwater for decades, including human bodies.

Eleanor Imster

August 3, 2022

Earth’s shortest day sets new record

Earth has been speeding up over the past few years, resulting in our shortest day ever as measured by atomic clocks. Will we need to subtract a leap second?

EarthSky Voices

August 2, 2022

Freshwater plesiosaur fossils spark Loch Ness Monster questions

Scientists have discovered the 1st freshwater plesiosaur fossils, in an ancient riverbed in Morocco.

Paul Scott Anderson

August 1, 2022

Weird ocean holes are an unsolved mystery

Scientists with NOAA Ocean Exploration say they found weird ocean holes on the Atlantic seafloor while exploring an underwater volcano. What made them?

Paul Scott Anderson

July 30, 2022

Garbage in our oceans: How best to remove it?

Some groups are trying to clean up garbage patches in the oceans while others are trying to stop the plastics from entering the oceans in the first place.

Kelly Kizer Whitt

July 30, 2022

Deadly Kentucky flooding crushes records

Record-breaking flooding devastated parts of Kentucky on July 28, 2022. The Kentucky flooding event is one of the most devastating in the state’s history.

Peter Forister

July 28, 2022