Earth & Environment
The 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption produced the largest underwater explosion ever recorded by modern instruments
Aug 24, 2026
Earth Science and Weather
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Earth & Environment
If you compressed Earth's entire atmosphere down to sea-level density, it would form a shell only about eight kilometres thick around a…
Aug 22, 2026
Earth & Environment
Humans have visually observed less than 0.001 percent of the deep ocean floor
Aug 22, 2026
Earth & Environment
For roughly 60 million years, rising and falling seas appear to have helped regulate Earth’s climate through an overlooked feedback
Aug 20, 2026
Earth & Environment
In Venezuela, a lake roughly the size of Connecticut experiences thunderstorms on nearly 300 nights a year, with lightning sometimes…
Aug 19, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 2025, scientists drilling beneath the Atlantic off New England pumped up about 50,000 litres of remarkably fresh groundwater
Aug 19, 2026
Earth & Environment
The man who drew the first geological map of an entire country spent twenty-eight years surveying it, sold his fossil collection to the…
Aug 17, 2026
Earth & Environment
A rocky outcrop on the shore of Hudson Bay in northern Quebec contains the oldest known intact rocks on Earth, dated to at least 4.16…
Aug 17, 2026
Earth & Environment
Earth’s largest waterfall has no visible spray and no tourist overlook
Aug 17, 2026
Earth & Environment
Earth's inner core has begun drifting backward relative to the surface after decades of moving slightly faster
Aug 17, 2026
Earth & Environment
Rain fell across part of the Atacama Desert in 2015 and again in 2017 after roughly five centuries without it, but instead of reviving the…
Aug 14, 2026
Earth & Environment
At its peak 6,000 years ago, a lake in the Sahara covered roughly 360,000 square kilometres, more than all five Great Lakes combined, yet…
By Mal James · Aug 14, 2026
Earth & Environment
A single bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the Sun
Aug 13, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 1815, a volcano erupted with such violence that temperatures fell across the planet, crops failed thousands of miles away, and the…
By Ainura Kalau · Aug 12, 2026