Sep 02 2010
Yellowstone Hot Spot Shreds Ancient Pacific Ocean
A new study has found that the mantle plume that feeds Yellowstone's famous geysers is even more powerful than anyone ever thought.
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Sep 01 2010
NASA Offers New View of Lunar Crater
A new geologic map of Schrodinger Basin on the moon gives a unique glimpse of Luna's distant past.
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Aug 26 2010
France to Drain Glacial Lake That Threatens Thousands
Engineers will soon attempt to drain a dangerous glacier lake hidden inside Mount Blanc before it floods the valley below, home to 3,000 people.
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Aug 17 2010
Seattle’s Ongoing ‘Silent Quake’ Lends Clues to the Big One
Scientists are studying a peculiar set of seismic rumbles underneath the Seattle area, hoping to find clues to an impending magnitude 9 earthquake.
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Aug 12 2010
Haiti Quake Caused by Previously Unknown Fault
Scientists say the risk of future temblors in region is unclear.
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Aug 12 2010
Stunning ‘Honeycomb’ Clouds Yield Climate Clues
Strange arrangements of opening and closing cloud cells have long puzzled scientists. Now they think they've figured the features out.
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Aug 11 2010
Russian Heat, Asian Floods Share Common Cause
Weather scientists see upper air links between Russian heat and Asian floods -- and signs of global warming.
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Aug 10 2010
Mica Minerals Key to the Origins of Life
A new theory argues that the first life on Earth got started "between the sheets" -- sheets of flaky mica minerals, that is.
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Aug 08 2010
Giant Glacier Breaks on Anniversary of Global Warming
Thirty-five years after the term "global warming" was coined, a stark reminder of its symptoms reared its head in the Arctic.
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Aug 06 2010
Satellites Use Ripples in Space to Detect Tsunamis
Tsunamis produce "gravity waves" that GPS satellites can detect. Space-based monitoring could be a powerful new tool for issuing tsunami warnings.
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