The head of Italy’s disaster body, Luciano Maiani, has stepped down after seven colleagues were sentenced for their roles before the L’Aquila quake. Six scientists and an ex-government official were convicted of multiple manslaughter...
Tropical Storm Sandy will soon form in the Caribbean, and scenarios for its final destination range from bypassing the East Coast to creating a nightmare for millions of people. Tropical Depression 18 formed in the...
Scientists studying the fault beneath the Spanish city of Lorca say that groundwater removal may be implicated in a deadly 2011 earthquake there. Detailed surface maps from satellite studies allowed them to infer which...
The UK has just experienced its “weirdest” weather on record, scientists have confirmed. The driest spring for over a century gave way to the wettest recorded April to June in a dramatic turnaround never...
Every September and October (springtime in the Antarctic) a hole forms in the protective ozone layer over the South Pole. NOAA scientists explain why it forms, how NOAA monitors and studies ozone loss, and...
Despite frequent headlines about a warming planet, melting sea ice, and rising oceans, climate analysts pointed to a seeming bright spot this week: During Southern Hemisphere winters, sea ice in the Antarctic, the floating chunks of...
Hurricane Paul was expected to make landfall Tuesday afternoon along a lightly populated area of Mexico’s Baja California. Early Tuesday, the Category 2 hurricane was about 70 miles south of Cabo San Lazaro and...
A Japanese scientist has warned Mount Fuji is due for a “big-scale explosive eruption” that could affect millions of people and cause billions of dollars worth of damage. Last month a study found the magma...
Soon, Earth will pass through a stream of debris from Halley’s Comet, source of the annual Orionid meteor shower. Forecasters expect 25 meteors per hour when the shower peaks on Oct. 21st.
The coronal mass ejection that erupted from the sun on Oct. 4, 2012 at 11:24 p.m. EDT arrived at Earth on Oct. 8 at 12:30 a.m. EDT, as observed by instruments aboard NASA’s Advanced...
