“Please stay prepared to evacuate immediately if you feel any shaking, while continuing your socioeconomic activities.”

The findings hint at the creeping presence of microplastics near the South Pole, researchers suggest.

Here’s to another year of waiting for fusion to come ten years later.

“Against the enormity of such a wild region, this is an amazing story of the little float that could.”

Missed the auroras? These photographers have got you covered.

A USGS webcam captured harrowing footage of Hawaii’s Kīlauea erupting over the weekend. It didn’t survive.

The discovery could hold serious implications for the mining industry.

The outlook is grim, but a new report lays out a path to nearly eradicate plastic packaging pollution within the next 15 years.

Well, here’s something you don’t see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map.

Frigid temps and heavy snow gripped much of the U.S. on December 1, the first day of meteorological winter. It looks like these bitter conditions are here to stay.

When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away at the continent’s rapidly degrading ice shelves.

This annual competition showcases photography that documents extraordinary moments in natural history and highlights conservation issues.

A NASA satellite recently captured a volcanic plume billowing from Krasheninnikova.

Snow in Hawaii isn’t as unusual as you might think, but some northern U.S. cities are seeing significant delays to the start of their winter season.

The tech giant aims to offset its carbon emissions by bringing back a nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania.

The startup’s achievement is impressive but underscores the quiet chaos of the nuclear industry following a series of sweeping executive orders in May.

A wide swath of the western U.S. may be in for below-average temperatures as forecasts suggest an Arctic blast is looming.

Efforts to expand deep-sea mining are alarming scientists and Indigenous leaders, who worry mining risks fisheries and food security.

After going nearly extinct in the 1990s, these tropical snails have made a fabulous comeback—highlighting the value of carefully planned, long-term conservation projects.

The storm could trigger dangerous flash floods and mudslides, but it may also extinguish California’s wildfire season.