Melting glaciers could trigger volcanic eruptions around the globe

Astonishingly, earthquakes shake the US state of California almost 9,000 times a year, on average – that’s about once every hour. California’s official nickname is the Golden State, harking back to th

Yes. On cosmic timescales, comets hit Earth frequently, but because they’re largely made of ice rather than solid rock, they tend not to leave obvious craters. A small comet is more likely than an asteroid to break up as it plunges into Earth’s atmosphere and heats up, often resulting in an explosion called an airburst that can devastate large areas of the landscape but doesn’t leave a crater. Perhaps the most famous such event happened over the Russian region of Tunguska in 1908, when an exploding comet flattened some 770 square miles of Siberian forest. A comet would have to be pretty big in order to hit the ground intact.

NATO’S TRACKING OF RUSSIAN S UBMARINES IN THE ARCTIC IS BEING AFFECTED BY CLIMATE CHANGE

For weeks this summer, firefighters have battled flames across Langdale Moor in the North York Moors National Park. The fire has scorched more than 2,000 acres – about 10 square miles – inland between

Not only has Earth been around for billions of years, it’s been keeping a log of its journey across time

A hidden tectonic fault in Canada’s Yukon could be gearing up to unleash a major earthquake of at least magnitude 7.5, according to a new study. The Tintina fault, which runs from northeastern British