Wildfire goes wild in Arizona

As wildfires torch Western states, what is the role of global warming? Does hotter weather contribute to fires? Does the resulting More »

Exploring the big! volcano

How do scientists predict an eruption? Watch volcanologists track a giant, active volcanic field in Chile’s Andes Mountains. More »

How do hurricanes form? How do we predict their paths? How can we improve predictions? More »

We love accurate weather forecasts, but the weather satellites they rely on are nearing the boneyard. Some replacements have crashed More »

New instruments are giving a better view of how those astonishingly strong lightning bolts form inside clouds. More »

Are extreme heat, wicked cyclones and record rainfalls signs of climate change, or just more changes in the weather? Will warming More »

Aftershocks and triggered earthquakes both follow a large earthquake, and they don’t happen at random. Can lessons about the sequence More »

Oils in spent coffee grounds are easily converted into biodiesel — a renewable source of transportation energy. Bottoms up for More »

Construction matters. Hundreds of millions live and work in houses and schools that will collapse in the next earthquake. Chile and More »

How do hurricanes form? How do we predict their paths? How can we improve predictions? More »

Some call it Fall. Some call it spring. But nobody in the Midwest, East Coast or Northern Europe is calling it “winter.” What’s up? More »

Could something as simple, cheap and natural as a forest protect a coastline from a tsunami’s titanic wave? It’s looking that way… More »

As New Orleans sinks and the seas rise, hurricanes are getting worse. Could wetlands moderate the next Katrina? More »

Is global warming feeding hurricanes? Global warming has already raised sea levels. Is warming also making hurricanes more intense? More »

Monkeypox, AIDS, SARS: Are more diseases jumping from animals to people, or is it just our imagination? More »