The Environment

Russia’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake spawned serious tsunami warnings, but waves have been moderate so far. Here’s the geological reason why

Russia’s earthquake was estimated at magnitude 8.8, among the strongest since scientists began monitoring

The White House has now fully embraced bomb-prone nuclear fuel technology. This should stop before an arms race, atomic terrorism or even nuclear war results

Water usually flows downward, but something strange happened under Greenland’s ice sheet when a deluge punched through the surface to scour an area nearly twice the size of New York’s Central Park

A vector ecologist explains the complexities of tracking tick-borne diseases like Lyme in a climate-changed world

Extreme weather is front-page news. But what are the phenomena behind the headlines?

Tsunami warnings and advisories were issued around the Pacific Ocean after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia, the largest earthquake since the 2011 earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan

Microwave satellite data that are key to capturing changes in a hurricane’s strength will not be taken from meteorologists as originally planned

The Trump administration is releasing its proposal to undo the “endangerment finding,” the long-standing rationale and legal imperative for regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act

Records are starting to fall to the continuing heat dome that is covering much of the eastern U.S.

Tens of millions of people are already under heat alerts, and the worst is yet to come

Think: subzero temperatures, bone-rattling storms and mysteries about the future of our planet under the ice.