While record-breaking wildfires are raging across parts of North America, heavy rains have caused equally-heavy flooding on the east coast of North America and northern India, with a stalled storm causing inundations in Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Vermont, with over 14 million residents being underread more
The explosive eruption of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai underwater volcano in January was the largest explosion on record—either man-made or natural, rivaled only by the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa—and the largest volcanic eruption since Mount Pinatubo’s 1991 eruption, making for an event that ejected a massive amount of material high into the atmosphere.read more
Tropical Storm Ian has rapidly intensified into a hurricane as he approaches the U.S, and a Florida forecaster warns that it could be the storm of a “lifetime.” On Monday (September 26), evacuation orders were issued for some military personnel and residents as Ian whipped 80-mph winds and drew closerread more
A new study of Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier has revealed that it appears to be melting even faster than previous estimates indicated, with the face of the ice sheet now retreating at a rate twice as fast as previously recorded. Nicknamed the “Doomsday Glacier” by the researchers that study it, the Thwaites Glacier is aread more