A strong earthquake registered by the USGS as M6.0 hit Jujuy, Argentina at 10:01 UTC on October 10, 2023. The agency is reporting a depth of 246 km (152 miles). EMSC is reporting M6.0 at a depth of 255...
People up and down the Eastern Seaboard awoke to hazy skies Tuesday, with the culprit once again being wildfire smoke from Canada in what has been a historic and abnormally long-lasting season. The smoke drifted as far...
Typhoon Koinu, a storm equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane, was closing in on southern Taiwan after it strengthened more quickly than anticipated Wednesday. The storm, packing 130 mph sustained winds, is forecast to bring torrential...
An eruption at submarine Ruby volcano, near the southern end of the Mariana arc, was detected on Thursday, September 14, 2023. This was based on seismoacoustic signals from a monitoring station in Saipan and satellite...
The Indian state of Kerala is battling its fourth outbreak of the Nipah virus since 2018. Two people have died and nearly 800 people have been tested over the last 48 hours in the state's district...
We don’t want to alarm anyone, but the sun is broken. A section of the sun has left the surface and begun circulating around the top of the star as if it were a huge polar...
Early last week, Mohamed Eljabo travelled to the eastern provinces of Libya, passing through Derna, Al Bayda and Sousa, and what he saw he describes as “shock beyond comprehension”. “I have visited these cities before and I...
Researchers are sounding the alarm after a colony of red fire ants has been found in Europe for the first time, according to a new study. The red fire ant, whose scientific name is Solenopsis Invicta, is native to South...
Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in Libya that swept away entire neighborhoods and wrecked homes in multiple coastal towns in the east of the North African nation. As many as 2,000 people were feared...
Hurricane Idalia, which barreled through the Big Bend region of Florida late last month before battering other communities in Georgia and the Carolinas, thankfully wasn’t the cataclysmic storm that forecasters had feared days before. But the Category 3 hurricane,...