April 27, 2016 Scientists discover hidden Antarctic lake A large, ribbon-shaped lake may be hiding beneath the ice that covers Antarctica, and it may contain countless life forms – unlike any others on earth – that have been trapped, undisturbed, in the frozen continent for millions of years.
April 7, 2016 Exploding stars leave radioactive clues beneath Earth's oceans During the past 10 million years, a series of stars in the Earth’s neighborhood exploded, raining a radioactive form of iron onto our planet that left its signature in the material beneath the world’s oceans.
March 29, 2016 USGS: Risk of earthquakes in 2016 increases, especially in Oklahoma The ground east of the Rockies is far more likely to shake this year with damaging though not deadly earthquakes, federal seismologists report in a new risk map for 2016. Much of that is a man-made byproduct of drilling for energy.
March 24, 2016 Glimpses of the Caribbean's modern-day Pompeii Known among locals simply as “the volcano,” Soufrière Hills on the Caribbean island of Montserrat roared to life in 1995 after decades of inactivity, causing many residents of the island's capital city, Plymouth, to flee. Today, Plymouth and its environs stand abandoned and frozen in time, looking like the set of an apocalyptic sci-fi movie.
February 1, 2016 Expedition to drill to center of Earth ends without success The expedition on the ship, the Joides Resolution, had set out to drill down to 4,265 feet in a stretch of ocean floor off Africa known as the Atlantis Bank gabbroic massif.
December 8, 2015 Deadly Pakistan quake creates new island A new island appeared off Pakistan after a deadly 7.7-magnitude quake struck Tuesday afternoon in Baluchistan province's Awaran district -- a dirt-poor expanse of land that is roughly the size of Wales.
December 7, 2015 Volcanic eruption creates new island far south of Japan A volcanic eruption has raised an island in the seas to the far south of Tokyo, the Japanese coast guard and earthquake experts said.
December 3, 2015 British researchers say their new Antarctic base can slide across ice on hydraulic skis British researchers have unveiled a futuristic Antarctic research base that can move, sliding across the frozen surface to beat the shifting ice and pounding snow that doomed its predecessors.
November 20, 2015 Scientists find an old tropical forest in the Arctic Bet you didn't know there was a tropical forest in the Arctic.
November 13, 2015 Scientists take a closer look at burping, booming deserts In his travel diaries, Marco Polo recounted how he often heard haunting sounds at night as he traveled through the Gobi desert. Now, researchers studying sand dunes in Death Valley National Park and the Mojave Desert are starting to unravel the mystery behind those sounds that have been described as moaning, roaring or squeaks after a sand avalanche.
