Planet Earth - Page 441

December 5, 2017

Rising seas could submerge the oldest English settlement in the Americas

Sea-level rise this century may threaten Jamestown in Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas; the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which launches all of NASA's human spaceflight missions; and the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in North Carolina, the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States, a new study finds.

December 5, 2017

Supermoon 2017 in pictures

Supermoon wows sky-gazers for only time this year.

December 5, 2017

Bali volcano's 1963 eruption in pictures

Incredible photos show the devastating impact of the Mount Agung volcanic eruption on the Indonesian island of Bali in 1963.

November 30, 2017

Lightning bolts are churning out antimatter all over Planet Earth

Particles split in the hot belly of a lightning bolt.

November 29, 2017

Scientists call for global glitter ban to save environment

Scientists have called on the globe to ban glitter due to the damage it does to the environment.

November 28, 2017

A Swedish power plant is burning H&M rejects

H&M's fashions are on fire—literally, that is, in Vasteras, Sweden.

November 28, 2017

How did this weird, super-salty pond form in Antarctica?

At the bottom of the world, in a frigid Antarctic desert, sits a weird pond only a few inches deep that is so salty, it stays liquid even at temperatures of minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 50 degrees Celsius).

November 27, 2017

Bali volcano: What happened during the last major eruption at Mount Agung?

With the eyes of the world on erupting Mount Agung on Bali, experts are recounting the last major eruption at the Indonesian volcano.

November 27, 2017

Bali volcano: Lava pools up in crater, ‘will certainly spill over to the slopes’

Indonesian disaster agency says 100,000 people should evacuate expanded danger zone around Bali volcano.

November 27, 2017

Elon Musk is freaked out by the creepy backflipping robot

Elon Musk has repeatedly sounded the alarm against the rise of artificial intelligence as a threat to humanity. Now, the venerable tech exec has observed that Boston Dynamics' latest robot, which does backflips, is just the start of things to come.