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More than a million tiny earthquakes revealed in Southern California
By putting millions of tiny quakes on record, scientists hope to learn more about what triggers the big ones.
By Carolyn Gramling | 2:00pm, April 18, 2019
Antarctica
Science Visualized | Earth
Warm, dry winds may be straining Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf
By Jeremy Rehm | 6:00am, April 18, 2019
iceberg
News | Earth
Antarctica’s iceberg graveyard could reveal the ice sheet’s future
By Carolyn Gramling | 9:00am, April 09, 2019
Pyroclastic flow in an eruption
News | Earth
How deadly, fast-moving flows of volcanic rock and gas cheat friction
By Maria Temming | 11:00am, April 08, 2019
central Tibetan Plateau
News | Earth
The ‘roof of the world’ was raised more recently than once thought
By Carolyn Gramling | 6:00am, March 11, 2019
thunderstorm
News | Earth
Muons reveal the whopping voltages inside a thunderstorm
By Emily Conover | 7:00am, February 15, 2019
Greenland ice sheet
News in Brief | Earth
Greenland may have another massive crater hiding under its ice
By Carolyn Gramling | 10:06am, February 12, 2019
larsen c and iceberg A68
News | Earth
An Antarctic expedition will search for what lived under the Larsen C ice shelf
By Carolyn Gramling | 2:59pm, February 08, 2019
flooded road
News | Earth
2018 was the fourth-hottest year on record, and it’s getting even hotter
By Jeremy Rehm | 6:48pm, February 06, 2019
Kilauea lava flows
Feature | Earth
Five explosive things the 2018 eruption taught us about Kilauea
By Jennifer Leman | 7:00am, January 29, 2019
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