NZ quakes, tsunami warnings
Threat of tsunamis prompts widespread North Island evacuations.
New Zealanders woke this morning to a series of earthquakes. The largest of them, an 8.1 magnitude quake centred near...
New Zealanders woke this morning to a series of earthquakes. The largest of them, an 8.1 magnitude quake centred near...
Scientists have tracked the behaviour of one of the world’s most active volcanoes over 13 years, revealing the first-...
About 42,000 years ago, a reversal of the Earth’s magnetic poles triggered massive climate shifts and caused environm...
Human activities and population growth have wrought much destruction to life on Earth. But when it comes to megafauna...
A devastating flood last week on the upper reaches of the Rishi Ganga River, in India’s northern state of Uttarakhand...
Sticky explanation Most of us have had the experience of the food we’re cooking sticking to a non-stick frying pan...
Paul Crutzen, Nobel laureate and one of the world’s most distinguished climate scientists, died on 28 January 2021, a...
It’s not often you can click play and watch deep time unspool before your eyes. An international team of scientists h...
Australia is faced with multiple environmental crises. Catastrophic bushfires are becoming more frequent and intense,...
Sand dunes aren’t just simple piles of sand, as we’ve noted before in Cosmos. Earlier this year we reported on res...
About 160 kilometres off the Queensland coast, the RV Falkor is exploring the deep blue waters of the southern Great ...
By Jamie Burton, Alexander Filkov and Jane Cawson, University of Melbourne The 2020-21 fire season is well underwa...