The geology around Kathmandu is ‘tricky’.

The 7.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal and north India today, causing at least 1,500 casualties and widespread d...

A timelapse of the historic eruption.

This timelapse is mixed with some other images of the two eruptions so far of the volcano. Calbuco volcano erupted o...

Anzac Day – 25 April – is not only the day when Australians honour their soldiers, for the country's wheat farmers it...

The recent slowdown in the rise of global average air temperatures will make no difference to how much the planet wil...

The eruption marks the first time since 1972.

The Calbuco volcano, one of the three most dangerous of the 90 in Chile, has erupted for the first time in 42 years. ...

Drew Turney reviews the film Planetary.

This bamboo forest in Kyoto is a place of great natural beauty that has been tended and protected by the humans who l...

Image of China’s Piqiang fault lines takes top honours.

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="417"] The winning image in NASA's Tournament Earth photo competition shows ...

Six-point plan will help restore reef.

Australia could restore the Great Barrier Reef to its former glory through better policies that focus on science, pro...

Heat produced by Arctic soil microbes could increase the thaw of permafrost and the release of carbon to the atmosphe...

The rate of ice loss in the West Antarctic is accelerating, with ice shelves shrinking at an alarming rate, according...

Image above from Mike Hollingshead on his website Extreme Instability. Climate scientists have long predicted that c...

Kilauea is the youngest and most-active Hawaiian volcano.

Lance Page has produced this study of the Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. He writes: "Many in Hawaii re...