A coiled rat snake.Photo: Hannah Gerke Fukushima’s wildlife has been intensely studied since the tsunami and nuclear disaster struck the region a decade ago. But in a new paper, scientists
Image: NOAA An 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska, roughly 60 miles southeast of the town of Chignik, triggering a tsunami warning for large parts of Alaska
A penis snake, or Typhlonectes natans, pulled from a Miami canal. Image: Noah Mueller DNA analysis confirms that an eel-like creature pulled from a Florida canal two years ago is
Photo: Susan Montoya (AP) Amid the West’s dire megadrought, there’s more bad news on the water front. Lake Powell, a crucial reservoir on the Colorado River, has now hit its
A picture shows the Olympic Flame and Cauldron next to the Japanese and Olympic flags during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games,Photo: Odd Andersen / AFP (Getty
Photo: Francois Nel (Getty Images) The Middle East, already on the edge of human habitability due to extreme heat, could become unlivable by mid-century due to rising temperatures and falling
Earthlings were privy to an exciting astronomical event last month: an annular solar eclipse, which cast a lunar shadow across the Arctic Circle. Today NASA shared an image of that
Researchers with an ice core drilled from the Guliya Ice Cap.Photo: Lonnie Thompson, The Ohio State University A team of microbiologists studying glacier ice in Tibet found 33 different viruses
The smoke is visible across the eastern half of the U.S. on satellite.Gif: NOAA/CIRA Millions of people across the U.S. and Canada woke up to smoke-choked air on Tuesday. The
Photo: PHILIP FONG / Contributor (Getty Images) Add “extreme heat” to the growing list of plagues facing this year’s Summer Olympics, an event I’m starting to suspect I would very
