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From Civil War battlegrounds to industrial landmarks to the country’s earliest national parks, these places helped shape the United States…
Relentless rains are threatening a lake in Kenya's Great Rift Valley that has become a key hub in the global…
Drifting sea ice fragments near Alaska’s Saint Lawrence and Nunivak islands and colorful water around the Yukon Delta heralded the…
The first named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season brought intense rainfall and the threat of flash flooding to…
Satellite observations of sea surface height indicated that the 2026 event continued to strengthen in early June.
A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar…
Drought and water releases drained the Arizona reservoir to levels that have led to widespread fish deaths.
The Nebraska Sandhills—the largest system of sand dunes in the Western Hemisphere—stretch across about one-quarter of the state.
Buoyant volcanic rock fragments from an underwater eruption drifted across the Bismarck Sea and choked island coasts.
