Birth Pangs

Yom Kippur, the Jewish judgment day, is almost here, and three asteroids are set to come with it, according to NASA's asteroid tracker. The three asteroids will pass by the Earth on Monday, September 25, the day of Yom Kippur,...

Reports of “earthquake lights,” like the ones seen in videos captured before Friday’s 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Morocco, go back centuries to ancient Greece.These outbursts of bright, dancing light in different colors have long puzzled scientists, and there’s still no consensus on...

MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco, sending people racing from their beds into the streets and toppling buildings in mountainous villages and ancient cities not built to withstand such force. More than 2,000 people were killed,...

Rescuers were digging through rubble in remote mountainous areas of Morocco on Saturday after more than 1,300 people were killed in the deadliest earthquake to strike the country in decades. The 6.8-magnitude earthquake shook Morocco’s High Atlas mountain range shortly after 11 p.m....

New satellite images show just how little sea ice is left in the Antarctic after the hottest month on record. The continent is currently in the depths of winter, but the images posted by NASA Earth Observatory show a drastically lower amount...

In places still scarred by the devastation of recent storms, the anxiety and apprehension that come with the arrival of hurricane season pushes many people to search for any sign — some based more on superstition than science — that might...

Far away from mainland Australia sits the Territory of Heard Island, which hosts the great Big Ben volcano.Earlier this year that volcano was spotted spewing lava, an odd sight considering Heard Island sits just 1,500k kilometres from Antarctica.The icy continent,...

coral reef restoration group is warning that rising ocean temperatures are putting Florida's coral reef in danger of catastrophic loss. The Coral Restoration Foundation, a group centered around restoring and protecting Florida's coral reefs, said it visited the Sombrero Reef off the Florida Keys July...

A system of ocean currents could collapse anytime from 2025 onwards as climate change worsens, scientists have found.The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a large system of ocean currents that circulates water in the Atlantic, flowing warm water north...

Record heat is forecast around the world from the United States, where tens of millions are battling dangerously high temperatures, to Europe and Japan, in the latest example of the threat from global warming.Italy faces weekend predictions of historic...