The apparent increase in flooding witnessed over the last decade appears in consideration to the long-term flood record not to be unprecedented; whilst the period since 2000 has been considered as flood-rich, the period 1970–2000 is “flood poor”, which may partly explain why recent floods are often perceived as extreme events.

June 19 used to be a hot day in the US prior to 1960, but temperatures have declined sharply over the past century. The five hottest June 19ths in the US were 1933, 1931 1910, 1936 and 1988 – the year Hansen predicted an increase in heatwaves before Congress.

Researchers working off the coast of Australia are cataloging rarely seen, and even some new, species that lurk in the depths of the ocean.

A new study shows lightning over the ocean–such as this strike in 2015 in California–can be much more powerful than that over land.

NASA used several dozen ground-based telescopes to scan an extremely unusual object more than a billion miles beyond Pluto in order to send a space probe there.

Uranus and Neptune have never got much attention from us – we’ve only passed each once and never hung around. But that could change. A NASA group has now outlined possible missions to make it to one of these outer worlds to gather data on their composition. This should teach us about them and similar planets in other solar systems.

The Northwest Passage is blocked by very thick ice in the Beaufort Sea.

DMI Modelled ice thickness

Researchers at Tulane University have developed a new map that details the varying rates at which land is sinking along the Louisiana coast.

On May 31, 2017, the world’s first commercial atmospheric carbon-capture plant opened for business in Hinwil, Switzerland.

Ancient sacrificial victims discovered at the Chinese archaeological site of Yinxu, 500 km south of Beijing, were probably kept as war captives before they were killed, archaeologists have said.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has claimed that building a self-sustaining colony on Mars is necessary to our future survival as a species.

Second Lady Karen Pence and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue recently teamed up to install a honeybee hive on the grounds of the Vice President’s residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. This will serve as a “great example” of what people can do to help “reverse the decline” in managed honeybee colonies around the country, the secretary said.

It’s been nearly 12 years or 4,253 days since the last major hurricane made landfall in the U.S., which is the longest such period on record.

While many have believed that an ill-placed meteor wiped out the dinosaurs, new research shows that may not have been the full story behind it.

It could have been the sun — or at least the sun’s brother.

The initial phases of animal evolution proceeded faster than hitherto supposed: New analyses suggest that the first animal phyla emerged in rapid succession – prior to the global Ice Age that set in around 700 million years ago.