A catastrophic 'superflood' following the rupture of a massive glacier-dammed lake in Canada at the end of the Ice Age probably plunged the world into centuries of climatic chaos.
Global climate change induced by humans is a 'weapon of mass destruction' at least as dangerous as nuclear, chemical or biological arms, a leading climate scientist has said.
Men are more than twice as likely to die during thunderstorms than are women, and most cases involve a vehicle or sports. These findings from a University of Pittsburgh study were presented Monday, April 28, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Safety in Numbers meeting in Atlanta.
The new wave in computing - super-fast machines churning out three-dimensional models viewable in high-tech, immersive theaters - may teach us more about the big waves that sometimes threaten people who live near the seashore.
A slow-moving earthquake recently observed on Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano could become a model for predicting catastrophic tsunamis in the Pacific, according to a new study by geophysicists from Stanford and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
