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Scientists are getting better at predicting where massive earthquakes will strike
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (863+ words) Periollat, who spend their careers watching how Earth’s crust bends and shifts as tectonic plates lock...their approach on subduction zones, the places where one tectonic plate slides underneath another. These are the zones responsible for Earth’s biggest…...
How we talk to kids about nature can change how much they care
3+ week, 1+ day ago (862+ words) itself. Environmental educators tend to fall into one of two habits, often without noticing. Some frame...teacher covering a river ecosystem might default to one framing purely out of habit, with no real sense...stayed identical except the opening, which…...
California’s famous alien landscape seen from space
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (654+ words) jagged appearance. Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory reveals this famous landscape from...different perspective – hundreds of miles above Earth. The image was captured by the Operational Land...slabs dominate the view. From space, they become one…...
Researchers built a completely new tool to forecast earthquakes at a dangerous supervolcano
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1061+ words) following weeks. It also estimated how large the biggest one was likely to be. The work comes from Sebastian...catalog of 4,250 small events recorded since 2005. One pattern stood out. In every episode, serious shaking...
Fast-moving wildfires are pushing forests past the point of recovery
4+ week, 1+ day ago (668+ words) Fast-moving wildfires kill seed-producing trees, leaving western forests less able to recover and more likely to become shrublands or grasslands. Wildfires tearing across the American West and Canada may be burning so intensely that the hardest-hit forests never return to…...
The forces that trigger earthquakes
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1008+ words) separate causes, and the two are easy to confuse. One is the slow loading that builds up strain in rock...earthquake that struck Myanmar on March 28, 2025, the one caught on camera as the ground tore open. Chinese...
New Ice Age toad species identified at the La Brea Tar Pits
1+ week, 5+ day ago (830+ words) than a fingernail. Paleontologists have now used one such chip to name a new species of extinct amphibian...reptile material in the Tar Pits collection, which no one had examined carefully in nearly 30 years. One sacro-urostyle looked wrong. That bone…...
Tides can change dramatically from one beach to the next
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (1116+ words) every 330 feet. A tide table reads like a fact about one beach. Along most of the coast, the instruments...Pacific coastline. The tide doesn’t hold steady from one beach to the next. Michael Hart-Davis led the work...measures the height…...
California wildfire map reveals which homes face the greatest danger
4+ week, 12+ hour ago (1073+ words) pay for a fire-resistant roof when they can afford one. The wooden fence usually stays. A new study found...material that will not burn at all, while a 10 meant one that burns easily. Then they worked out how much...flame…...
Plants remember past temperatures to help them track the seasons
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (907+ words) instead of completing their entire life cycle in one season. The team focused on three genes called VIN3,...