Tag: Natural disasters
Volcanic eruption lights up Iceland after weeks of earthquake warnings −...
Lava erupted through a fissure in Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula on Dec. 18, 2023, shooting almost 100 feet (30 meters) in the air...
Volcanic Iceland is rumbling again as magma rises − a geologist...
Jaime Toro, West Virginia University
Thousands of earthquakes in recent weeks have shaken the Icelandic fishing town of Grindavík,...
Hurricane Hilary triggers Southern California’s first tropical storm warning ever, with...
Nicholas Grondin, University of Tampa
Hurricane Hilary headed for Mexico’s Baja peninsula and was forecast to speed into Southern...
2022’s US climate disasters, from storms and floods to heat waves...
Shuang-Ye Wu, University of Dayton
The year 2022 will be remembered across the U.S. for its devastating flooding and...
Homes that survived the Boulder County fire hid another disaster inside...
Colleen E. Reid, University of Colorado Boulder; Joost de Gouw, University of Colorado Boulder, and Michael Hannigan, University of Colorado Boulder
Dreaming of beachfront real estate? Much of Florida’s coast is at...
Zhong-Ren Peng, University of Florida
Back-to-back hurricanes left an unnerving scene on the Florida coast in November 2022: Several...
Hurricane hunters are flying through Ian’s powerful winds to forecast intensity...
Jason Dunion, University of Miami
As Hurricane Ian intensifies on its way toward the Florida coast, hurricane hunters are...
2022’s supercharged summer of climate extremes: How global warming and La...
Kevin Trenberth, University of Auckland
There’s an old joke about the fellow who has his left foot in a...