The Greek island has a long history of earthquakes, but what is causing the recent series of quakes has scientists perplexed.

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Solar geoengineering, if weaponised, has the potential to deepen global inequality and escalate conflicts worldwide.

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According to scientists interviewed by CNN, humanity may be on the brink of a climatic chaos due to a potential super ...

Read about the volcano that some believe almost wiped humans off the planet Donald R. Prothero Our story begins on a very bad day about 74,000 years ago. The planet was starting to move out of one ...

Scientists warn the next massive volcanic eruption is not a matter of if, but when—and the world is woefully unprepared. Drawing parallels to the catastrophic eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815, ...

Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately drawn Sun motifs. Scholars now speculate that these stones might have been ...

Some 69 of these eruptions were larger than the Mount Tambora eruption of 1815 in Indonesia—the largest recorded eruption in human history. This data showed that some kind of eruption took place ...