Japan to Build Ice Wall Around the Fukushima Nuclear Plant Similar ice wall methods have been used before, but one of this size has never been tested!
Robots Designed to Clean Up Fukushima Reactors Have "Died" As soon as they got too close to the reactors, the radiation destroyed their wiring.
Scientists Can Now Produce Category 5 Hurricanes in a Lab Generating tropical storm conditions with the flip of a switch!
Geological Mystery Called the Menominee Crack Has Been Solved, Mostly It was the first ever recorded earthquake in Michigan’s aseismic region… weird!
The Physics of Snow Is Helping Scientists Predict Catastrophic Avalanches The slightest temperature change can turn a slow-moving avalanche into a deadly disaster, research shows.
Can Electric Signals in the Atmosphere Be Used to Predict Earthquakes? New finding may explain mysterious lights and spinning compasses that sometimes precede earthquakes.
Jet Planes Can Help Predict the Strength of Volcanic Eruptions It turns out they make the same noises, and that is extremely useful.
Scientists Can Now Tell the Difference Between Natural and Man-Made Earthquakes Earthquakes triggered by fracking increase in magnitude over time.