Humanity lives on a thin edge: we barely scratch beneath the crust of our planet and routinely travel only within less than ...

Dams are important. In California, they generate 15% of our energy. They also provide storage for much of our drinking and ...

I always wanted to be a public servant and do science for the good of the people,” said Corina Allen, who lost her job at ...

Millions of tons of discarded electronics from the United States are being shipped overseas, much of it to developing ...

One of the most dangerous faults in the United States, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, may be able to trigger an earthquake on the San Andreas Fault, a new study says. But some scientists want more ...

It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.

In 2007, a massive landslide crashed into B.C.'s Lake Chehalis, triggering a tsunami that surged 38 metres up the shore — one ...

Everywhere in B.C. is considered at high risk in relation to the rest of Canada, according to organizers of the annual ...

On 30 July, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula triggered a tsunami that spread across the Pacific Ocean.

Chunks of river ice tore down trees after a landslide caused a tsunami in the Yukon in December. A landslide into a river in ...

Two powerful earthquakes hit southern Philippines causing fatalities, structural damage, tsunami warnings, and large-scale ...