JOSHUA LINN 
A wall of water races toward the shore at the speed of a jetliner, silent and nearly invisible in the open ocean. For coastal communities around the world, understanding how do tsunamis form is not just science: it is a matter of survival. What Is a Tsunami A tsunami is a series of enormous ocean … Read more
On a humid August morning off Key West, a dark spot appears on the water. Within minutes, a spinning column of mist stretches from the sea to the clouds, twisting slowly as a charter boat angles away at full throttle. The captain knows something most people do not. This is a waterspout. The Florida Keys … Read more
On July 6, 2026, the eyewall of Super Typhoon Bavi passed directly over the island of Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands with sustained winds of 180 mph. It was the strongest storm to strike the US Pacific territory in nearly four years, and it was only getting started. Over the next eight days, Bavi … Read more
You are sitting on the porch on a humid July night. A cold drink sweats in your hand. The air hangs still. Stars blink overhead through the haze. Then it starts. A flicker on the horizon. Silent pulses of electric white, one after the next, painting the distant sky in brief flashes. No thunder follows. … Read more
In the winter of 373 BC, animals fled the Greek city of Helice. Rats poured out of granaries. Dogs refused to return home. Snakes and weasels abandoned their dens. Five days later, a catastrophic earthquake struck. The entire city sank into the Gulf of Corinth. The historian Thucydides recorded the exodus, then the destruction. More … Read more
Some of the most dangerous things you believe about weather were taught to you by people who meant well. Your grandmother told you lightning never strikes the same place twice. Your uncle swore by opening windows during a tornado. These weather myths debunked by modern science persist because they contain just enough physics to feel … Read more
How Animals Predict Earthquakes Science Reveals the Evidence On April 6, 2009, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake devastated the Italian city of L’Aquila, killing 308 people. Five days earlier, scientists studying animals predict earthquakes science collected data they did not expect: 96 percent of the male toads in a breeding pond had vanished. The best earthquake early … Read more
You check the weather every morning. It shapes what you wear, whether you grab an umbrella, and if a weekend trip gets the green light or the rain check. But the free weather app that came with your phone only scratches the surface. The best weather apps 2026 offer radar precision, hyperlocal data from backyard … Read more
On a July evening, you lean back on the porch and watch the horizon flicker. No sound follows. Just silent flashes threading through distant clouds. Someone beside you says it: “heat lightning.” The name has been passed down for generations. It is wrong. Heat lightning has nothing to do with heat. The term describes ordinary … Read more