The world's only population of wild Devils Hole pupfish shrank to 38 members after two earthquakes greatly affected the ...

Earthquakes in December and February created waves in Death Valley National Park that devastated the habitat of one of the ...

At the western edge of the Mediterranean basin, a narrow land bridge once sealed off the Atlantic. We now call it the Gibraltar strait but 5.33 million years ago, it used to be a land bridge ...

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

A deadly tornado outbreak ripped through the South and Midwest Wednesday and Thursday, destroying homes and neighborhoods, ...

Atmospheric rivers are a weather phenomenon that appear like rivers in the sky: a narrow, long area of water vapour. World ...

Severe flash flood warnings have been issued across parts of the United States, with meteorologists warning of a potentially “historic one-in-1000-year” rainfall event. Over the next five days, the ...

Events that are predicted to be once in a lifetime or a once in 1,000 year event does have data behind the likelihood of an event happening. According to the weather service, a 100-year flood is ...

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, one statistic scientists use is the percentage chance that a flood of a specific magnitude will happen. A 500-year flood means such an event has a 1 in ...

Earlier this week, AccuWeather meteorologists warned of a 1-in-1,000-year flood posing threats to several ... week to impact the middle Mississippi Valley southwest through the Arkansas-Louisiana ...