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They’re irks that are nothing more than a bother, a nuisance, even to a crusty old curmudgeon. But the one that’s right up there on the Richter scale, way beyond irks, the gnarly, ugly one, is racism.

Drawings by Cleo Revier and Clarence Peterson, two Rochester High School students, are among 747 prize-winning student ...

Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

Ominous clouds hovered over a field near Stamford, Texas, on Sunday, May 25, as the National Weather Service issued (NWS) a tornado warning. This footage, taken by Meri Cimbs, captures the gloomy ...

I don’t leave home without ‘em, which is why this week’s column is a travelogue of running the Big Island of Hawaii. Everyone’s somewhat familiar with Hawaii’s Ironman Triathlon in ...

Lava fountains reached heights of more than 330 feet (100 meters) and feeding multiple lava streams. Scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said the fountains were ...

Although it may seem like an exaggerated visual effect, lightning during a volcanic eruption is a real and documented phenomenon. It forms when ash particles, rock fragments, and g ...

And while the advisory assured that the “likelihood of an eruption continues to gradually decline,” the 11,000-foot-tall volcano remains at an “elevated state of unrest,” meaning that an “explosive ...

The explosion was the strongest since 2021, expelling ash, dust, lava and a pyroclastic flow, but no injuries or deaths were ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano put on a dramatic display Sunday night, shooting lava fountains over 1,000 feet into the air. The ...