It only takes a few decades for the supervolcano beneath Yellowstone National Park to fill with magma. When it erupts, it could cover much of the US in ash.
Staff Reporter
Oct 11, 2017
Authorities at the Bwabwata National Park suspect the death toll will go up as it is possible that some of the carcasses were eaten by crocodiles.
Vasudevan Sridharan
Oct 11, 2017
At least four wineries suffered "total or very significant losses," and at least nine reported damage to their winery, outbuildings or surrounding vineyards.
David Sim
Oct 11, 2017
"Using common sense and high-quality technology, we have developed a farm where... the environment is spared as much as possible."
James Tennent
Oct 10, 2017
IBTimes UK shares portraits and stories of survivors living in small towns near the epicentre of the earthquake that rocked Mexico on 19 September, killing at least 369 people.
David Sim
Oct 10, 2017
'Snowball Earth' is a hypothesis scientists use to describe a time when the entire surface of the planet was frozen.
Aristos Georgiou
Oct 10, 2017
Fifteen wildfires broke out almost simultaneously in Northern California, destroying homes, wineries and hotels and trailer parks. Seven died in Sonoma County. Two died in Napa County and one in Mendocino County. Death toll is expected to rise.
David Sim
Oct 10, 2017
Ex-Australian PM Tony Abbott has told London think tank the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) that climate change 'is probably doing good'.
Brendan Cole
Oct 10, 2017
Modifying corn could potentially benefit millions of people in low-income countries, who depend on it as a staple.
Aristos Georgiou
Oct 09, 2017
EPA chief Scott Pruitt announced that he would sign a rule on 10 October withdrawing the plan aimed at reducing CO2 emissions.
James Tennent
Oct 09, 2017
Tropical storm brought powerful winds and severe flooding to the southern US states after Nate landed near the mouth of the Mississippi River.
Isabelle Gerretsen
Oct 09, 2017
Hurricane caused serious flooding in southern US states but weakened on Sunday and was downgraded to a tropical storm.
Isabelle Gerretsen
Oct 08, 2017
The latest Atlantic hurricane is expected to make landfall on the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend.
India Ashok
Oct 07, 2017
Tesla CEO and real-life Iron Man wants to save Puerto Rico's broken energy network with his own solar power grid.
James Billington
Oct 06, 2017
Scientists have found a way to predict when Old Faithful will blow its top, sending steam up to 180 feet into the air.
Martha Henriques
Oct 06, 2017
Neonicotinoids contaminate the majority of honey in the world. Almost half of all honey samples contained more than one neonicotinoid.
Martha Henriques
Oct 05, 2017
As the giant iceberg keeps moving away from Antarctica, it is estimated to reveal 2,240sq miles (5,800sq km) of seafloor with a hidden ecosystem.
India Ashok
Oct 05, 2017
The technique could bring an economy based on hydrogen fuels - which only emit water - a step closer to reality.
Aristos Georgiou
Oct 04, 2017
In recent decades there has been less and less rain in central India – but the rain that does fall is coming down in increasingly extreme storms.
Martha Henriques
Oct 03, 2017
Since the break happened in July, Nasa had to rely solely on thermal images and radar-based data to observe the break and watch the motion of ice.
Immanuel Jotham
Oct 03, 2017
Beaches are leaching highly radioactive caesium.
Martha Henriques
Oct 02, 2017
Zealandia is believed to have broken off from Australia and Antarctica around 80 million years ago.
Shubham Sharma
Sep 30, 2017
The week's best photos, from Rohingya refugees and Mexico City earthquake, to Invictus Games, battle for Raqqa and Take a Knee protests.
David Sim
Sep 29, 2017
The US territory of 3.4 million people has struggled through nine days with virtually no electricity and shortages of fuel and clean water in the wake of the most powerful storm to hit the island in nearly 90 years.
David Sim
Sep 29, 2017
Vanuatu, home to about 260,000 people, is made up of about 65 islands on the geologically active Pacific Ring of Fire.
David Sim
Sep 28, 2017
Harnessing the power of evaporation could provide as much as 70% of the energy the US is currently producing.
Aristos Georgiou
Sep 26, 2017
Bali is being shaken daily by hundreds of tremors from the mountain, which volcanologists say indicates a high chance of an eruption.
David Sim
Sep 26, 2017
The new iceberg is believed to be unstable and has already broken into smaller chunks as it drifts into the sea.
India Ashok
Sep 26, 2017
The storm-battered US island territory has struggled through days with virtually no electricity, and more misery could be on the way thanks to a dam that might fail at any moment.
David Sim
Sep 25, 2017
Impacts from space may have been responsible for the first recycling of the Earth's crust.
Sep 25, 2017