Scientists warn that Lake Mead and Lake Powell are heading toward a system crash by 2028 if the Colorado River Basin has another dry year. The reservoirs serve 40 million people across seven Western states.
The Blue Moon rising this weekend is the second full moon of May 2026, which is already enough to qualify it as rare under the modern definition of the term. But this particular Blue Moon is also a micromoon, meaning it arrives near apogee, the farthest point in the moon’s ellipt
Scientists have produced the first climatological map of the wave-affected marginal ice zone, the dynamic, turbulent boundary where the Southern Ocean’s swells reach the edge of Antarctic sea ice and shake it, using a decade of advanced satellite radar data collected between 2013
A powerful El Niño is developing in the Pacific Ocean, and the first major test of how severe its effects will be could arrive as soon as early June, when monsoon season begins across much of the tropical world. Scientists are warning that this year’s weather pattern has the pote
The total solar eclipse that stops traffic, brings strangers together in fields and parking lots and sends people driving hundreds of miles to stand in the exact right spot for exactly two minutes of darkness in the middle of the day, that specific experience may be one of the mo
The sun fired a powerful M5.7 solar flare on Saturday May 10, 2026, launching a fast-moving coronal mass ejection, a massive cloud of charged particles, into space at approximately 650 kilometers per second. Most of that cloud is heading east of Earth and will miss our planet ent
A 53-year-old man died on the Mt. Wilson Trail in Sierra Madre on Saturday May 9, 2026, after suffering a medical emergency, making it the second consecutive Saturday that someone has died on one of Southern California’s most popular hiking routes. Police closed the trail at 10 A
Robert Irwin appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday May 6, 2026, to tell the talk show host that he had nearly been killed by a 14-foot, 700-pound crocodile. The crocodile’s name is Jimmy Fallon. Robert named it after the host when it was a baby, years befor
A 27-year-old Montana ranch wife named Callie has turned one of the most alarming living situations in rural America into one of the most watched stories on TikTok, and it is not hard to understand why. She lives in a farmhouse that is built on top of a garter snake den. Not near
A 15-foot crocodile was airlifted by helicopter from the Komati River in South Africa after authorities determined it likely contained the remains of Gabriel Batista, a 59-year-old hotel owner who went missing last week when his vehicle became stuck during heavy rainfall and he w
A hiker from Fort Lauderdale, Florida has been killed in an apparent bear attack inside Glacier National Park in Montana, the first human fatality from a bear at the park in 28 years. Anthony Pollio, 33, was reported missing Monday May 4, 2026, after failing to return from a solo
The Central Florida Zoo announced Tuesday May 5, 2026, that Dumpling, one of 13 sloths rescued from an unoccupied International Drive warehouse operated by the failed tourist attraction Sloth World, died Monday morning after 11 days of intensive veterinary care. It is the third s
In August 2023, a remotely operated vehicle called Deep Discoverer was exploring the floor of the Gulf of Alaska at a depth of more than two miles when it encountered something nobody could explain. Stuck to a rock among glass sponges near Walker Seamount was a golden, mound-shap
