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Over the past several weeks there have been over two hundred earthquakes along the California – Mexico border. Many of these have been over 4.0 magnitude. USGS believes this cluster of quakes to be related to the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that occurred on April 4th, 2010.

Inupiat Eskimo whale hunter George Kingik follows news accounts of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He cringes when he imagines crude fouling his backyard, Alaska’s Chukchi Sea.

London’s two major airports were closed Monday as a cloud of ash from a volcano in Iceland moved east into England, British air authorities said.

If efforts fail to cap the leaking Deepwater Horizon wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico (map), oil could gush for years—poisoning coastal habitats for decades, experts say.

Four alpacas at an Alabama zoo are “donating” fleece to a group making hair-filled booms designed to keep spilled oil away from U.S. Gulf Coast shores.

Scientists have unearthed a new explanation for several low-gravity spots detected around the world. They’re blaming the anomalies on vast “slab graveyards” that lie buried deep near the planet’s core.

Six Spanish and French institutions are working jointly to put into action “The Origins Route”, a scientific dissemination project to develop a quality sustainable model for tourism in the Pyrenees.

The amount of explosive activity and ash production at the the Eyjafjallajökull volcano increased on Tuesday and was “strong,” says a daily report from the Icelandic Meteorological Office and the Institute of Earth Sciences at University of Iceland.

The extent of sea ice over the Arctic Ocean grew until the last day of March, the latest the annual melting season has begun in 31 years of satellite records, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center said.

The topography surrounding the Laguna Salada Fault in the Mexican state of Baja, California, is well shown in this combined radar image and topographic view generated with data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM).

A strong earthquake south of the U.S.-Mexico border Sunday swayed high-rises in downtown Los Angeles and San Diego and was felt across Southern California and Arizona, knocking out power and breaking pipes in some areas but causing no major damage.

People stand silhouetted as lava spurts from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull (pronounced AY-uh-full-ay-ho-kul) volcano on March 30, 2010—part of the ongoing eruption that started on March 21. (See more pictures of the Iceland volcano eruption.)

People stand silhouetted as lava spurts from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull (pronounced AY-uh-full-ay-ho-kul) volcano on March 30, 2010—part of the ongoing eruption that started on March 21. (See more pictures of the Iceland volcano eruption.)

IF SOME of the spectacular calving of ice shelves in Antarctica is down to global warming, then why did we not see break-ups on the same scale in Greenland, which is much warmer? It turns out that, counter-intuitively, it’s because Greenland is warmer.