Their mission: to better understand how Antarctica’s climate is changing, and what it means for the rest of the planet.

“You’re the lamest man to ever walk planet earth. Honestly embarrassed to ever have considered you my idol.” This isn’t the first example of Trace’s complicated relationship with Billy Ray.

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An enormous asteroid—big enough to leave a six-mile-wide crater and darken the world with dust if it hit Earth—will harmlessly zip by our planet on April 29. The object, called 1998 OR2, is at ...

Fireflies in North America typically live east of the Rocky Mountains and prefer wet, humid climates over dry and arid ones. According to Firefly Conservation & Research — a nonprofit that works to ...

In 2022, National Geographic Society with the support of Rolex, launched the Perpetual Planet Amazon Expedition, a one-of-a-kind science and storytelling exploration of the world’s most vital ...

Courses Taught Seismology and Nuclear Explosions; Computer Applications; Environmental Science Seminar; Earth Dynamics; Seismic Exploration Methods; Continuum Mechanics; Geodynamics; Modeling Seismic ...