Hidden under a quaint resort 60 miles northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, lies a treasure trove of potential energy that's free and available 24/7.
Four tropical cyclones, two major earthquakes with accompanying tsunamis, all occurring around the Western Pacific and Southern Asia within one day.
There is more water on the moon in more locations than originally thought, a discovery that may bolster NASA's long-held goal of setting up an outpost there, a researcher said Thursday.
Elmo and Gordon want you to wash your hands so you don't catch the flu.
Continental shelves beneath the retreating polar ice caps of the Arctic may hold almost double the amount of oil previously found in the region, scientists say.
President Obama has accepted the resignation of Louis Caldera, the director of the White House Military Office responsible for the controversial low-altitude flyover of New York by a 747 plane used as Air Force One, the White House said Friday.
A "furious" President Obama has ordered a review of the decision to fly a Boeing 747 frighteningly close to the lower Manhattan skyline, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.
Alaska's Mount Redoubt towers more than 10,000 feet above sea level, is an active volcano and can send clouds of ash so high that jetliners could be at risk.
Procedure: Direct students to their textbooks and online resources to learn about what causes earthquakes and the scale used to measure an earthquake's magnitude. Then, organize students into small groups and assign each group one year between 1999 and 2009. Refer groups to print and online resources to learn more about the most significant earthquakes that took place in their assigned years. On a large map of the world, have students mark (with small circle stickers or markers) the locations of these earthquakes. Based on their observations, have students make hypotheses about why earthquakes occur where they do.
It's 3 degrees and snowing outside the Alaska Volcano Observatory in Anchorage, but inside the operations center, things are heating up.
Hidden under a quaint resort 60 miles northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, lies a treasure trove of potential energy that's free and available 24/7.
Four tropical cyclones, two major earthquakes with accompanying tsunamis, all occurring around the Western Pacific and Southern Asia within one day.
There is more water on the moon in more locations than originally thought, a discovery that may bolster NASA's long-held goal of setting up an outpost there, a researcher said Thursday.
Elmo and Gordon want you to wash your hands so you don't catch the flu.
Continental shelves beneath the retreating polar ice caps of the Arctic may hold almost double the amount of oil previously found in the region, scientists say.
President Obama has accepted the resignation of Louis Caldera, the director of the White House Military Office responsible for the controversial low-altitude flyover of New York by a 747 plane used as Air Force One, the White House said Friday.
A "furious" President Obama has ordered a review of the decision to fly a Boeing 747 frighteningly close to the lower Manhattan skyline, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.
Alaska's Mount Redoubt towers more than 10,000 feet above sea level, is an active volcano and can send clouds of ash so high that jetliners could be at risk.
Procedure: Direct students to their textbooks and online resources to learn about what causes earthquakes and the scale used to measure an earthquake's magnitude. Then, organize students into small groups and assign each group one year between 1999 and 2009. Refer groups to print and online resources to learn more about the most significant earthquakes that took place in their assigned years. On a large map of the world, have students mark (with small circle stickers or markers) the locations of these earthquakes. Based on their observations, have students make hypotheses about why earthquakes occur where they do.
It's 3 degrees and snowing outside the Alaska Volcano Observatory in Anchorage, but inside the operations center, things are heating up.
Human-induced global warming is real, according to a recent U.S. survey based on the opinions of 3,146 scientists. However there remains divisions between climatologists and scientists from other areas of earth sciences as to the extent of human responsibility.
Scientists have discovered methane in Mars' atmosphere, raising the possibility that life might exist on the planet.
When SunPower, one of the country's largest makers of solar panels, went looking to build a factory a few years back, several countries vied for their business.
One of the planet's most fragile and pristine ecosystems sits atop a bounty of untapped fossil fuels.
Brazil, Spain and China are rushing to explore and drill on the impoverished communist nation. Will the yanquis come around too?
Utah geologists say they have discovered prehistoric animal tracks so densely packed on a 3/4-acre rock site, they're calling it a "dinosaur dance floor."
Dr Jan Zalasiewicz is the author of "The Earth After Us -- What legacy will humans leave in the rocks?" His book examines what might remain of our civilization in the strata 100 million years from now, and how aliens might piece together the story of the planet and our brief but dramatic impact on it.
The drilling rig rose incongruously over the peaceful college town of Stillwater, Okla. It roared and screeched with activity. Roughnecks, slathered head to toe in mud, scrambled and cursed a blue streak as they threw chain and tripped out two-ton stands of pipe. D.G., a.k.a. "Stretch," a good-natured chain hand, weighed in with a salvo of riotously profane slander, largely addressed to his fellow oil drillers. It could have pinned back the ears of the most depraved drill sergeant on earth. It could have peeled paint.
Will NASA's flagship mission to Mars fly next year? The space agency could decide as early as Friday whether to cancel, delay or proceed with plans to launch a nuclear-powered, SUV-size rover to the red planet
When companies as savvy and as important as General Electric and Google join forces, it's worth a closer look. The companies say they will work together to drive two industries with big growth potential: geothermal energy and the upgrading of the nation's overburdened electricity grid.
Matt Simmons is as perplexed as anyone that it has fallen to him to take on OPEC, Exxon, the Saudis, and all the other misguided defenders of conventional wisdom in the oil patch. Why should one investment banker with a penchant for research be required to point out what he regards as the obvious - that from here on out, oil supplies can't meet demand, and if we don't act soon to solve this crisis, World War III could be looming?
Direct students to their textbooks and online resources to learn about what causes earthquakes and the scale used to measure an earthquake's magnitude. Then, organize students into small groups and assign each group one year between 1999 and 2008. Refer groups to print and online resources to learn more about the most significant earthquakes that took place in their assigned years. On a large map of the world, have students mark (with small circle stickers or markers) the locations of these earthquakes. Based on their observations, have students make hypotheses about why earthquakes occur where they do.
Global warming is a slow, imperceptible process. On a tour of Greenland, a TIME reporter almost sees it happening
Icelandic President Olafur Grimsson opened the Doha debate by naming energy as the most fundamental question of the 21st Century.
This was, to be honest, simply a different kind of journalism. I've never done anything quite like it.
It's 25 below outside, and the heat in the van is busted. Randy Boyer, a burly ConocoPhillips contractor in thermal coveralls, navigates the slick ice road. "This is nothing," he says, keeping his eye on the thin red line running down the center of the road. "The other week we had a whiteout, and I was stuck in my truck for 36 hours." Right now we're some 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle, and it's so white outside that the distant horizon appears to blend seamlessly into the blustery sky.
California faces an almost certain risk of being rocked by a strong earthquake by 2037, scientists said Monday in the first statewide temblor forecast
Tsunami-like waves created by an earthquake may have triggered the world's largest known hydrothermal explosion some 13,000 years ago, a federal scientist says
Half a mile below the red-rock African landscape, mine manager Charl Geldenhuys points to an array of fluorescent-orange circles spray-painted at a dark tunnel's rocky end. "That's where we blast tomorrow," he shouts over the din of a machine drilling dynamite holes.
Most people have an inkling that if you drilled down to the Earth's core, it would feel pretty hot down there -- around 5,500 degrees Celsius (9,932 degrees Fahrenheit) to be precise, in fact, according to Greenpeace. (Nearer the Earth's surface, however it is a more bearable 10-16 degrees Celsius (50-60 degrees F) all year round.)
Oil companies are blamed (unjustly) for high gas prices, loathed for profiting from them, and criticized for their environmental record. So it's no wonder that most industry CEOs have made themselves scarce. Chevron's David O'Reilly is the exception. He regularly talks to reporters and appears on television to answer questions about Chevron and the industry.
Geothermal energy is often considered a clean, sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. However, some raise concerns regarding the environmental impact of the operation due to the significant amount of land needed to harness the energy.
True or False: One of geothermal energy's biggest fans is U.S. President George W Bush who has a geothermal system installed in his Texas home
An international team of earthquake specialists says Indonesia faces another potential "giant" quake in the near future.
Diamonds more than 4 billion years old -- nearly as old as the Earth itself -- have been discovered in Western Australia, giving scientists vital clues about the early history of our planet.
The AHA! moment arrived over breakfast in an Orlando diner. James Gordon and John Waddell were trying to develop a product designed to protect lives and property from the deadly effects of bombs an...
Matt White is a Triple A pitcher bidding to become the Los Angeles Dodgers' left-on-left specialist, the guy who strides out of the bullpen to face Mr. Barry Bonds or Mr. Carlos Delgado. In the sixth inning of a somnolent spring training game, however, White encounters Detroit Tigers utility infielder Mark Haske, who hit .239 with one home run in A ball last year and is no bigger than Ryan Howard's thigh. Still, a lefty hitter is a lefty hitter. White, who has been lowering his arm angle to broaden the bend on his curveball, gets ahead 0 and 2 with Frisbee curves, misses with two overhand fastballs, induces a weak foul ball with a sidearm hook and finally strikes out Haske with over-the-top, 92-mph heat. "He could have been Bonds and the pitches wouldn't change," White says later. "It's a 3-3 game. I'm not worried about velocity. I'm looking for location and execution of pitches." He throws two hitless innings, striking out three, the type of airtight outing that, if it came in the chill of October, might
Two earthquakes struck off the southwest coast of Taiwan on Tuesday, the second anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster that left more than 200,000 dead.
NASA started it all back in 1976 with an image of an interesting mountain on Mars and a caption that described it as appearing to have eyes and nostrils.
Commodities are hot again -- which is revitalizing the market for Bolivia's $2 billion in gold reserves.
New dating of lunar rocks add to a growing body of evidence that the moon and Earth were pelted by a flurry of large meteorites during a relatively brief geologic time span about 3.9 billion years ago.
The e-mails are quite tantalizing, if a big familiar: "I have done extensive research on this company and believe it to be a huge opportunity to make five to ten times my money...." Or: "Have gotte...
The e-mails are quite tantalizing, if a bit familiar: I have done extensive research on this company and believe it to be a huge opportunity to make five to ten times my money.... Or: Have gotten all my children into the stock because I think it has such great potential.
The petroleum age dawned on a Texas hill called Spindletop more than 100 years ago. The first predictions of the demise of oil weren't far behind. Today's talk of looming oil scarcity and permanent...
After the sun and the moon, Venus is the third brightest body in our sky, and because of this it received lots of attention from all the great ancient civilizations, including the Mayans, the Egyptians, and the Greeks.
Recent earthquake activity in California has prompted fresh speculation about "the big one" -- an enormous quake along California's West Coast.
Nuclear energy is uniquely suited to contribute to the growing energy challenge -- environmentally, economically and geo-politically.
Why do some earthquakes spawn tsunamis that kill thousands while others hardly stir a ripple on the ocean surface?
The asteroid that struck the Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years ago presumably initiated the extinction of the dinosaurs. The huge collision also unleashed a worldwide downpour of tiny BB-sized mineral droplets, called spherules.
Scientists were flying over the crater of Mount St. Helens on Wednesday to locate the origins of a plume of ash and steam that spewed nearly seven miles high into the air Tuesday night.
Ventura County Sheriff Bob Brooks declared Thursday that the rescue mission has ended at the site of a mudslide that killed 10 people this week in the coastal community of La Conchita.
Scientists have proposed a scheme to introduce a series of planetary parks on Mars that would see areas of the Red Planet transformed into conservation zones.
A new lava dome inside Mount St. Helens' crater has sprouted a growth that extends upward nearly 330 feet, U.S. Geological Survey officials said Saturday.
Martian rovers Spirit and Opportunity are going strong 10 months after they began their geological study of the red planet, mission scientists said Thursday.
Geologists warned late Monday that two small eruptions of steam and ash from Mount St. Helens earlier in the day were likely precursors of a much larger explosion that could soon occur.
Seismologists were watching Mount St. Helens closely late Sunday after unusual seismic activity during the weekend led them to predict an eruption was imminent.
The U.S. Geological Survey issued a volcanic advisory Wednesday for Mount St. Helens with officials warning of a heightened possibility of a small to moderate eruption.
Life is hard. For some, it's almost impossible.
In 1956 a grouchy, iconoclastic shell Oil geologist named M. King Hubbert forecast that U.S. oil production would peak by the early 1970s. The general reaction to his prediction was disbelief and r...
NASA decided to roll the dice on Mars this Tuesday by dispatching its rover Opportunity into a crater from which it may never escape.
Scientists said Thursday they think the greatest extinction of plant and animal life may have been caused by a meteor that slammed into an area off what is now the coast of northwestern Australia 250 million years ago.
The Mars rover Opportunity is perched above a crater that researchers said could open up a window into the mysterious -- and possibly wet -- history of the Red Planet.
A salty sea once washed over the plains of Mars at the Opportunity rover's landing site, creating a life-friendly environment more earthlike than any known on another world, NASA scientists announced Tuesday.
A salty sea once washed over the plains of Mars at the Opportunity rover's landing site, creating a life-friendly environment more earthlike than any known on another world, NASA scientists announced Tuesday.
Mission accomplished: NASA scientists say the Mars rovers have found what they were looking for -- hard evidence that the red planet was once "soaking wet."
The disappearance of the dinosaurs may not be as neat and tidy as the animals being wiped out by a huge asteroid 65 million years ago.
The Mars rover Opportunity has moved to the lip of the crater in which it landed and peeked out over the rim, mission scientists say.
If you've had a sip of Poland Spring Natural Spring Water over the past seven years, then you, like me, are a plaintiff in a class-action suit that recently settled. (Congratulations!) If you have ...
The Mars rover Opportunity rolled off its lander early Saturday, beginning the next phase of its mission to study the rocks and soil of the Martian surface for signs of water.
While NASA's Spirit rover is in rehab, its twin, Opportunity, is sitting near rock formations on the other side of Mars that could be a "Holy Grail" for geologists, mission scientists said Monday.
The Mars Spirit rover turned a camera back toward the lander that carried it safely to the Martian ground 18 days ago and snapped pictures that were released Wednesday by Jet Propulsion Lab engineers in Pasadena, California.
The Mars rover Spirit stretched its robotic arm over Martian soil Friday, and its microscopic imager is capturing even-higher-resolution images than the ones sent back after landing.
A NASA robot rumbled from its lander onto the surface of Mars on Thursday, a crucial first step in a mission to investigate alien rocks and soil for evidence of water and perhaps life.
Mission managers are preparing to roll the Mars rover Spirit off its lander early Thursday, positioning it for departure down a rear ramp.
Mission managers are making final preparations to roll the Mars rover Spirit off its lander later this week, among them cutting the last cable tying it down.
On its first full day on Mars, a NASA craft beamed back a three-dimensional panorama of its new home, a tantalizing hint of the capacity of the most sophisticated eyes ever to scan the red planet surface.
The robotic explorer Spirit woke up to its first full day on Mars on Sunday, hours after making a perilous landing, sending postcards to Earth and taking a much deserved snooze.
A NASA robotic explorer touched down on the red planet Saturday night, sending a signal home that it survived the risky descent through the Martian atmosphere and bouncing landing.
I was in Mongolia, doing your standard business interview with a local gold-mining executive named Myanganbayar, when a member of the band he sponsors walked into the conference room, wearing a tan...
In the quiet waters off the coast of Vietnam lies an area known as Bach Ho, or White Tiger Field. There, and in the nearby Black Bear and Black Lion fields, exploration companies are drilling more ...
Jesus mania swept Liberia. For eight nights last December the nation's TV channels--both of them--simultaneously showed programs created by Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network. There was...
Tim Ling well recalls the ten-year reunion of his Stanford Business School class in the fall of 1999. Tech was at its peak, along with the egos and net worths of many classmates. The venture capita...
Sixty miles off the coast of Louisiana, 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, and 15,000 feet farther down into the earth's crust, lies--as anyone hunting for oil will tell you--a big...
The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory is only 18 miles north of Wall Street, but it runs on an entirely different clock. At the abbey-like research center overlooking the Hudson River, events that u...
Paul Stephens has dodged more than one golden bullet. Among this country's most prominent cheerleaders for gold stocks, Stephens could have been creamed this year when two of the hottest names in t...
Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold, the New Orleans-based mining company that became Bre-X's partner, was among the scam's big victims. FORTUNE's Richard Behar caught up with Freeport's outspoken Texas...
When I stepped off the plane in Jakarta, I was, like the rest of the world's lemmings, swept up in the Bre-X Minerals euphoria. The Canadian company had found the largest gold deposit of the centur...
What makes one job better than another? High pay? Prestige? Pleasant working conditions? Or, these days, might the clincher be job security? The answer is that there is no single deciding factor. T...
THE ARCTIC National Wildlife Refuge is almost as big as Indiana. It begins as a phalanx of magnificent rocky peaks high in the Brooks Range in Alaska's northeast corner, from there tumbling down a ...
If Edgar Capen's enthusiasm is catching, the Macintosh should make it big in offices. Though he would not call himself this, he is Arco's resident curly- haired creative genius, one of the guys top...
T. BOONE PICKENS ought to know. The founder of Mesa Petroleum set out 30 years ago to find oil with $2,500 and an old station wagon. He found lots of it, but now he says, ''You'd have to be crazy t...
| Most Viewed | Most Emailed | Top Searches |
Video
Photos
