Lion Air plane carrying at least 189 people crashes after taking off from Jakarta ~transport Article 1135 words 12 votes
NDIS funds to be 'repurposed' for drought relief under Australian PM Scott Morrison's plan ~enviro Article 788 words 2 votes
Super typhoon Yutu, 'strongest storm of 2018,' slams US Pacific Territory ~enviro Article 463 words 10 votes
A fourteen-year-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico verges on becoming one of the worst in US history ~enviro pollution.water Article 2618 words 17 votes
Archaeologists have just unearthed an inscription in Pompeii that suggests the Ancient Roman city might have been destroyed a full two months later than previously thought. ~humanities.history Article 457 words 10 votes
Study of Puerto Rico rainforest shows massive, climate-driven decline in population of insects and insect-eating animals ~enviro climate change Article 1521 words 9 votes
Hurricane Michael showed how woefully unprepared the military is for extreme weather ~enviro climate change Article 1107 words 9 votes
Flash floods and landslides kill at least twenty-seven on Indonesian island of Sumatra ~enviro Article 326 words 3 votes
How Hurricane Michael could affect Florida’s high-stakes midterms ~misc politics Article 1342 words 7 votes
Oysters on the half shell are helping save New York's eroding harbor ~enviro recycling Article 1308 words 13 votes
Photos: What Hurricane Michael’s destruction looks like on the ground ~enviro Article 210 words 6 votes
Mount Vesuvius murdered its victims in more brutal ways than we thought ~science Article 970 words 4 votes
At least forty-eight killed after series of quakes and a tsunami hit Indonesia ~enviro Article 13 votes
National parks are getting hotter twice as quickly as the rest of the US ~enviro climate change Article 466 words 8 votes
Hurricane Florence, worries grow over half dozen nuclear power plants in storm's path ~enviro energy Link 23 votes
South Carolina’s inmates are stuck in Hurricane Florence’s path. Here’s what happened to prisoners who've been abandoned in previous hurricanes. ~life Article 500 words 9 votes
North Carolina didn't like science on sea levels…so passed a law against it ~enviro climate change Article 553 words 12 votes
Hurricane Florence isn't alone: Four powerful storms seen from space in one day ~enviro climate change Article 469 words 9 votes
South Carolina officials won’t evacuate prison ahead of Hurricane Florence ~enviro Article 410 words 13 votes
The entire island of Hokkaido in Japan is without power after a 6.7 magnitude earthquake ~enviro energy Article 223 words 17 votes
Melting glaciers are triggering the world's biggest tsunamis ~enviro climate change Article 1078 words 8 votes
Typhoon Jebi hammers Japan, injuring dozens and leaving a trail of destruction ~enviro Article 659 words 4 votes
Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during California wildfire ~tech Article 1840 words 17 votes
The engineer who designed the Genoa bridge that collapsed and killed forty-three people warned of its corrosion risk thirty-nine years ago ~engineering Article 655 words 22 votes
Scientists warn of the imminent depletion of groundwater in Chile’s Atacama desert ~enviro water.ground Article 1417 words 6 votes
Drought assistance to be dramatically ramped up by Turnbull Government ~enviro Article 1057 words 5 votes
'We've been warned': Swelling Northern Hemisphere heatwaves bring unprecedented fires ~enviro climate change Article 1172 words 8 votes
Halfway to boiling: The city at 50°C ~enviro climate change Article 1643 words, published Aug 13 2018 10 votes
Hotter, drier summers in Australia mean longer fire seasons – and urban sprawl into bushland is putting more people at risk ~enviro climate change Article 1448 words 7 votes
Sand mining: The global environmental crisis you’ve probably never heard of ~enviro Article 1572 words, published Feb 27 2017 13 votes
Underwater fiber-optic cables could moonlight as earthquake sensors ~tech Article 472 words, published Jul 11 2018 6 votes
Eritrea has slashed conscription. Will it stem the flow of refugees? ~news eritrea ethiopia Article 919 words, published Aug 8 2018 2 votes
Puerto Rican government acknowledges hurricane death toll of 1,427 ~enviro Article 957 words 19 votes
Scientists put a nuclear waste container through a demanding trip to see if the fuel would break ~tech Article 1619 words 7 votes
Mendocino Complex fire grows to become largest wildfire in California history ~enviro climate change Article 475 words 3 votes