Russell McLendon is a science writer with expertise in the natural environment, humans, and wildlife. He holds degrees in journalism and environmental anthropology. Within minutes of any major ...

Scientists are surveying "mass wasting," a unique geological phenomenon of the Red Sea, to identify active fault-line activity along fossil coral reefs and sediment levels. They say that their ...

When a flaw or a mistake is made about something or someone, what happens next is quite interesting and important to understand. First, one might admit the truth of a blunder. Then, if possible, begin ...

Scientists and the oil and gas industry have known about induced seismicity, or induced earthquakes, since the 1960s. One early and telling example was the disposal of warfare chemical waste in a deep ...

Survey wind turbine manufacturers about how to calculate wind farm availability and you will get countless different definitions and exceptions to the rule. “There is a discrepancy between the ways ...

In the wake of the devastating loss of life in Japan, the urgent question is where the next big earthquake will hit. To answer it, geologist Prof. Zvi Ben-Avraham and his doctoral student Gal Hartman ...