The winners of the annual drone photography contest hosted by Skypixel, the photo-sharing community owned by drone maker DJI, show the alluring beauty of nature and the ways humanity inhabits it.
It has been more than ten days since Cyclone Idai touched down in Mozambique, and the death toll continues to rise.
On March 24, 1989 the Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground and spilled nearly 11 million gallons of oil in Alaska’s Prince William Sound.
This is it, apparently. The last supermoon of 2019.
A massive fire at a Texas petrochemical storage terminal will continue to burn and spew jet-black smoke for two more days, officials say.
The US midwest is grappling with swift, record-setting floods along the Missouri River, as massive downpours contribute to a waterway system already swelling from melting snow and ice from historic winter storms. Three people have already died in floods that have the river cresting to four feet above its last record depth.
Young people skipped school and took the streets in more than 100 countries today (March 15), begging leaders for action on climate change.
People around the world are denouncing the deadly terror attacks on two mosques in New Zealand,
As you’ve probably heard, Beto O’Rourke, a former Texas representative and failed US Senate candidate, formally announced his presidential campaign on Tuesday (March 13), informing a local Texas TV station of his intention to run via text message.
A boon to nature lovers and wide-brimmed-hat-clad influencers alike, “super blooms” are caused by heavy rains in typically dry regions. The rains soak seeds of annual flowers that are left dormant in the earth. When springlike weather comes around, an explosion of colorful flowers follow.
A days-long, nation-spanning power outage has compounded Venezuela’s dire humanitarian conditions. The outage began on Thursday (March 7) and as of today (March 11) is still underway, with little hope in sight for an immediate solution.
Today (March 10) marks the 60th anniversary of the 1959 Tibet uprising against Chinese rule. The rebellion ultimately failed, leading to the decades-long exile of the 14th Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader.
Throughout the saga of resignations and reorganizations of Brexit, few figures have had nearly the shelf life as one of Brexit’s most loyal opponents. Known as “Mr. Stop Brexit,” Steve Bray has kept up his near-daily protests outside London’s Houses of Parliament, 10 Downing Street and other loci of power for the past few years since the 2016 referendum.
Smithsonian.com recently announced the finalists of its annual photo contest, which honors entries in categories including “Travel,” “People,” and “The Natural World.” But the images in the “Mobile” category, shot exclusively with smartphones, may be the most interesting.
A series of brutal tornadoes, packing 150 mile-per-hour (241 km per hour) winds, have killed at least 23 people in Alabama since they touched down yesterday (March 3).
Donald Trump’s summit meeting Kim Jong Un in Vietnam ended abruptly with no resolution of US concerns over North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. At the concluding press conference in Hanoi, Trump—who brands himself as a master dealmaker—said “sometimes you have to walk.”
Greenland’s massive expanse of ice and snow stretches over 800,000 sq miles (about 1.3 million sq km), with very little of it easily reachable over land. To survey its varied topography, continually under threat from climate change, researchers at NASA routinely conduct research flights over Greenland’s icy coasts and interiors.
Donald Trump is set to arrive in Hanoi today (Feb. 26) for a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Nature-loving photographers are flocking to California’s Yosemite National Park to witness a particularly unique phenomenon that shimmers for a brief moment of winter.
The 1990s were an explosive period for the personal computer. A chief reason: Microsoft. While it wasn’t a computer maker like IBM or Apple, its Windows operating system was the introduction to computers for millions of people.
Australia is in the midst of a punishing drought that is kicking up massive dust storms and severely impacting the merino wool, wine and cattle industries. The state of Queensland was recently inundated with flood waters after the parched region received almost two weeks of rain. The flooding killed possibly hundreds of thousands of cattle.
The Sony World Photography Awards, a massive competition that honors the best images from more than 300,000 submissions, has announced its shortlist.
NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover has been exploring the surface of the red planet for 15 years, though there are doubts about the future of its mission.
The 143rd Westminster Dog Show, the oldest one in the US, crowned King, a Wire Fox Terrier, as “Best in Show” in New York City last night (Feb 12).
