Our Amazing Planet

Pine Island Glacier, the longest and fastest flowing glacier in Antarctica, has calved multiple icebergs, as can be seen in a series of photos.

A NASA satellite tracks Hurricane Matthew's approach toward Haiti.

In deep coral reefs off Hawaii are fish found nowhere else on Earth.

The Czech cave was first explored by the divers in 1999, but the abyss has now been access by a robotic vehicle and its depth measured. It is now the world's deepest.

Creeping light pollution may be affecting plants as well as animals.

A research vessel meant to ply the polar seas has been graced with the name Sir David Attenborough, though the public's favorite name, Boaty McBoatface, will live on.

Lightning flashing in the sky during volcanic eruptions stems both from ash and from ice, scientists find.

The roar of a volcano erupting on a remote Alaska island reveals important details about the blast, such as its size and location, a new study reports. And now scientists are listening.

Up to 12 massive volcanic blasts occurred between 8 million and 12 million years ago in Idaho's Snake River Plain, leading up to today's Yellowstone supervolcano, new research reveals.

A newly described species of frog is so small that it can sit comfortably on the tip of your thumb, and has a distinctive call that sounds like a cricket's chirp.

Some of these cataclysms changed history and climate.

A new study reveals how Greenland's unstable ice age climate was influenced by Atlantic Ocean currents.