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What's in the water? Kingsport resident expresses concern for Holston River
8+ hour, 3+ min ago (850+ words) What's in the water?...
Earthquake measuring 2.1 shakes area close to Valle Vista, CA on July 12
1+ hour, 31+ min ago (238+ words) Fresno Bee RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA - A preliminary 2.1 magnitude quake occurred near Valle Vista around midday Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The tremor, which struck the region at 11:42 a.m., was centered approximately 5 miles southeast of Valle Vista. It occurred at a depth…...
SFPUC in midst of Sunol Valley Water Treatment Plant upgrades
2+ hour, 1+ min ago (307+ words) The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s 30th annual “Water Quality Report” released last month, saying the city’s drinking water met or exceeded all federal and state standards in 2025 after more than 95,000 tests and giving updates on key developments at the Sunol…...
Ancient fossil may reveal first-ever 'right-handedness' in the animal kingdom
1+ hour, 42+ min ago (972+ words) Fossils of Spriggina floundersi from South Australia. Because the fossils preserve mirror-image impressions of the animals, a leftward bend in the rock indicates the animal turned right in life. (CREDIT: Scott Evans / AMNH) Spriggina floundersi was only a few centimeters…...
Earth’s inner core is not rock but a sphere of solid iron-rich metal, smaller than the Moon yet probably more massive. As the planet gradually loses heat, liquid metal freezes onto its surface, expanding it by roughly a millimetre each year.
1+ hour, 58+ min ago (705+ words) The centre of Earth is easy to imagine wrongly. It is not a cavern, not a furnace of molten rock, and not a smaller version of the mantle pressed into a ball....
Mountains 5 times taller than Everest are standing 1,800 miles beneath your feet, and the thing they are built from used to be the floor of an ocean that disappeared
7+ hour, 38+ min ago (726+ words) Every time you walk across your lawn, 1,800 miles beneath your feet stand mountains five times taller than Everest. They have been there for hundreds of millions of years, in total darkness, and nobody had ever mapped how far they reach....
Earthquake: 4.2 quake near Bakersfield
11+ hour, 31+ min ago (123+ words) A magnitude 4.2 earthquake was reported Sunday morning at 3:38 a.m. 25 miles from Arvin, according to the U.S. A magnitude 4.2 earthquake was reported Sunday morning at 3:38 a.m. 25 miles from Arvin, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake occurred 26 miles from Bakersfield, 26 miles from Bear…...
$100M wastewater plant expansion aims to meet Palm Coast growth demand - AOL
5+ hour, 46+ min ago (832+ words) PALM COAST — Months after approving a $330-million utility revenue bond, the city is starting to invest the money in what Utility Director Brian Roche called “one of the major steps” in improving Palm Coast’s wastewater systems. The City Council July…...
What happens to all the water after heavy rain in a storm and how does it affect the environment?
4+ hour, 34+ min ago (24+ words) Science 4 Everyone: What happens to runoff water after heavy downpours? NBC4 Washington Science 4 Everyone: What happens to runoff water after heavy downpours?...
Earthquake Rattles Kern and Humboldt Counties on July 11, 2026
8+ hour, 48+ min ago (232+ words) On July 11, 2026, two separate earthquakes were reported in California, with a preliminary 2.1 magnitude quake occurring near Johannesburg in Kern County and a 2.7 magnitude tremor near Ferndale in Humboldt County. The Johannesburg quake shook the area at 3:15 a.m., centered approximately 11 miles west-southwest…...