A "ring of fire" is visible when the moon moves between the Earth and the sun. A new "ring of fire" annular solar eclipse is coming this October and will be visible Wednesday from South America. In ...

Many of the world’s biggest earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis occur along a chain of seismologically active regions that encircle the Pacific Ocean. By Victoria Kim Hundreds of millions of ...

Numerous batches of thunderstorms roll around the outside of hot domes of air. Michigan is easing into that line of thunderstorms over the next few days. We meteorologists like this weather pattern ...

The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29 may have been one of the 10 largest ever recorded on the planet, but it wasn't totally unprecedented. The ...

A young man watches a fellow soldier beat a dog with the butt of a rifle and another soldier shoot the dog’s owner—a pregnant woman—in cold blood, and simply calls the scene “war in all its horror.” ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

It’s a typical weather pattern in early August: High pressure is sitting over Texas, dominating our forecast. Meanwhile, weak atmospheric disturbances are moving clockwise around the center of the ...

The federal government has not responded to requests for comment since Ontario Premier Doug Ford called for Canada to abandon ...