The A68A iceberg was the biggest iceberg on Earth when it broke off. Now gone, it has dumped nearly 1 trillion tons of water into the ocean.
Author: Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY
Viral Olympian Pita Taufatofua helps home nation of Tonga recover from volcano: ‘I’ve got to stand up’
Tonga was hit with tsunami waves and covered in ash from an underwater volcanic eruption. Now it’s most famous Olympian is helping it recover.
Stephen A. Smith returns to ‘First Take,’ talks COVID-19 battle: ‘I didn’t know if I was gonna make it’
The ESPN personality said doctors told him if he wasn’t vaccinated against COVID-19, he would have died.
Stephen A. Smith returns to ‘First Take,’ talks COVID-19 battle: ‘I didn’t know if I was gonna make it’
The ESPN personality said doctors told him if he wasn’t vaccinated against COVID-19, he would have died.
Judge blasts 72-year-old cancer patient for overgrown lawn: ‘If I could give you jail time on this I would’
Burhan Chowdhury explained his cancer diagnosis made him very weak to care for his lawn, but Judge Alexis G. Krot told him he should ‘be ashamed.’
British woman swept away by wave while trying to save dogs is first Tonga tsunami death, family says
Angela Glover, 50, was killed trying to rescue dogs after a volcanic eruption sent tsunami waves to the Pacific nation of Tonga, her family says.
Rare blanket octopus spotted in ‘once in a lifetime’ encounter off Australian coast
Known for the cape-like webs enclosing its tentacles, the blanket octopus is a rarely spotted animal usually found in open ocean waters.
Connecticut teenager dies days after overdosing on fentanyl at school, police say
A 13-year-old was hospitalized after collapsing at a Connecticut middle school. Authorities said the teenager had overdosed on the opioid fentanyl
Oldest remains of modern humans are much older than thought, researchers say
Remains in Ethiopia were originally said to be about 200,000 years old. Scientists now say they are at least 230,000 years old.
For the first time, astronomers capture explosive, ‘very violent’ death of a giant star
While supernovas have been seen by humans before, they’ve only ever been detected after the explosion – until now.