Move over California, there’s a new earthquake capital. According to , Oklahoma had three times as many earthquakes as California and remains well ahead in 2015.Hydraulic facturing, or fracking, the process of drilling and injecting fluid into the ground at a high pressure to fracture shale rocks to release natural gas inside, is believed to be the major factor in increasing seismic activity in the Midwest. (MORE: )Though earthquakes have proven more deadly on the West Coast, none in the...

It's a case of the Hong Kong blues. The sight of the waters off Hong Kong these days can take your breath away. But, the haunting fluorescent blue seas are also deadly dangerous to marine life and potentially to humans. The glow is a kind of red tide that is caused by an algae marine biologists call "sea sparkle," a rare organism that can act both as animal and plant. The algae looks red in the daytime but shows up...

The video above shows aerosol emission and transport from September 1, 2006, to April 10, 2007. Also included are locations, indicated by red and yellow dots, of wildfires and human-initiated burning. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Humans across the globe are connected now more than ever before; actions taken on one continent can affect people on another. Now, scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and the California Institute of Technology (CIT) are showing this is true even for weather....