An April 1 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows two side-by-side videos. One displays water shooting up into the air accompanied by a loud, ominous sound. The other is a man describing what ...

On Jan. 15, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted, sending plumes of smoke and debris 20 miles in the air and pummeling the Pacific island nation of Tonga with tsunami waves. As people ...

During 2024, onlookers observed a startling sight on China's Qiantang River: waves forming a grid-like pattern. Dubbed the "matrix tide," this complex wave pattern was caused by the river's famed ...

Crowds gathered along the Qiantang river in Hangzhou, China, on 27 July to watch the “Silver Dragon” pass. This is no fire-breathing monster, though, but a tidal bore, a phenomenon where a tidal wave ...

Occurring on only a few dozen rivers around the world, tidal bores are as rare as they are intriguing. Michael Berry outlines the science behind this natural phenomenon and describes his sighting in ...