Top Storywww.flickr.com The hunt for big hail Hailstones of record size are falling left and right, and hailstorm damage is growing. But there is surprisingly little research to explain why.
Impactscommons.wikimedia.org The people who draw rocks The Alps’ glaciers are melting, and these Swiss cartographers have work to do.
Newsletter www.nytimes.com How Oman’s rocks could help save the planet The rocks in this part of the world have a special ability: They can turn carbon dioxide into stone.
Impacts www.nytimes.com Storm waves with the power to heave massive boulders over cliffs Instead of tsunamis, scientists think that massive stones sitting on cliffs above the western Irish coast were probably moved there by storm surges.