For thousands of years, volcanic eruptions have shaken human civilizations. They explode every 17,000 years and are 1,000 times more powerful than the 1980 Mount St Helens explosion, the worst in US history.
Sea levels are rising even faster on the East Coast and Gulf Coast. And advances in climate science mean we can see the future clearly for the first time.
Early on Jan. 22, a powerful offshore earthquake shook Oita and Miyazaki prefectures in southern Japan, inflicting minor injuries among startled people but no substantial damage aside from ruptured water mains.
Discussions about exploration of the cosmos by direct contact had already been on the table when University of California. For them, the idea of interstellar travel is not barely in the "realm of science fiction", but a possibility, not just in mere lunar and interplanetary missions, but through sending life outside of solar system.