Glacier meltwater threatens villages

A glacier in Nepal is melting fast and creating a huge lake. The lake has the potential to be 6km long, 1 km wide and 100m deep and is sitting behind a mound of terminal moraine. The worry is that if the water breaks through the moraine the flood would sweep down the vally and destroy Villages and the people who live there.

Read the full story here.

Earthquake survival

How do people design buildings to survive earthquakes? Watch these videos to find out

The next big Californian earthquake

Its been a long time since California was hit by a big earthquake. What's gonna happen when it happens???

Rare clouds spotted in Yorkshire!

Big news cloud spotters! Some rare lenticular clouds have been spotted in Yorkshire this week.

These clouds are generally thought to be responsible for many UFO sightings. See the slide show here.

New earthquakes in New Zealand

Christchurch has been hit by new earthquakes almost a year since major quake destroyed large parts of the city. You can see that there are fault lines running right through New Zealand so they get plenty of earthquakes.

Read the full story here

Could you use Olympic gold medals as a measure of development?

We use all kinds of data to measure how developed a country is so why not Olympic gold medals? China's definitely on the up...

The best use of statistics ever

This guy takes statistics about countries level of development and visualises them so it makes sense. I know it sounds rubbish, but watch it, you'll be impressed.

Canary Island volcano: A new island in the making?

An undersea volcano is erupting just south of Spain's Canary Islands! I told you this was real stuff!

To read about it click here.

Octonauts - Peso gets stuck in an ocean trench

An amazing episode of cbeebies Octonauts where Peso gets stuck down a deep sea ocean trench. Luckily Captain Barnacles rescues him. It's also full of accurate ocean trench knowledge.

The world's deepest ocean trench!

US scientists have mapped the deepest part of the world's oceans in greater detail than ever before.

The Mariana Trench in the western Pacific runs for about 2,500km and extends down to 10,994m.

For the full article click here.

Google street view of tsunami hit Japan

Google have returned to Japan to update their maps since the devestating tsunami.

Click here to view the pictures.