Two-mile-wide tornado kills at least 24 — including 7 elementary school students
Moore, Oklahoma (CNN) — Rescue workers raced against time and the oncoming night Monday looking for survivors after a powerful tornado blasted an area outside of Oklahoma City, leveling homes…
Innovation success: Switzerland tops European innovation list
Mar 30, 2013 – 10:44 Switzerland is the most innovative country in Europe, comfortably ahead of second-placed Sweden, according to an annual study by the European Union. The Innovation Union…
Switzerland seeks to confirm top research spot
by Andreas Keiser, swissinfo.ch Switzerland tops all major research and innovation rankings worldwide, largely thanks to generous funding and a clear separation between public and private research, as well as…
Prime Minister of Bangladesh: Climate Change ‘Disastrous’ for Developing Countries
Source: Asia Society By Liz Flora Leaders from the countries on the front lines of climate change assailed the “inertia” of the world’s richer nations, and warned of grave consequences…
Earthquakes: The map
Source: USGS.GOV Seems like everyday, there is another earthquake. Here is a map of all tracked events. Earthquakes – 7732 in last 30 days M Location Click event below for…
Eerie similarites: Isaac follows track of Katrina, evacuations ordered for coast
Tampa, Florida (CNN) — Thousands in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were being told early Monday to leave their Gulf Coast homes ahead of the arrival of Tropical Storm Isaac as…
Satellites reveal sudden Greenland ice melt
Source BBC The surface of Greenland’s massive ice sheet has melted this month over an unusually large area, Nasa has said. Scientists said the “unprecedented” melting took place over a…
Global Warming Makes Heat Waves More Likely, Study Finds
Source : NY Times. Some of the weather extremes bedeviling people around the world have become far more likely because of human-induced global warming, researchers reported on Tuesday. Yet they…
Excuse me: Gassy dinosaurs helped warm Earth
Source: The Herald Potty humor just got prehistoric. A new study suggests that dinosaurs may have helped keep an already overheated world warmer with their flatulence and burps 200 million…
Wind farms can cause climate change, finds new study
Source: The Telegraph Usually at night the air closer to the ground becomes colder when the sun goes down and the earth cools. But on huge wind farms the motion…
Tsunami Warning for Sumatra Indonesia After Magnitude 8.5 Earthquake
The Jakarta Globe: Indonesia issued a tsunami warning Wednesday after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.5 hit waters off westernmost Aceh province. Said, an official at Indonesia’s Meteorology…
Picture of the Day: Tornado in Texas
Note the fury of nature with a trailer up in the air! Watch a video: Truck Trailers Tossed like Toys in Texas…
Biggest Solar Storm in Five Years to Hit Earth
Source: Wall Street Journal The largest solar storm in five years is racing toward Earth, threatening to unleash a torrent of charged particles that could disrupt power grids, GPS…
Initiative advocates use of unconventional water resources to address shortage
by Hana Namrouqa | Mar 06,2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Grey water from schools and mosques will be harvested and two ancient reservoirs will be rehabilitated this year under…
Ancient Arabic Writings Help Scientists Piece Together Past Climate
ScienceDaily (Feb. 26, 2012) — Ancient manuscripts written by Arabic scholars can provide valuable meteorological information to help modern scientists reconstruct the climate of the past, a new study has revealed.…
Mega volcanoes may be predicted
Source: BBC The eruption of some of the largest volcanoes on the planet could be predicted several decades before the event, according to researchers. Analysis of rock crystals from the…
Astronauts safe from Solar Storm Radiation
Source: Space.com. This SDO image (AIA 193) shows an M9-class solar flare erupting on the Sun’s northeastern hemisphere at 03:49 UT on Jan. 23, 2012… just 4 days after a…
Floods in Visayas, Mindanao affect over 50,000—NDRRMC
MANILA, Philippines – More than 50,000 people throughout 12 provinces in Visayas and Mindanao were affected by rains and flooding coming from a low pressure area (LPA), the National Disaster…
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