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A Rare Weather Phenomenon Known As Thundersleet Is Hitting Virginia
A major winter storm slamming much of the Northeast is creating something called "thundersleet."The unusual weather phenomenon has been reported in Virginia and is now heading to the Washington D.C....
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Before And After Pictures Show How Climate Change Is Destroying The Earth
Almost all scientists now agree that global climate change is caused by humans, while the White House pledged $1 billion on Friday to prepare for weather disasters and other events related to climate...
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Earthquake That Shook South Carolina Was A Once-Every-Two-Decade Event
The kind of 4.1 magnitude earthquake that rolled out from its epicenter near Aiken, S.C., Friday night was a once-every-two-decade event, and Southern quakes, it turns out, are far different in origin...
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Possible Radiation Leak At New Mexico Military Nuclear Waste Site After...
Unusually high levels of radioactive particles were found at an underground nuclear waste site in New Mexico on Saturday in what a spokesman said looked like the first real alarm since the plant opened...
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Here's The Basic Science Question That 1 In 4 Americans Got Wrong
The Earth circles the sun once every year, but a startling 26% of Americans get this simple fact backward. They think that the sun orbits around the Earth.This shocking finding comes from a survey of...
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Heartwarming Video Shows Lonely Elephant Finally Meeting Another Of Her Kind...
The San Diego Zoo posted this heartwarming video of its newest elephant, Mila, meeting another elephant, Mary. The moment is particularly special since prior to this encounter, Mila had spent more than...
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January World Temperatures Were The 4th-Warmest On Record
It was unusually cold in January in the eastern half of the U.S., but most other parts of the world experienced warmer-than-average temperatures. According to NOAA, last month was the fourth-warmest on...
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The Best People To Follow On Twitter For Weather
Weather!Suddenly everyone is excited about it, fueled in part by an uptick in wacky weather events, but also by a new gang of weather experts and climate reporters that are reaching people through the...
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Scientists Find Two New Species Of Butterfly In The US
The fluttering beauty of butterflies captures the imagination of poets and scientists alike, making them one of the most studied insects. Yet the recent discovery of two new species reminds us that...
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Stunning Satellite Image Shows Great Lakes Ice Cover That Hasn't Been Seen In...
NASA released a stunning image from space of the Great Lakes, which are 88 percent covered by ice. The Great Lakes have not had this much ice cover since 1994, according to statement from NASA's Earth...
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Pictures Of The Most Beautiful Places In The World
Lonely Planet has published a new book, "Beautiful World," an image collection of the most stunning places on Earth. The book showcases 200 photos taken by travelers everywhere from Bryce Canyon...
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Another Polar Vortex Is Coming To The East Coast
After a relatively mild weekend that had many in the Northeast thinking that winter was coming to an end, the dreaded polar vortex is expected to return this week, bringing colder than normal...
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Two Explorers Just Completed A Polar Expedition That Killed Everyone The Last...
Two British explorers, Ben Saunders and Tarka L’Herpiniere, recently broke the record for the longest polar journey on foot, having walked 1,795 miles to the South Pole and back in 105 days.The...
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The California Drought In One Photo
The terrible severity of California's drought is strikingly obvious these side-by-side images of Folsom Lake, a reservoir near Sacramento. On July 20, 2011, the lake was at 97% of its total capacity,...
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6 Crazy Photos That Show Why California Is Desperate For Rain
For many regions of California, 2013 ended as the driest year in recorded history. That trend has continued into 2014, prompting Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a drought state of emergency in January of...
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This Brilliant Water Filter Made From A Tree Branch Could Help Millions Of...
Researchers from MIT have created a water filter fashioned from a small piece of sapwood, an inexpensive and disposable technology that could help millions of people in the developing world who don't...
View ArticleHere's The Insanely Complex Method For Processing 1,000 Tons Of New York...
Please enable Javascript to watch this video Municipal recycling in New York City is more complicated than the process in any other city in the world.Tom Outerbridge, the General Manager of SIMS...
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This 500-Pound Metal Suit Can Take Humans To Incredible New Ocean Depths
Space exploration seems to get all the glory, but there's another virtually unexplored frontier right here on Earth: the deep sea.The Exosuit, a 530-pound metal suit, will for the first time allow a...
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The 32 Most Spectacular New Images Of Earth
NASA has selected 32 of the best Earth images from 2013 and is asking readers to help select one winner.Each week, through April 4, voters can choose their favorite image in a tournament that pit two...
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These Solar Panels Look Like Beautiful Stained Glass
Solar panels usually get placed somewhere in the sun, but out of sight. Rooftops, deserts, mausoleums. But what if they were so beautiful we wanted to put them everywhere?That could happen! Maybe....
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