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A drought in Mexico has revealed the ruins of a 16th-century church
Beautiful photos of the Mexican Temple of Santiago have been circulating online, showing the church reappear from the water like a lost ruin of Atlantis.The Grijalva river in Chiapas, Mexico has been...
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A novel way to clean-up oil spills could come from a very unlikely source
“One of the many focuses in the John’s Lab at the City College of New York is to clean up oil spills using chemicals made from renewable resources like fruits and oil.First we do a bit of good old...
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Here are the animals that are winning and losing to climate change
Along with a changing environment inevitably comes a changing set of animals.For some, climate change is forcing them to adapt and find new habitats to live in. But for others, their changing...
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Scientists say there's a 99.9% chance of a destructive earthquake slamming a...
Trouble is brewing underneath the greater Los Angeles area.Within the next 2.5 years, an earthquake of at least magnitude 5.0 could hit the city. A magnitude 5.0 earthquake is a moderate earthquake,...
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Sunscreen may be killing coral reefs
For most beachgoers, sunscreen is a necessity, but a common ingredient found in many sunscreens can prove toxic to coral, a study released on Tuesday found.The ingredient, oxybenzone, has a...
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A bunch of students designed this beautiful hurricane-resistant house
Three years after Hurricane Sandy destroyed much of the Jersey Shore, some areas are still rebuilding.Stevens Institute of Technology, from Hoboken, New Jersey, has a plan to make future storms far...
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A major scientific organization just refuted NASA's 99.9% prediction that an...
On Oct. 7 a NASA-led team of scientists published a report in the prestigious, peer-reviewed journal Earth and Space Science stating that the greater Los Angeles area — particularly near its subarb of...
View ArticleThis one photo reveals how insanely big Burning Man is — and how completely...
The yearly Nevada festival of Burning Man is many things. It is a place where 65,000 people descend on a 7-square-mile patch of the Black Rock Desert, getting whipped by sandstorms, and, of course,...
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The biggest threat to Silicon Valley isn't what you think it is
Though many who live around the San Francisco Bay don’t yet know it, Silicon Valley and Bay Area businesses face a new threat to their well-being and continued growth.Ironically for drought-stricken...
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Hurricane Patricia is coming for Mexico as the strongest hurricane in history
A category 5 hurricane is about to slam into Mexico, NOAA reported on Friday.With 200-mph winds, Hurricane Patricia is considered the strongest Eastern North Pacific hurricane on record.Here's what the...
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We tried beer brewed from sewage — here’s what it tasted like
Mmm, nothing like sitting back and cracking open a cold can of crisp amber ale...that was once sewage.A municipal water utility in Portland, Oregon, recently held a contest to see who could brew the...
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7 global warming 'skeptics' who are massively missing the point
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are on the rise. That's one thing even the climate change skeptics can't challenge.And most climate experts agree that CO2 emissions from humans is increasing...
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Gorgeous photos of a rapidly vanishing natural wonder that could be gone...
The Great Aletsch Glacier is one of Europe's largest glaciers, winding over 14 miles through the Swiss Alps.And it's vanishing rapidly.Andreas Vieli, a professor heading a team of glaciology experts at...
View ArticleScientists figured out how to make water droplets levitate and change shape...
Scientists at Clemson University have figured out an incredible way to make drops of water hover in mid-air. And the result is mesmerizing.Produced By Matt JohnstonFollow TI: On FacebookJoin the...
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I saw how airplane food gets made from start to finish — and I learned a...
Besides likening themselves to cattle shoved into an airborne metal tube, there's nothing airline passengers like to complain about more than how terrible airplane food is. But how and where those...
View ArticleElephants are helping to battle Indonesia's devastating forest fires
Parts of Indonesia have been smothered in haze due to the widespread agricultural practice of "slash-and-burn" farming and a prolonged dry season. In some places, the fires are burning out of control,...
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The one thing that could make 'intolerable' Persian heat bearable will make...
Climate change could make the hottest summer days in the Persian Gulf today the norm by 2100. The new extreme could exceed the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth, according to a study published...
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Parts of the Persian Gulf could experience deadly heat waves by the end of...
A number of cities in the Persian Gulf region may be unlivable by the end of the century due to global warming if humans do not curb greenhouse gas emissions, according to new research.The study,...
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We may be recycling too much of our trash
Although recycling has been understood for decades to provide economic and environmental benefits to society, new research shows that it may be best to recycle in moderation. "It makes sense to recycle...
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Here's where the 'intolerable' heat will hit hardest in the Persian Gulf
By 2100, the most extreme summer days seen today could become the new norm in the Persian Gulf.Today, "wet-bulb temperatures" in the summer typically reach 88 degrees Fahrenheit every 20 days, but...
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