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Stunning Images From The Best Wildlife Photo Competition Of The Year
The winners of the Veolia Environment Photographer of the Year Competition, owned by the Natural History Museum in London and BBC Worldwide, were announced this week. The competition, now in its 48th...
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The World's Biggest Sinkholes
A sinkhole occurs when an area of ground collapses, creating holes that can swallow up swimming pools, roads, buildings and people. The United States Geological Survey describes three different...
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Cat Discovers 2,000-Year-Old Tomb
It was 10 p.m. on Tuesday night when Mirko Curti spotted a cat outside his apartment in Rome. For some reason, Curti and a friend decided to follow the cat. It's a good thing they did. The cat led...
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Italian Earthquake Researchers Sentenced To Six Years In Prison
The Italian Seismologists on trial for manslaughter have been sentenced to six years in prison, multiple news agencies are reporting. The scientists were put on trial after 309 people died in an April...
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Results From Antarctica's Buried Lake Vostok Are A Major Disappointment So Far
In February, a team of Russian scientists made headlines when they reached the surface of a lake buried two miles beneath the Antarctic Ice sheet. The icy body of water, which had not been exposed to...
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'Blood Rain' May Cover The UK In Red This Weekend
Something spooky is in store for this Halloween weekend in the United Kingdom. Weather forecasters are predicting something called "blood rain," BBC News reports. "Blood rain" does not actually...
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Global Warming Is Shrinking The Ozone Hole
The ozone hole above the Antarctic has hit its maximum extent for the year. Due to warm temperatures, the opening in the protective atmospheric layer was the second smallest it has been for 20 years,...
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Mayor Bloomberg Tells NYC Residents: 'Be Prepared To Evacuate'
Hurricane Sandy is currently pounding the Caribbean as a category 2 storm. The 105-mph storm is expected to move up the East Coast bringing heavy rainfall, high winds and coastal flooding late this...
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Weather Channel Meteorologist: THIS LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER PERFECT STORM
Weather experts say the East Coast has a good chance of getting slammed by Hurricane Sandy early next week. The storm, currently pounding the Caribbean, is a mix of a winter storm and a hurricane,...
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Sandy Could Be The Next Nightmare Hurricane We've Been Expecting
The National Weather Service is calling it a "Frankenstorm" and multiple meteorologists are getting worried as Hurricane Sandy heads straight for the East Coast of the US. The hurricane, if it follows...
View ArticleWatch Hurricane Sandy LIVE From Space Right Now
Hurricane Sandy is threatening to strike the eastern U.S. early next week. The Category 1 hurricane ransacked the Bahamas early Friday morning. It's currently located about 460 miles south of...
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Damage From The Frankenstorm Could Be As Bad As The Super Outbreak Of 1974
In a tweet yesterday, meteorologist Jim Cantore mentioned a "super outbreak of 1974" when talking about Hurricane Sandy's potential to be a disastrous Hurricane. That got us wondering: What the heck...
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These Wild Animals Are Taking Over New York City
Walking down New York City's urban streets, the only animals we notice are the people. Sometimes we'll get a glimpse of a rat, mouse or pigeon. But the urban world around you is also teeming with...
View ArticleSee If You Live In A New York City Hurricane Evacuation Zone
Mayor Bloomberg held a press conference updating New Yorkers on preparations for Hurricane Sandy Friday afternoon. It's too soon to tell where Sandy is going, but "common sense says you should start...
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Horrifying Pictures Show The Huge Damage Hurricane Sandy Has Already Created
Hurricane Sandy is causing quite a stir in the Northeast, with reports that the "snowicane" could turn into a "Frankenstorm" and savage major metropolitan areas. The storm has already caused havoc in...
View ArticleIt Took MTV's Sway Asking About Climate Change To Break Obama's Silence On...
Where has the US's worries about climate change talk gone? For the first time since 1988, it wasn't brought up in at least one presidential debate of this year's election cycle. Now, when it comes to...
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Here's The Mountain Of Evidence Linking Climate Change To Bigger Storms
The huge superstorm Sandy has left a path of destruction across the Eastern seaboard and everyone's wondering — was this insanely intense storm that some are calling a once a century event related to...
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You Simply Can't Ignore The Evidence Connecting Hurricane Sandy To Global...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer stood along the Hudson River and watched his research come to life as Hurricane Sandy blew through New York. Just eight months earlier, the...
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Ten Ways We Can Help Keep NYC From Drowning Under Water
The best scientific evidence shows that global climate change is caused by burning fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas), which emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere....
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Meteorologist Predicts Sandy Could Cost More Than Katrina
It's a comparison that had to be made: Superstorm Sandy versus Hurricane Katrina. There are many differences between the two storms. Katrina hit the Gulf coast, while Sandy made her way up the East...
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