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You've Seen The Floods Caused By Sandy, But Have You Seen The Snow?
While New Jersey, New York and Connecticut have been dealing with unprecedented flooding created by Superstorm Sandy, at least four states were hit with a different type of weather disaster:...
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The Day Climate Change Became A Second-Tier Concern Under Obama
The invitation to the White House in the spring of 2009 struck Barack Obama's allies in the environmental movement as a big moment: a clear sign that climate change was on his radar and that the...
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A Significant Coastal Storm Is Headed Straight For Sandy-Wrecked Regions
Just a week after Superstorm Sandy nailed the U.S. East Coast, a new storm is cooking up off the Southeast coast. It's expected to smack the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast by Wednesday night. The National...
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The West Coast Is Also Worried About Extreme Storms
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, researchers in California are grappling with their own questions about increasingly extreme weather.The Pacific Ocean isn't warm enough to produce a superstorm like...
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Laos' Multi-Billion Dollar Dam Could Be Disastrous For 60 Million People
Laos on Monday said it would start construction of a controversial multi-billion dollar dam this week, after adapting the design to calm environmental concerns from neighbouring nations."After two...
View ArticleHere's What Made Sandy A Superstorm
This video from Science Friday covers the essentials of Superstorm Sandy, and what led to its intense destructive abilities:Please follow Science on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about...
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The World's Rarest Whale Is Seen For The First Time Ever
The spade-toothed beaked whale has not been seen in 150 years. Now two of the rare animals — a mother and her calf — have been identified. The whales washed up on an New Zealand beach in 2010....
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This Supercomputer Is The World's Most Powerful Hurricane Prediction Machine
There's no way to eliminate weather threats. But it is possible to get better at predicting them.For the last four decades, scientists have depended on the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or...
View ArticleA New Bigfoot Video Is Racking Up Millions Of Views
A new video that seems to show a Bigfoot-like beast rearing up in a Utah brush patch is racking up millions of views on the web, but are there any compelling facts in the compelling footage?Beard Card,...
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BEFORE AND AFTER: Aerial Pictures Show Sandy's Catastrophic Damage
Superstorm Sandy brought catastrophic damage to the Northeast last week. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has compiled "before and after" shots of Sandy's destruction along the...
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Nor'easter Soaking NYC With 6 Inches Of Slushy, Melty Snow
After the destruction caused by Sandy last week, the last thing the East Coast needs is another storm. But that's what parts of the mid-Atlantic and New England coast are going to get, including some...
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The National Weather Service Rips The Weather Channel For Naming The Nor'easter
The National Weather Service has a message for The Weather Channel: Don't mess with its storm-naming system. The Washington Post's Jason Samenow reports that The Weather Channel named the nor'easter...
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Almost Complete Woolly Mammoth Skeleton Found Near Paris [PHOTOS]
An almost complete skeleton of a pre-historic Woolly Mammoth was discovered near Paris, archaeologists from the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research announced Tuesday. The...
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Yesterday's Snowstorm Smashed Tons Of Records
Just days after a tropical storm destroyed much of the East coast, a huge snowstorm dumped inches of clumpy, wet snow — up to 13.5 inches in Upton, NY — across the Northeast, setting a ton of snowfall...
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Some Trees Are More Likely To Be Uprooted By Strong Winds
For some, an unwanted reminder of Hurricane Sandy that crashed into the East Coast as megastorm of the century is a big tree uprooted, lying across the yard — If lucky, missing the house.From North...
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Elephant-Human Clashes Are Sometimes Caused By Pachyderm Drunkenness
"Marauding pack of booze-addled elephants wreak havoc on Indian village." It's a story, or at least a headline, that's surprisingly common.A few representative samples from the news reports on the...
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Mysterious Explosion In Indianapolis Drives 200 People Out Of Their Homes
Two houses inexplicably exploded in Indianapolis yesterday killing two people. While the massive explosion has baffled police and fire crews in the Midwestern town, the ex-husband of one of the...
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You Might Think These People Are Crazy For Swimming In Venice's Flooded...
Torrential rains and unusually high tide has caused widespread flooding in Venice, Italy, leaving 75 percent of the city under water this week. Although high tide, known as Acqua Alta, is common during...
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We Can't Keep Ignoring The Reality That Is Climate Change
Last week, Hurricane Sandy put climate change back in the political discussion. Sandy gave the American people a painful taste of what is likely to be in store for us as the planet’s weather continues...
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Alaskan Ice Could Hold Our Newest Energy Source
A half mile below the ground at Prudhoe Bay, above the vast oil field that helped trigger construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline, a drill rig has tapped what researchers think could be the next big...
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