Global Warming Means More Antarctic Ice
Antarctic sunlight illuminating the surface of the sea ice. (AP Photo/NSIDC, University of Colorado) By Seth Borenstein The ice goes on seemingly forever in a white pancake-flat landscape, stretching...
View ArticleWatch: Martyn Ashton Does Backflips on Road Bike
UK mountain bike trials rider Martyn Ashton recently took a $16,000 Pinarello Dogma 2 out for a spin with a British filmmaker. They visited a skate park, cruised a golf course and even found their way...
View ArticleSkydiver Aims to Make Supersonic Jump on Sunday
This photo provided by Red Bull Stratos shows pilot Felix Baumgartner reacting after his mission was aborted in Roswell, N.M., Tuesday, Oct. 9. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Extreme athlete Felix...
View ArticleNortheast, Midwest Brace for Chilly Fall Temps
Active weather persists across the Great Lakes, as well as the Southwest on Thursday. A low pressure system spinning in eastern Canada advances northward and further away from the Northeastern U.S....
View ArticleHeating Costs to Rise This Winter as Cold Returns
(Credit: AP) NEW YORK (AP) - Americans will pay more to heat their homes this winter as they feel something they didn't feel much of last year: cold. Prices for natural gas, heating oil and other...
View ArticleBright Venus and Moon to Shine Friday Morning
Astrophotographer Brett Schaerer took this photo of the moon and Venus from Portland, OR, on September 12. (Credit: Brett Schaerer) With daylight saving time still in effect across most of the United...
View ArticleWatch: Huge Dust Devil Spins Through Construction Site
A group of coal miners were building a sedimentation damn in central Queensland, Australia, when a giant tornado of dust came barreling through their construction site. Watch as the dust devil nearly...
View ArticleWatch: Surfer Shane Dorian Gets Barreled at Jaws
'Tis the start of big wave season in Hawaii. A massive swell hit this week, and a slew of surfers and photographers descended on Maui's famed big-wave break, Jaws, to get a piece of the action. In...
View ArticleSpace Tourism: British Singer to Be First Recording Artist in Space
Sarah Brightman listens journalists during news conference in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday to announce that she will become the first-ever global recording artist to take a spaceflight, teaming up with...
View ArticleSoftball-Sized Eyeball Washes up on Florida Beach
This Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 photo made available by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shows a giant eyeball from a mysterious sea creature that washed ashore and was found...
View ArticleTropical Storm Patty Swirls Across Atlantic
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Patty is weakening as it drifts in the Atlantic. The storm's maximum sustained winds decreased early Friday to near 40 mph. Additional weakening is forecast and the U.S....
View ArticleSevere Storms, Possible Tornadoes in Southwest and Central US
In the Southwest, a low pressure system moves eastward into the Southern Plains from the Desert Southwest on Friday. This system will continue pulling Pacific moisture eastward with it, producing...
View ArticleSpace Shuttle Embarks on 12-mile Road Trip
LOS ANGELES (AP) - At its prime, the space shuttle Endeavour cruised around the Earth at 17,500 mph, faster than a speeding bullet. In retirement, it's crawling along at a sluggish 2 mph, a pace that...
View ArticleDoes Foul Weather Strengthen Human Bonds?
(Credit: sxc.hu | apatterson) When the weather outside is frightful, we spend more time shooting the breeze with people close to us, a new study finds. The study, published Wednesday (Oct. 10) in the...
View ArticleDozens of Fishermen Missing After Bangladesh Storms
Bangladeshi fishermen prepare to go on a fishing trip earlier this year. (AP) DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Dozens of fishermen were missing Friday after rainstorms lashed coastal Bangladesh and the Bay of...
View ArticleAmerica's Most Haunted Places
AnneNY via Flickr 1 of 11 Tales of spooks and specters, rattling chains and mysterious moans lurk in most cities across the U.S. But some places are spookier than others. Whether they're haunted by...
View ArticleWatch: Hawaii's Big-Wave Surf Season Kicks off at Jaws
It wasn't too many years ago that word of a big swell hitting Hawaii would spread to the mainland by word-of-mouth -- the so-called "coconut telegraph" -- or maybe the rare newspaper article. How...
View ArticleWatch: Snow in Usually Sunny Southern California?
Wild weather pounded some areas of Southern California on Thursday, thanks to a cold upper-level low-pressure system. A hail storm hit the hills above the 210 freeway, blanketing the La Canada...
View ArticleEpic Storm Photos from the Twittersphere
DhaniJones/twitter 1 of 12 Dhani Jones was in an airplane flying over New York City when he took this photo and tweeted, "#stormcoming #nyc #isolated I've never seen a storm so concentrated. The power...
View ArticleWavy Clouds Photographed Over Atlanta
@sccraig/Twitter 1 of 7 Residents of Atlanta, Ga., awoke to a blanket of picturesque, wavy clouds -- called stratus undulatus -- Friday morning. Viewers took to Twitter to share their photos. Click...
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