Watch: NASA's Beautiful New Arctic Video
August 17, 2013 On August, 16, 2013, NASA released this new video of footage taken by one of its research planes. NASA's Operation IceBridge, which collects data from the Arctic and Antarctic, just...
View ArticleWildfires in West Are Far From Being Contained
August 17, 2013 A fire burns on the shoulder of U.S. Highway 20 north of Mountain Home, Idaho on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013. The blaze was among several touched off in recent days by a lightning storm that...
View ArticleGulf of Mexico Storm Possible; Southeast Flood Threat Persists
August 18, 2013 A low-pressure system is moving northwestward across the Gulf of Mexco. (NOAA) AccuWeather.com Meteorologists continue to monitor low pressure in the Gulf of Mexico as it slowly tracks...
View ArticleMore Crews Arrive to Help Battle Idaho Wildfire
August 18, 2013 Members of the Prescott Hotshots work to put out part of the Beaver Creek Fire on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013, west of Hailey, Idaho. (AP Photo/Times-News, Ashley Smith) HAILEY, Idaho (AP)...
View Article39 Confirmed Dead in Philippines Ferry Crash
August 18, 2013 A cluster of life rafts floats near the cargo ship Sulpicio Express Siete Saturday Aug. 17, 2013, a day after it collided with a passenger ferry off the waters of Talisay city, Cebu...
View ArticleSecond Brain-Eating Amoeba Case Confirmed
August 18, 2013 The above graph from the CDC shows the number of cases of primary amebic meningoencephalitis -- PAM -- by state of exposure in the U.S. from 1962 to 2012. PORT LABELLE, Florida -- A...
View ArticleJapanese Volcano Sakurajima Erupts on Sunday
August 18, 2013 @KetyDC posted this image on Twitter, saying "Sakurajima volcano erupted on Sunday in Japan. Photo: Kagoshima Local Meteorological Observatory/AP pic." KYUSHU, Japan -- One of Japan's...
View ArticleNorway's Weird Waves Traced to Earthquake in Japan
August 18, 2013 The Aurland-Flåm fjord in Norway, where the 2011 Japan earthquake triggered seiche waves. (Leif Haug) On a calm winter's day in Norway two years ago, the sea suddenly started to boil...
View ArticleSoutheast Flood Threat Continues This Week
(AP Photo/Phil Coale) The trend of wet weather will persist across the Southeast this week, continuing the flooding threat from Mississippi through the Carolinas. Over the weekend, tropical moisture...
View ArticleTask Force: Coasts Should Prepare for Rising Seas
In this Oct. 31, 2012, file photo, a view from the air shows the destroyed homes left in the wake of Superstorm Sandy in Seaside Heights, N.J. New Jersey got the brunt of Sandy. (AP Photo/Mike Groll,...
View ArticleLandslides Kill at Least 15 in Southern China
Updated Monday, Aug. 19, 11:00 a.m. ET In this photo taken Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013, residents paddle a boat in flood waters triggered torrential rains from typhoon Utor on a street in Fengkai in south...
View ArticleTorrential Rains Shut Down Philippine Capital
Updated Monday, Aug. 19, 11:00 a.m. ET A truckload of stranded commuters cross a flooded street in Manila, Philippines, on Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) MANILA, Philippines (AP) -...
View ArticleFlooding Forces 20,000 Russians From Their Homes
Updated Monday Aug. 19, 11:00 a.m. ET This Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013, photo provided by the Russian Emergency Ministry, Khabarovsk region branch, shows the aerial view of a flooded Amur River in the...
View ArticleVolcanic Eruption Coats Japanese City With Ash
In this photo released by Kagoshima Local Meteorological Observatory, volcanic smoke billows from Mount Sakurajima in Kagoshima, on the southern Japanese main island of Kyushu Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013....
View ArticleAdditional Crews Arrive to Help Fight Idaho Fire
Firefighters continue to battle the Beaver Creek Fire in the Wood River Valley where it creeps down the western canyon near Hailey, Idaho, on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Idaho Statesman, Darin...
View ArticlePhotos: Torrential Rains Shut Down Philippine Capital
Bullit Marquez/AP Photo 1 of 13 Torrential rains brought the Philippine capital of Manila to a standstill Monday, submerging some areas in waist-deep floodwaters and making streets impassable to...
View ArticleCloudspotting: Spirals Over the Pacific
Monday, Aug. 19, 2013 (Photo: NASA Earth Observatory) At first glance, you might think this is a photo of a frosted window pane after someone traced curlicues across it. It's actually a satellite image...
View ArticleWatch: 10 Years of Weather in 3 Minutes
What does 10 years of weather look like in three minutes? This animation includes one image from each day of the decade-long life of NASA's Earth-observing GOES-12 satellite. That's 3,641 individual...
View ArticleFloods Recede in Manila as Thousands Evacuated
Filipinos wade through a flooded street at the financial district of Makati, south of Manila, Philippines, on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Flooding caused...
View ArticleStrong Winds Fan Fire Along Columbia River
A helicopter makes a drop on a lightning-caused wildfire near the communities of Slick Rock and Alta Sierra, Calif., on Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/The Bakersfield Californian, Henry A. Barrios)...
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