Cold Snap Felt Across Western Half of Nation
Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2013 A tanker truck is tended to by firefighters after sliding off the snowy highway near mile marker 48 on Interstate 90 in Piedmont, S.D., Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 3, 2013. (AP...
View ArticleLate-Week Ice Storm to Threaten Texas to Pennsylvania
Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013 (AP Photo/Amber Hunt) A swath of ice and a wintry mix later this week threatens to slow travel and cut power from parts of Texas to Pennsylvania. As dangerous cold sweeps...
View ArticleArctic Blast Sends Temps Plunging Across Western Half of US
Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013 Andrew Wooster clears off his driveway in Virginia, Minn., Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, during the area's first major winter storm of the season. (AP Photo/Mesabi Daily News, Mark...
View ArticleUS Study Warns of Sudden Climate Change Woes
Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013 In this July 19, 2007, file photo an iceberg is seen off Ammassalik Island in Eastern Greenland. (AP Photo/John McConnico, File) WASHINGTON (AP) - Hard-to-predict sudden changes...
View ArticleSeattle Football Fans Rock the House - and the Earth
Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013 Seattle Seahawks fans cheer in the second half of an NFL football game against the New Orleans Saints, Monday, Dec. 2, 2013, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) Rowdy fans...
View ArticleLook: SpaceX Launches First Commercial Satellite
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A new communications satellite that has both public and government applications has been launched into space aboard a private rocket. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off...
View ArticleMan Survives 3 Days at Bottom of Atlantic
Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013 LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Entombed at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in an upended tugboat for three days, Harrison Odjegba Okene begged God for a miracle. The Nigerian cook...
View ArticleSnow, Wintry Mix to Take Aim From Missouri to New York
Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 (AP Photo/Bob Child) As colder air seeps in from the north and west, a swath of snow and wintry mix causing slippery travel will develop from central Missouri to upstate New York...
View ArticleWinterlike Cold to Make Comeback in East
Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds) As cold air continues to flow down out of Canada and across the Plains and Rockies, the Northeast is next in line for the blast, despite a seasonable start...
View ArticleDangerously Low Temperatures Continue to Threaten West
Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 A woman braces against the cold and blowing snow on Denver's 16th Street Mall on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski) DENVER (AP) - The jet stream hunkered to the...
View ArticleRescuers Try to Save 41 Whales Beached Off Fla. Coast
Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 Officials in boats monitor the scene where dozens of pilot whales are stranded in shallow water in a remote area of Florida's Everglades National Park, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013....
View ArticleSunken Japanese WWII Submarine Discovered Off Hawaiian Coast
Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 The Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory's Pisces V submersible at the deck of the I-400 submarine. (Credit: Courtesy of NOAA HURL archives) A World War II-era Japanese submarine...
View ArticlePhoto: It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
NEW YORK (AP) - With a flick of the switch, a 76-foot Norway Spruce officially became the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree Wednesday night after it was illuminated for the first time this holiday...
View ArticleExtreme Weather Pummels Europe; 1 Person Killed
Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 Waves hit the coast in Dagebuell, on December 5, 2013, as storm front Xaver has reached the North Sea in Germany. (CARSTEN REHDER/AFP/Getty Images) LONDON (AP) - Hurricane-force...
View ArticlePhotos: Extreme Weather Pummels Europe
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View ArticleWatch: Bizarre Saturn Vortex Swirls in New NASA Video
Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 This colorful view from NASA's Cassini mission is the highest-resolution view of the unique six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole known as "the hexagon."...
View ArticleIcy Storm Slams Southwest, Shuts Down North Texas
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View ArticleThousands in UK Face Another Day of Flooding
Friday, Dec. 6, 2013 Two men walk down a flooded street, in Helsingborg, Sweden, Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Johan Nilsson) LONDON (AP) - Thousands of people in Britain face a second day of...
View ArticleSmog Reaches Extremely Hazardous Levels in Shanghai
Friday, Dec. 6, 2013 Workers wear the masks to protect them from air pollution in Shanghai, China, Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) SHANGHAI (AP) - Shanghai authorities ordered...
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