Antarctic Ice Rift Growing, Satellite Images Show
A massive crack in Pine Island Glacier as seen in a Sept. 14, 2012 satellite image. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory The giant fissure that was discovered last year in Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier...
View ArticleShark Falls from Sky onto Golf Course?
A leopard shark like the one seen here is thought to have fallen from the sky in California. Credit: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic | Upsilon Andromedae At the San Juan Hills Golf Club in...
View ArticleEastern Utilities Brace for Expected Super Storm
New York City (Thinkstock) HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Utilities and governments along the East Coast are working to head off long-term power failures as forecasters predict a major storm to hit a region...
View ArticleWhy Aren't the Presidential Candidates Discussing Climate Change?
As the clock ticks down on the 2012 presidential campaign, neither President Obama nor challenger Mitt Romney is hitting the stump to discuss climate change. What's more, the issue wasn't raised by...
View ArticleHistoric 'Frankenstorm' Threatens East Coast
Updated Oct. 26, 2012, 5:37 p.m. EDT Early in the morning on Oct. 25, the Suomi NPP satellite caught this image of Hurricane Sandy after it made landfall in Cuba. (NOAA/NASA) WASHINGTON (AP) - When...
View ArticleSandy Leaves Caribbean After Killing at Least 43 People
Updated Saturday, Oct. 27, 10:05 a.m. ET Locals walk across the flooded streets of La Plaine, Haiti, Thursday after Hurricane Sandy caused flooding and claimed at least 26 lives. (AP Photo/The Miami...
View ArticleSoggy Jamaica Cleaning Up After Sandy
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - Work crews in soaked Jamaica cleared debris and downed power lines left in Hurricane Sandy's wake while trying to restore electricity to more than half of the Caribbean...
View ArticleWhy So Many Hurricanes This Year? Blame El NiƱo
Credit: NOAA Before the beginning of this hurricane season, back in May, forecasters thought this year would be an average one. Come August, when the season typically peaks, forecasters notched up...
View ArticleFunny Tweets About Not-So-Funny Frankenstorm
Comedy Central via Twitter 1 of 21 @ComedyCentral "Tumblr is down. Frankenstorm Coming. Mayans were right!" share Share on Tumblr Pin It Email to a friend Old Hoss Radbourn via Twitter 2 of 21...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy Could Outdo 'Perfect Storm'
The Suomi NPP satellite caught this image of Hurricane Sandy Thursday morning, just as the cyclone passed over Cuba. (NOAA/NASA/GSFC/SuomiNPP) By Douglas Main A frightening collision of weather...
View ArticleAirlines Ask Fliers to Reschedule Due to Super Storm
(Thinkstock) NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. airlines are giving travelers a way out if they want to scrap their plans due to Hurricane Sandy. All the major airlines are offering waivers to customers who wish to...
View ArticleHow to Prepare for the East Coast Super Storm
NOAA 1 of 6 By Andrea Thompson The latest forecasts have Hurricane Sandy moving up along the East Coast and potentially making landfall somewhere between North Carolina and Maine early next week,...
View ArticleEast Coast Residents Prepare for Megastorm
Updated Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 Andy Lugo stocks up on supplies for branches of First Republic Bank in New York City on Oct. 26 in anticipation of the coming superstorm. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty...
View ArticlePhotos: East Coast Prepares for Megastorm
AP 1 of 9 East Coast residents are preparing for a historic storm that's expected to strike the region early next week. Click through for photos. A worker boards up the windows of the store as...
View ArticleHistoric Megastorm Churns Toward U.S. East Coast
Updated Saturday, Oct. 27 12:05 p.m. ET NOAA WASHINGTON (AP) - Hurricane Sandy - upgraded again Saturday just hours after forecasters said it had weakened to a tropical storm - headed north from the...
View Article5 Reasons Why Sandy is Expected to be a Superstorm
1. A NORTHBOUND HURRICANE Hurricane Sandy is moving very slowly toward the north-northeast and is expected to continue its current path parallel to the Carolinas over the weekend, forecasters say. At...
View Article'Frankenstorm': Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
A satellite image of Sandy is shown at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Saturday, Oct. 27. WASHINGTON (AP) - The storm that is threatening 60 million Americans in the eastern third of the...
View ArticleMapping the Megastorm: Track it Live
Track the movement of Hurricane Sandy on this Google Crisis Response map, which features the storm's current location, its projected path, cloud imagery and public alerts. PHOTOS ON SKYE: Epic Storm...
View ArticleSuperstorm Threat Launches Mass Evacuations
Updated Saturday, Oct. 27, 11:40 p.m. ET Large waves generated by Hurricane Sandy crash into Jeanette's Pier in Nags Head, N.C., Saturday, Oct. 27, as the storm moves up the East Coast. SHIP BOTTOM,...
View ArticleMegastorm Could Wreak Havoc Across 800 Miles of U.S.
Updated Sunday, Oct. 28. 11:43 a.m. ET NOAA SHIP BOTTOM, New Jersey (AP) - Tens of millions of people in the eastern third of the U.S. in the path of a massive freak storm had braced Sunday for the...
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