Solar Eclipse Darkens North Australia
People watch the solar eclipse from a hot air balloon near Cairns, Australia, Wednesday. (AP Photo/Hot Air Balloon Cairns) SYDNEY (AP) - From boats bobbing on the Great Barrier Reef, to hot air...
View ArticleIn Sandy, NYC Rescuers Find Themselves Victims
A mailbox sits on the porch of a burned out home in the Breezy Point section of New York, Tuesday. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) NEW YORK (AP) - When Sandy's storm surge plowed into the seaside...
View ArticleKilimanjaro Ice Field Shrinks and Splits
The largest remaining ice field on Kilimanjaro shrank and separated into two pieces. The gap is visible in an image acquired by the Advanced Land Imager on NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite. (Credit:...
View ArticleBoss of Disgraced NYC Utility Quits After Sandy Response
A plea to the Long Island Power Authority for electricity to be restored is posted on a barrier in Mastic Beach, N.Y. (AP) UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) - The chief operating officer of a utility company...
View ArticleWill Nor'easter Impact Thanksgiving Travel?
(AP Photo) Just as the northeast begins to breathe easier after the battering it received from Hurricane Sandy and a destructive nor'easter, weather forecasters are delivering more bad news: A...
View ArticlePhotos: Northern Lights Dazzle New England, Midwest
ronstang07/twitter 1 of 12 Caused by a geomagnetic storm, the dazzling colors of aurora borealis, or the northern lights, were visible Tuesday evening across parts of New England, the Midwest and...
View ArticleObama Wants 'Conversation' on Climate Change
President Barack Obama makes an opening statement during his news conference, Wednesday, Nov. 14 in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP) WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama said...
View ArticleWidescreen Aerial Photos of New York City During Sandy
Iwan Baan/Getty Images 1 of 3 In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, half of Manhattan is dark. Con Ed cut power to Lower Manhattan Oct. 29. The blackout persisted in much of the area until Nov. 3....
View Article16 Stunning Aerial Photos of New York City During Sandy
Iwan Baan/Getty Images 1 of 16 On Oct. 29, as Superstorm Sandy began pummeling New York, Con Ed cut off power to lower Manhattan to protect its electrical equipment. Half of the city was plunged into...
View ArticleWhat Does It Take to Get People to Flee a Storm?
A man stands outside his beachfront home in Coney Island's Sea Gate community after it was damaged in superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo) NEW YORK (AP) - Despite days of dire forecasts and explicit warnings,...
View ArticleObama to View Superstorm Recovery in NYC
President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama was traveling to New York City on Thursday...
View ArticleNY Utilities Con Ed, LIPA Subpoenaed in Sandy Work
Consolidated Edision trucks submerged near the Con Ed power plant on Oct. 29, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The utility companies Consolidated Edison and Long Island...
View ArticleWatch: Massive Tornadoes Rip Through Japan
The Western region of Japan was slammed by two tornadoes on Wednesday, one of which was filmed from a helicopter. The tornado lasted approximately 10 minutes and dissipated when it reached land,...
View ArticleWWII-Era Love Letters Wash Ashore After Sandy
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, N.J. (AP) - World War II-era love letters written by a New Jersey woman to her boyfriend washed ashore during Superstorm Sandy. A 14-year-old found the 57 letters inside a box...
View ArticleBP Agrees to Pay $4.5B in Settlement Over 2012 Gulf Oil Spill
Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012 A large plume of smoke rises from fires on BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) NEW ORLEANS (AP) -...
View ArticleBamboo Gardens to Replace Some L.A. Billboards?
Imagine you're driving across congested Los Angeles streets and look up at yet another billboard. But instead of seeing an ad looming overhead, you spot a bamboo garden rustling in the breeze. It...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy Exposes Fire Island Shipwreck
The presumed remains of the Bessie White, a wrecked schooner long buried under Fire Island's dunes, now lay fully exposed following Hurricane Sandy. (Photo: Cheryl Hapke, USGS) By Becky Oskin,...
View ArticleThe View from the Twittersphere
Twitter/jenn_cordova17 1 of 10 Jenn Cordova, a student at Oklahoma State University, tweeted a photo of clouds above her school's football stadium, writing, "Srry I had 2 take a sky pic...
View ArticleObama Views Sandy Recovery in Tour of NYC
President Barack Obama visits workers at the FEMA recovery center on the grounds of New Dorp High School on Staten Island, on Thursday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) NEW YORK (AP) - President Barack Obama...
View ArticlePower Outage Time After Sandy Not Extraordinary
A utility crew works to restore power on Long Beach Island, N.J., after Superstorm Sandy on Nov. 3. (AP Photo) NEW YORK (AP) - As the number of nights without power stretched on for thousands left in...
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