Severe Storms Pummel Northwest
Updated Nov. 20, 11:50 a.m. High winds whip surf and spray at Boiler Bay State Scenic Viewpoint, north of Depot Bay, Ore., on Monday. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Brent Wojahn) SEATTLE (AP) - Residents in...
View ArticleNew Jersey Beaches 30 to 40 Feet Narrower After Superstorm
A bulldozer pushes piles of sand around on the Ocean Grove, N.J., on Nov. 15. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry) SPRING LAKE, N.J. (AP) - The average New Jersey beach is 30 to 40 feet narrower after Superstorm...
View ArticleExperts: Drought a Sign of Climate Change
(AP Photo) DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - This year's drought is consistent with predictions that global climate change would bring about weather extremes including more frequent droughts, said a report...
View ArticleTropical Reefs Become Biggest U.S. Marine Sanctuary
Rose Atoll, part of the new National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa. (Credit: Dr. Jean Kenyon, NOAA/NMFS/PIFSC) A pristine tropical reef that has weathered several natural disasters is now part of...
View ArticleRemembering the Deadly November 1992 Tornado Outbreak
Dave Murray, Jr/AFP/Getty Images 1 of 8 Twenty years ago this week, on Nov. 21, 1992, six tornadoes touched down near Houston, Texas, beginning one of the worst tornado outbreaks in American history....
View ArticleThe Daily Rush: Skiers Soar Over Thundering Avalanche
The release of the new James Bond flick, "Skywall," has me thinking about the insane stunts featured in some of the great Bond films. But I'm not sure those Hollywood stunts have anything on the...
View ArticleRubble Cleanup a Massive Task After Sandy
A crane sits atop a pile of storm debris in a parking lot in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., on Nov. 15. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry) NEW YORK (AP) - Just a few months ago, the parking lot at Jacob Riis Park on...
View ArticleU.N.: Greenhouse Gases at Record High in 2011
A thermal oxidizer, the large tower on the right, will flare methane gas and covert it to carbon dioxide. (AP Photo/The Aspen Daily News, Chris Council) GENEVA (AP) - The main global warming pollutant...
View ArticleSandy Leads to Thanksgiving Rental Car Shortage
Cars that were uprighted and submerged by Superstorm Sandy remain at the entrance of a subterranean parking garage in New York's Financial District on Nov. 2. (AP Photo) NEW YORK (AP) - Thanksgiving...
View Article'Lord of the Rings' Volcano Erupts in New Zealand
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - A New Zealand volcano erupted with a brief blast of dark ash Wednesday, canceling flights but causing no significant damage. Schoolchildren and dozens of other hikers...
View ArticleManhattan-Sized Iceberg Primed to Drop into Ocean
The Pine Island Glacier in western Antarctica has been seemingly poised to calve off a giant iceberg. (Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) With its protective sea ice barrier melted away,...
View ArticleAstronauts Will Get Thanksgiving Feast in Space
The Thanksgiving feast shuttle astronauts ate in space on Nov. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan) By Clara Moskowitz Turkey and all the trimmings are a staple for Americans on Thanksgiving, and that...
View ArticleSandy Victims Prepare for Subdued Thanksgiving
Nov. 21, 2012 Backhoe operator Keith Henry levels a storm-damaged home in the Breezy Point section of the Queens borough of New York on Nov. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) NEW YORK (AP) - It will...
View ArticleU.S. Roads, Airports Unready for Extreme Weather
Water reaches the street level of the flooded Battery Park Underpass Oct. 30 in New York, following Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, File) WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's lifelines - its...
View ArticleThe View from the Twittersphere
Wildernesschic/Twitter 1 of 10 Ruth Johnston tweeted this photo of a sunset, writing, "#sunset #wales #countrylife #countryside #nature #skies #sky #skyporn #clouds #cloudporn #iphonesia #instamo"...
View ArticleThanksgiving Travel Forecast
Fairer weather returns to the northwestern corner of the nation this Thanksgiving Thursday as a cold front impacting the regions heads eastward through the Plains towards the Upper Midwest and high...
View ArticleUS Drought Worsens After Weeks of Improvement
A tree trunk rests on the bed of a dried lake, the outcome of severe drought, in Waterloo, Neb. (AP Photo) ST. LOUIS (AP) - The worst U.S. drought in decades has deepened again after more than a month...
View ArticleClimate Scientists Applaud Dire World Bank Report
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Suomi NPP Climate scientists who have been warning of the dangerous effects of global warming now have the World Bank on their side, after a new report from that organization calling...
View ArticleNew Zealand Volcano At Risk for More Eruptions
Credit: Via Stuff.co.nz | Lomi Schaumkel/Tamatea Intermediate School New Zealand's Mount Tongariro volcano erupted for the second time this year on Wednesday, sending a plume of ash 2.5 miles skyward...
View ArticleThanksgiving Parade Brings Cheer to Storm-Hit NYC
Macy's workers unfold a balloon to be inflated for the 86th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) NEW YORK (AP) - The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade kicked off in New...
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