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The World's Biggest Insects
JKiesow via Flickr 1 of 13 The next time you absentmindedly brush away a housefly or the itsy-bitsy spider that crosses your path, consider yourself lucky. Some of nature's creatures, like the...
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Fishing Expedition Finds Weird Deep-Sea Sharks
Paul Clerkin with false catshark, a large and elusive deep-sea species. (Paul Clerkin) By Andrea Mustain A two-month fishing expedition to the Indian Ocean has turned up hundreds of strange deep-sea...
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Melting Greenland Ice Sheet Breaks 30-Year Record
A supraglacial lake over the Greenland ice sheet in the Kangerlussuaq area photographed on July 21, 2012. The lake feeds a stream that will deliver meltwater to the low elevations where it will either...
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Severe Storms, Hail to Strike Midwest Today
(AP) Wet and unsettled weather conditions will continue in the Midwest as a cold front with waves of low pressure push through the region. Showers and thunderstorms are anticipated near the system as...
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Tropical Storm Takes Shape in the Atlantic
(NOAA) MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Gordon has formed in the Atlantic but is expected to move away from the United States. Gordon's maximum sustained winds early Thursday are near 40 mph (65 kph). The...
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Wacky Weather Brings Early Harvest to Northeast Apple Growers
(AP) SUTTONS BAY, Mich. (AP) - Apple-picking, a cherished autumn tradition, is off to an early start in the Northeast and Upper Midwest as growers deal with aftershocks from wacky spring weather that...
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Northwest Passage Could Open for Second Time
Aug. 16, 2012 On the left, ice fills Parry Channel on July 17. At right, on Aug. 3 the same region has dramatically less ice. (NASA Earth Observatory) Rapid summer ice melting may lead to opening of...
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20 Surprising Ways to Predict the Weather
Lance Cunningham via Twitter 1 of 21 Can your coffee cup tell you if a storm is coming? Do crickets know the temperature? Long before we had satellites and Doppler radar, humans relied on folklore,...
View ArticleWatch: Kitesurfers Take Flight
A beautiful, two-minute introduction to the sport of kitesurfing. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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1 Boy Dead, Another Missing in Yosemite River
In this July 20, 2011 file photo, a hiker takes a photo from the top of Vernal Falls in Yosemite. (AP) TRACIE CONE, Associated Press FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - One boy died and another was missing after...
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Dallas Plans to Drop Insecticide to Combat West Nile
A plane that will be used for aerial spraying is rolled onto the tarmac for a news conference in Dallas, Thursday, Aug. 16. (AP) SARAH KUTA,Associated Press DALLAS (AP) - The last time Dallas used...
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Remembering Hurricane Andrew, 20 Years Later
NASA 1 of 11 Twenty years ago this month, one of the most devastating hurricanes in U.S. history slammed into Florida, Louisiana and the Bahamas. Hurricane Andrew ravaged countless communities,...
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Strong Storms, Damaging Winds to Pound the Northeast Today
(AP) A cold front moving through the Eastern US will produce more showers and thunderstorms on Friday. This system will advance southeastward and move over the Ohio River Valley and Mid-Mississippi...
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Watch: Massive Waves Pummel Chilean Coast
Monstrous waves off the coast of Llollea, Chile wreaked havoc on the town, flooding streets, and causing a ship to wreck just offshore, prompting a rescue operation. RELATED ON SKYE: 10 U.S. Cities...
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Doomed Polar Explorer's Famed Ship Found on Seafloor
By Andrea Mustain A research vessel testing its underwater mapping equipment recently made a remarkable discovery: the wreck of the Terra Nova, the famed ship that took British explorer Robert Falcon...
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17-Foot-Long Burmese Python Caught in Everglades
Researchers examine the internal anatomy of the largest Burmese python found in Florida to date. (AP Photo/University of Florida, Kristen Grace) By Matt Sedensky WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The...
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Pieces of Amelia Earhart's Plane Located?
A screengrab from underwater video shows a semicircle at top (the fender?) and a round object off to right. (TIGHAR) Pieces of Amelia Earhart's plane might have been located in the depths of the...
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Isaac Drenches Haiti, Churns Toward Cuba and Florida
Saturday, Aug. 25, 10:55 a.m. ET Wearing a Dominican Red Cross T-shirt, a boy walks through a flooded street after Tropical Storm Isaac hit in Barahona, Dominican Republic, on Saturday. (AP)...
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Florida Prepares for Isaac Ahead of GOP Convention
Saturday, Aug. 25, 10:14 p.m. ET A resident loads sandbags in his pick-up truck in anticipation of possible floods generated by tropical storm Isaac in Tampa, Florida, Friday. (Getty Images) TAMPA,...
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Storm Forces GOP to Scrap First Day of Convention
(Getty Images) TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Republican officials abruptly announced plans Saturday night to scrap the first day of their national convention, bowing to the threat of Tropical Storm Isaac as it...
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