Watch: Cherry Blossoms Herald Spring in D.C.
More than a million visitors are expected to head to the nation's capital to enjoy the start of spring with the Cherry Blossom Festival. If they hope to see the cherry blossoms in full bloom, they...
View ArticleWatch: Magnitude 6.3 Quake Hits Iran; At Least 37 Dead
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck the southern coast of Iran, leaving at least 37 people dead and hundreds injured. The quake struck near a nuclear power plant, but the United Nations nuclear agency...
View ArticleCan NASA Really Capture an Asteroid?
An artist's illustration of an asteroid retrieval spacecraft capturing a 500-ton asteroid that is about 7 meters wide. (Credit: Rick Sternbach/Keck Institute for Space Studies) NASA's bold plan to...
View ArticleToday's 10 Must-See Photos: 4-10-2013
AP Photo/Matt Rourke 1 of 10 A cyclist passes spring flowers on a day when temperatures were expected to reach lows in the 80s on Wednesday, April 10, in Philadelphia. share Share on Tumblr Pin It...
View Article10 Epic Photos of Yosemite National Park
Getty Images 1 of 10 California's Yosemite National Park is known for its granite cliffs, rushing waterfalls, mountain streams and giant sequoia trees. The 1,200-square-mile park is 95 percent...
View ArticleNew Camera Takes 3D Photographs of Snowflakes in Mid-Air
3D Photos of snowflakes falling in mid-air. (Tim Garrett, University of Utah) No two snowflakes are alike - but you've never seen them quite like this. A new device can take 3D photographs of snow as...
View Article'Dark Lightning' Sparks Call for More Earth-Gazing Satellites
Artist impression of a terrestrial gamma-ray flash, called "dark lightning," originating from a thunderstorm. The gamma rays (pink), in turn, generate electrons and positrons (yellow and green), their...
View Article3 Dead in Storm Packing Ice, Snow, Tornadoes
Updated Thursday, April 11, 5:56 p.m. ET Hazelwood fire fighters gather outside a home in Hazelwood that was damaged by a storm on Wednesday, April 10, 2013. (AP Photo/David Carson, Post-Dispatch)...
View ArticleRussia's Sochi Busy Storing Snow for 2014 Olympics
In this Friday, April 5, 2013 photo a snowcat shoves heaps of snow as part of an effort to store the snow for the following winter. (AP Photo/ Nataliya Vasilyeva) SOCHI, Russia (AP) - In April, at the...
View ArticleWhy Are Frogs Disappearing in the Caribbean?
In this March 21, 2013 photo, Ana Longo, a researcher with Proyecto Coqui, holds a Coqui Guajon or Rock Frog at a tropical forest in Patillas, Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo) PATILLAS, Puerto...
View ArticleSevere Weather Risk Thursday Pittsburgh to Mobile, Augusta
Thunderstorms Thursday, some which can be severe at the local level, will reach from part of the Ohio Valley to the Gulf Coast and southern Atlantic Seaboard. The storms will bring isolated incidents...
View ArticleEurope's New Space Weather Center to Track Sun Storms
ESA's new Space Weather Coordination Centre (SSCC), housed in the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels (Credit: ROB/Royal Observatory Belgium) The European Space Agency opened a new space weather...
View ArticleTurkey Vultures Freezing, Falling From Sky
No, Chicken Little, the sky isn't falling. It's merely a frozen turkey vulture dropping from the sky. Sound like fiction? The scenario became a reality in Sioux Falls, S.D. earlier this week when a...
View ArticleToday's 10 Must-See Photos: 4-11-2013
AP Photo/Danny Johnston 1 of 10 A flag flutters over what remains of the sanctuary of the Botkinburg Foursquare Church in Botkinburg, Ark., Thursday, April 11, after a severe storm struck the building...
View ArticleSandy Retired from Tropical Storm Name List
April 11, 2013 Flood damaged streets are viewed in the Rockaway section of Queens where the historic boardwalk was washed away due to Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 31, 2012, in the Queens borough of New York...
View ArticleLive: Severe Storms, Tornadoes Hitting Mississippi
April 11, 2013 Thunderstorms will be affecting a large portion of the East through tonight as a storm system brings severe weather to areas from Louisiana into Pennsylvania. The biggest threats with...
View ArticleWatch: Big-Wave Surfing Wipeouts of the Year
The good people behind the Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards have nominated finalists in a range of categories, including -- brace yourself -- best wipeout of the year. The winners will be...
View ArticlePhotos: Severe Storms and Tornadoes Strike Midwest, South
WBCIWEATHER/twitter 1 of 14 WBCIWEATHER uploaded this photo of a funnel cloud in Mississippi on April 11 and wrote, "Here's a picture we received from the Tornado in Prairie Point - Noxubee County....
View ArticleSpring Storm Socks Midwest, Deep South; 3 Dead
Updated Friday, April 12, 5:47 p.m. ET Huntsville Fire and Rescue crews remove a downed tree blocking traffic as strong storms passed through Huntsville, Ala., on Thursday, April 11, 2013. (AP...
View ArticleUrban Flooding, Severe Storm Risk for Northeast
Severe storms are possible Friday from eastern North Carolina to central New York state and will spread across New Jersey, eastern New York state, and southeastern and central New England throughout...
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