Songs from space reach ears on Earth
Oct. 4 – If you thought it was quiet in space, you were wrong. Instruments aboard NASA’s orbiting Radiation Belt Storm Probes have picked up audio from the phenomenon known as “chorus” radio waves...
Category: Geophysical
The Sun Unleashes a Wide, but Benign, CME
NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory captured this image of a particularly wide coronal mass ejection (CME) that erupted from the sun at 10:23 p.m. EDT on Sep. 27, 2012. The leading edge of the...
UK: Homes evacuated and schools closed after wild weather sweeps country
Torrential downpours swept Britain for a second day, causing flooding in the heart of a historic market town and creating chaos on one of the country’s busiest train lines. • Parts of Scotland cut...
Torrential rain, 70mph winds and flood warnings as gales hit Britain
Britain was braced for torrential rain, storms and widespread flooding today as hundreds of people prepared to evacuate their homes. The Met Office predicted severe gale force winds up to 70mph, heavy rain and...
Drought area expands in northern U.S., eases in south
(Reuters) – The worst drought to hit the United States in a half century expanded in the upper Midwest and northern Plains states in the past week due to warmer- and drier-than-normal weather, but...
Rare ‘fire devil’ caught on film
Nature’s not much for subtlety. Just ask Chris Tangey, who watched in awe as a 100-foot-high whirlwind of fire tore around a patch of Australian outback Tuesday Sept. 11. Tangey, a filmmaker, managed to...
NASA | Arctic Cyclone Breaks Up Sea Ice
Watch how the winds of a large Arctic cyclone broke up the thinning sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean in early August 2012. The storm likely contributed to the ice cap’s shrinking to...
Flood insurance pays off many repeat victims
1% of flood insurance policyholders file more than a quarter of all claims against the National Flood Insurance Program. Since 1997, repetitive flooding claims involving the same properties increased by 73% More facts, www.FaceTheFactsUSA.org...
‘Super typhoon’ with 170 mph winds heading for Okinawa and South Korea
A storm packing 170 mph winds was bearing down on the southern end of Japan’s Okinawa Island, where locals and U.S. military personnel stationed at several bases were quickly stocking up and battening down....
Japan not ready for Mt Fuji eruption
In the foothills of Mount Fuji, a festival to the gods of the mountain. “We’re trying to calm the fires of Mt Fuji, you know to stop it erupting.” “There are lots of examples...
