Debby’s Torrential Rain Continues
(multimedia) Debby is forecast to continue moving very slowly through Wednesday. The tropical storm has dumped as much as 20 inches of rain on parts of northern Florida.
Category: Geophysical
Sea Level Rise Accelerating in U.S. Atlantic Coast
Rates of sea level rise are increasing three-to-four times faster along portions of the U.S. Atlantic Coast than globally, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey report published in Nature Climate Change. Since about...
Tropical Storm Debby produces waterspout
(multimedia) Tropical Storm Debby spawns a waterspout off the coast of Juno Beach, Florida.
Debby’s slow march through Gulf drenches Florida
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Debby spun drenching rains Monday over northern Florida as it hung nearly stationary over theGulf of Mexico, making its biggest threat flooding rather than winds. Tropical storm warnings were in effect along the...
Gulf Of Mexico Storm Threat Sparks Rig Evacuations
Gulf of Mexico energy platforms began evacuations as a weather system off the Yucatan Peninsula threatened to grow into a tropical storm over the weekend. There’s a 70 percent chance the cluster of thunderstorms will...
Apocalyptic Scenes in Duluth MN – Rains, Floods and Sinkholes!
(multimedia) The damage is breathtaking. “The roads are just a disaster around here,” Greg Vogt, with Expert Tire in Duluth said. In and around Duluth, roads collapsed and sinkholes swallowed cars. On East Skyline Drive...
Fires, Smoke in Central Russia
Russia has declared a state of emergency in several eastern regions due to hundreds of wildfires. NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of fires and smoke in north central Russia on June 15, 2012,...
Solar Flares Fire Double Sun Storm at Earth
An active sunspot is amping up the sun’s activity, and has already unleashed two strong solar flares that triggered weekendgeomagnetic storms on Earth, NASA officials say. The M-class solar flares set off two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that erupted from the sun on last Wednesday...
Wildfires force more evacuations as officials say looters targeting victims
(CBS/AP) DENVER – Crews in northern Colorado faced powerful winds Sunday as they battled a blaze that has scorched 87 square miles of mountainous forest land and destroyed at least 181 homes, the most in...
Water pacts re-examined amid Arab Spring
There are moves to rewrite contentious water-sharing agreements that are becoming a major source of friction in the Middle East as water supplies shrink BAGHDAD, June 14 (UPI) — Amid the profound political changes sweeping...
