Battling Weather in Afghanistan
There is a new battle going on in Afghanistan these days, one that has everything to do with weather. U.S. soldiers and Afghans alike are battling brutal conditions after the capital city of Kabul...
Category: Geophysical
I Feel Duped on Climate Change
The articulate utility executive is nervous at the beginning of the conversation. He is groping for words — not a common occurrence for the practiced provocateur. After all, Fritz Vahrenholt, 62, who holds a...
Sun points a loaded gun at us
As solar activity builds toward an expected peak in 2013, a double-barreled sunspot has been doubling in size over the past couple of days and now has the potential to shoot significant eruptions in...
3-D Map Study Shows Before-After of Quake Sites
Geologists have a new tool to study how earthquakes change the landscape, and it’s giving them insight into how earthquake faults behave. In the Feb. 10 issue of the journal Science, a team of...
Europe’s Danube freezes over, cold snap toll at 460
Thick ice closed vast swathes of the Danube on Thursday, crippling shipping on Europe’s busiest waterway, as the death toll from bitter cold across the continent rose to at least 460. As it has...
Of orbits and ice ages, Axis Tilt
Though it was first suggested well over a century ago, the hypothesis that changes in Earth’s orientation relative to its orbit influence the growth and decline of ice sheets was only recently tested. As...
Deadly floods follow in iced-over Europe
SOFIA, Bulgaria — Much of Europe is still covered in snow and ice, but some areas are already seeing deadly flooding amid concerns that it will get worse before it gets better. Swollen rivers...
Thousands trapped by record snowfall
(multimedia) Bosnia used helicopters on Sunday to evacuate the sick and deliver food to thousands left stranded by its heaviest snowfall on record. Across Europe, millions of people continued digging out in a cold...
Australian authorities urge residents of Queensland town to flee floods
(CNN) — Australian authorities on Monday pleaded with hundreds of people who had chosen to remain in a town in the path of rising flood waters to vacate their homes. The level of the...
Philippines earthquake kills scores
MANILA, Philippines – A strong earthquake in the central Philippines killed at least 43 people Monday as it destroyed buildings and triggered landslides that buried dozens of houses, trapping residents. Dozens more people were...
