Fire has returned to California's wine country as the flames thrive on bounties of parched land. The County Fire began on Saturday afternoon and since then has devoured over 1,000 acres of land each hour. As of Tuesday morning, the Golden State's largest fire had spread...
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[ad_1] The eruption from Hawaii's Mount Kilauea has seen lava oozing from the volcano in stunning, frightening pictures, but it's also brought about quite the oddity: Falling glass. It's called Pele's hair, and they're light strands of volcanic glass that have been falling downwind from the...
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[ad_1] The National Hurricane Center has named the first storm of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, precisely one week before the season is expected to begin on June 1. Currently spinning off of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, forecasters named the subtropical storm "Alberto," which is the first...
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[ad_1] Thunderstorms on Earth can be terrifying things. But from space those same events take on a beautiful, even ghostly edge. A new time-lapse video from the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) onboard the GOES-17 weather satellite, which launched to space on March 1, 2018, shows flashes of...
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[ad_1] 11. Tornadoes Tornadoes are such a rare weather phenomena that they attract hundreds, if not thousands, of storm chasers to the Great Plains each spring and early summer, in the hope of glimpsing one of these beasts. Tornadoes, which are not their own cloud type,...
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[ad_1] Image: U.S. Geological Survey via Getty ImagesBy Adam Rosenberg2018-05-05 17:19:14 UTC Right on the heels of Thursday's volcano eruption in Hawaii, a pair of earthquakes struck the state as residents contended with ongoing evacuations and noxious gas in the air. The first, a 5.4-magnitude quake...
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[ad_1] The Earth's atmosphere is more saturated with greenhouse gases now than at any other time in human history. For the first time on record, the average amount of carbon dioxide — the main long-lived gas responsible for global warming — in the air passed...
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[ad_1] Spring tornadoes may or may not be your worst enemy. In the midwest, severe weather is expected sooner than you think due to a unusually cold April. More information here Read more...
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[ad_1] Pakistani people taking bath in the canal water to beat the heat.Image: LightRocket via Getty ImagesBy Andrew Freedman2018-05-02 16:11:21 UTC It's happened again. After setting a national record for the hottest temperature during the month of March, the temperature in Nawabshah, in the Sindh...
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[ad_1] The different colour morphs of Acropora millepora, each exhibiting a bleaching response during mass coral bleaching event.Image: ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef studies/ Gergely TordaBy Johnny Lieu2018-04-30 02:39:41 UTC Following bad news after bad news...
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