The United States, England and Australia are all experiencing severe and extreme weather events. In the United States, the East and Southeast have been hit with all types of winter storms. On the West Coast, the drought has reached critical stages of water conservation, as well as, causing wildfires. England is getting hit with the […]
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Extreme Weather Hits U.S., England and Australia
Posted in Environment, Global Warming, International, weather
Tagged climate change, drought, extreme weather events, floods, ice storms, polar vortex, snow storms, storms, volatile
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4.1 Earthquake Hits South Carolina
Event Time 2014-02-15 03:23:38 UTC 2014-02-14 22:23:38 UTC-05:00 at epicenter 2014-02-14 22:23:38 UTC-05:00 system time Location — 33.812°N 82.063°W depth=4.9km (3.0mi) Nearby Cities 12km (7mi) WNW of Edgefield, South Carolina 31km (19mi) NNE of Evans, Georgia 32km (20mi) N of Martinez, Georgia 35km (22mi) NNW of North Augusta, South Carolina 97km (60mi) WSW of Columbia, […]
Java Eruption
JAVA — “Based on verified data, over 76,000 people have been evacuated from five cities around the volcano … and about 200,000 people were affected,” National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Nugroho said. The ash has interrupted air travel in the entire region. Fist-size rocks spewed down on rooftops. The largest problem is supplying masks […]
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Winter Storm Battering Mid-Atlantic and New England
NASA — The monster winter storm that brought icing to the U.S. southeast moved northward along the Eastern Seaboard and brought snow, sleet and rain from the Mid-Atlantic to New England on February 13. A new image from NOAA’s GOES satellite showed clouds associated with the massive winter storm stretch from the U.S. southeast to […]
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Tagged climate change, extreme weather, extreme weather events, global warming, volatile, winter storm
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California Zero Water Allocation
Though much of the United States has been experiencing a cold, high precipitation winter, California has had extreme drought and fire conditions. The State Water Project announced the state reservoir will “effectively be closed for business.” “This is the most serious drought we’ve faced in modern times,” Felicia Marcus, chairwoman of the State Water Resources […]
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Tagged California, climate change, drought, extreme weather events, global warming, volatile, water
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Adrift at Sea for 16 Months
EBON ATOLL — A Mexican man was found washed ashore in his small fiberglass boat on a remote Pacific Ocean island. Since he only speaks Spanish, he has been communicating by drawing pictures. It appears he left Mexico in September of 2012 with a companion on a trip to El Salvador. His companion died several […]
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Tagged adrift at sea, birds, fish, lost, survival, turtles, water
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Post-mortem Brains
National Institute of Mental Health — To expedite research on brain disorders, the National Institutes of Health is shifting from a limited funding role to coordinating a Web-based resource for sharing post-mortem brain tissue. Under a NIH NeuroBioBank initiative, five brain banks will begin collaborating in a tissue sharing network for the neuroscience community. “Instead […]
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Star Explosion
A supernova was discovered in the night sky of London on January 23, 2014. NASA says, “A supernova is the explosion of a star. It is the largest explosion that takes place in space.” The explosion was first discovered by students and their teacher Steve Fossey at the University College London. “It was a surreal […]
Wake Up In Space
A spaceship launched 10 years ago is approaching its target — a comet. A landing unit will harpoon itself to the surface. Comets are among the most beautiful and least understood nomads of the night sky. To date, half a dozen of these most heavenly of heavenly bodies have been visited by spacecraft in an […]
Cheese: Toe, Armpit, Belly Button and Mouth Bacteria
The “Grow Your Own… Life After Nature exhibition,” is an exhibit where cheeses are created using “microbial sketches” created with bacteria samples from various people’s body parts. Each cheese ends up smelling like the donor’s body odor. “I’m really excited about things that sometimes are a little bit gross, a little bit disgusting,” microbiologist Christina […]