Wednesday, 7 December, 2011 - 03:39 (0)

Undersea mountains march into the abyss

Startling new images from the depths of the Pacific Ocean reveal one of Earth's most violent processes: the destruction of massive underwater mountains.
Thursday, 17 November, 2011 - 02:26 (0)

Liquid lakes close to moon's skin

Scientists have found the best evidence yet for water just beneath the surface of Jupiter's icy moon, Europa. Analysis of the moon's surface suggests plumes of warmer water well up beneath its icy shell, melting and fracturing the outer layers.
Thursday, 17 November, 2011 - 01:48 (0)

Scientists Warn New York Must Prepare For Climate Change Now

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Devastating floods like those caused in upstate New York by the remnants of Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee are among the climate change effects predicted in a new report written by 50 scientists and released Wednesday by...
Wednesday, 16 November, 2011 - 21:18 (0)

Mississippi Tornado 2011: Suspected Twisters Hit Southeast

LAUREL, Miss. -- A strong storm system that produced several suspected tornadoes hit the Southeast on Wednesday, damaging dozens of homes and buildings. At least 15 people were injured in Mississippi.
Wednesday, 16 November, 2011 - 21:04 (0)

Europe Radiation Persists At Low Levels, International Atomic Energy Agency Says

VIENNA -- The U.N. nuclear agency says that seven European countries are reporting low but unusual levels of radiation for a second week.
Wednesday, 16 November, 2011 - 20:58 (0)

Ohio Gas Line Explodes Near Glouster

GLOUSTER, Ohio — Authorities say the fire from a natural gas line rupture and explosion is under control in a rural area of southern Ohio. The Morgan County sheriff's office says one woman was taken to a hospital after she was found walking down...
Wednesday, 16 November, 2011 - 20:30 (0)

Dramatic Climate Swings Likely as World Warms: Ancient El Niño Clue to Future Floods

 Dramatic climate swings behind both last year's Pakistan flooding and this year's Queensland floods in Australia are likely to continue as the world gets warmer, scientists predict. Researchers at the Universities of Oxford and Leeds have...
Wednesday, 16 November, 2011 - 20:15 (0)

Radioactive farmlands around Fukushima mapped

A study released on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) modeled the spread of cesium-137, a radionuclide that can persist in soils for 30 years, across much of the country.
Tuesday, 15 November, 2011 - 20:15 (0)

Earthquake hits eastern Turkey again

  A magnitude-5.2 quake early on Tuesday shook eastern Turkey, already devastated by two powerful tremors, the Kandilli observatory said. It was not clear whether the latest quake in Van province caused any damage or injuries. Its epicentre was...
Tuesday, 15 November, 2011 - 20:01 (0)

Brisbane flood fears, autorities to release water from dam

A massive dam in northern Australia was to begin draining this week following predictions that Brisbane, the nation’s third-largest city, could be flooded again if heavy rains return. Queensland state goverment officials said the Wivenhoe...
Tuesday, 15 November, 2011 - 19:55 (0)

Red tide and 4.2 milion dead fish warn Texans to stay away from the beaches

Department of State Health Services has issued a warning to the harvesting and consumption of oysters, mussels, clams and whelks from Texas waters but not a warning for Texans to stay away from the toxic red tide area. Red tide toxin (in the...
Tuesday, 15 November, 2011 - 19:49 (0)

North Korea and Iran: 'Evil' nuclear fusion?

Two members of the ‘axis of evil’ conspiring to make nuclear weapons? Such a nightmare scenario would be dreadful indeed. But with unnamed sources claiming North Korea is helping Iran go nuclear, something about the plot seems dreamt up. George W....
Tuesday, 15 November, 2011 - 19:40 (0)

Martian curse: Russian probe may crash in populated area

Russian scientists are struggling to get the country's first interplanetary mission in 15 years back on track. Should they fail, the probe that was due to head to the Martian moon Phobos may well turn into the “most toxic falling satellite ever.”
Tuesday, 15 November, 2011 - 19:32 (0)

How old is the Earth's core? Maybe older than you thought

Aleksey Smirnov, assistant professor of geophysics, with colleagues from the 
Friday, 11 November, 2011 - 06:46 (0)

Evacuations ordered as record storm blasts Alaska

Residents were ordered to evacuate as a massive storm pounded the rural western coast of Alaska on Wednesday with hurricane-force gusts and severe coastal flooding, US meteorologists said. The storm, some 600-800 miles across, was "record or near...
Friday, 11 November, 2011 - 06:32 (0)

Groundwater arsenic pollution could be one of the worst mass poisoning cases in this history of mankind

The source of arsenic in India’s groundwater continues to elude scientists more than a decade after the toxin was discovered in the water supply of the Bengal delta in India. But a recent study with a Kansas State University geologist and graduate...