• Nor’easter to be weaker than expected

    An early-season nor’easter storm will bring another round of coastal flooding in areas hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy Wednesday into Thursday. It is now forecast to be weaker and move farther offshore than originally forecast. That’s good news for New Jersey and New

  • “Helvetia Dream” Timelapse by Alessandro Della Bella

    ‘Helvetia’s Dream’ is a timelapse video that will take you on a nighttime journey to some of the most beautiful spots in the Swiss Alps – from Arosa to Zermatt, Matterhorn and Eiger. It is released as Vimeo Staff Pick video.Author, Alessandro Della Bella,

  • Our world is changing: Looking beyond ‘the 2012’

    If you haven’t seen this video take a look, it’s worth watching. As with everything else, it’s up to you to make your own opinion. All the links are below. Information courtesy of NASA, NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the US Library,

  • Kamchatkan Kizimen volcano eruption captured by MODIS

    Kizimen volcano, (Kamchatka) which erupted for the first time in 81 years in December 2010, continues to emit gas and ash. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured these natural-color (top) and false-color

  • SAMPEX – Earth’s radiation belts

    This is a simulation of the Earth’s radiation belts constructed from SAMPEX data around the time of the 2003 Halloween solar storms. In this visualization, we present the belts in cross-section to provide a better view of their interior structure.The Earth’s

  • How big is the Universe? – Cosmic Wakening

    Cosmic Wakening brings us a video showing us how big the universe is, or, how big it could be. No words can describe how big the Universe is but hopefully this video will help us to understand.Cosmic Weakening youtube

  • Retreat of Crane Glacier on Antarctic’s Larsen-B ice shelf

    Hektoria and Crane glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula have continued thinning since the Larsen-B ice shelf’s collapse in 2002.  They are considered to be among some of the fastest changing in recent years. Almost the entire Larsen B Ice Shelf splintered and