As a tourist was filming the Iceberg in Greenland yesterday, a part of the iceberg started to crack and break before their very own eyes. Before they knew it, part of that iceberg started to cave in to the sea. Luckily only a small part of what could have been a much
More than 40 workers at a nuclear power station in northern India have been exposed to tritium radiation in two separate leaks in the past five weeks. The first accident occurred on June 23, 2012 when 38 people were exposed during maintenance work on a coolant channel
Torrential rain that exploded over the Western Bay of Plenty closed one of the region’s major highways and left people stranded at home as floodwaters rose and rivers burst their banks. A heavy rain warning is in place and flooding is expected to affect a number of
According to plant owner Exelon, the Oyster Creek nuclear power station in New Jersey was shut down early Monday morning, July 23, 2012 after a power failure.Electrical service from the outside grid was disrupted at around 3:41 a.m., and the plant’s emergency
Missouri Governor Nixon declared a state of emergency on July 23, 2012 due to prolonged severe heat and drought.Governor explained in his statement that the emergency was declared because of public health, agricultural and fire risk concerns.Executive Order
The fire that broke out around 6:40 UTC, July 23, 2km south of Crikvenica, and spread towards Selce is still threatening populated areas. Strong winds of more than 100km an hour made tackling the fires very difficult as water-bombing planes could not be used.Some
Here’s the latest video of nighttime passes of the International Space Station over Earth, assembled by photographer Knate Myers, compiled and arranged in Sony Vegas. Every frame in this video is a photograph taken from the ISS.View from the ISS at Night from
Powerful Typhoon Vicente is making landfall in Guangdong, China, just to the southwest of Hong Kong. Vicente strengthened rapidly over the past 12 hours and now is moving in near Macau and Pinghsa, China with maximum sustained winds equivalent to a Category 3 to 4
Dust from Sahara traversed an entire ocean in July 2012. A dust plume extended across the Atlantic Ocean toward the Caribbean Sea and Florida. We reported already about dusty clouds over Florida and now we bring you color-coded map, made from data collected by
Seismicity at Mt. Tongariro, New Zealand looks to have decreased a lot yesterday and today. GNS science reported however today that : “Provisional analysis of the gas samples collected at the weekend indicates the presence of volcanic gas. Our historic sampling has
