• December 21, 2012 – “Why the World Didn’t End Yesterday”

    We are now less than a week apart from December 21, 2012, the most notable date in modern history. NASA is so sure the world won’t come to an end on December. 21, 2012, that they already released a video for the day after.According to  Dr. John Carlson, director of

  • Dust blowing over Caspian Sea and Sarygamysh Lake

    Plume of dust can be seen blowing westward over several bodies of water in this image of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan (top to bottom). In the upper left quadrant, the dust blows over the northern section of the Caspian Sea. In the lower right quadrant, the

  • Tropical Cyclone Evan leaves Samoa – heads toward Fiji and Vanuatu

    Evan peaked with wind speeds of 110 km/h (nearly 70 mph), causing major damage in the Samoan capital of Apia and leaving three people dead and seven missing. Evan left about 3 000 people in shelters. The system is expected to slowly strengthen before it affects Fiji…

  • Increased seismic activity at Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador

    Seismicity has increased dramatically at Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador. Given the open-vent state of the volcano, eruption is hours to days away according to EarthquakeReport.Tungurahua volcano showed a decrease in explosive activity, seismic activity and rate of

  • 2012 Geminid meteor shower

    Last night Earth passed through a stream of dusty debris from Comet 3200 Phaethon and sky observers around globe witnessed amazing Geminid meteor shower, with more than 120 meteors per hour at the peak.Earth now slowly exits 3200 Phaethon’s debris stream and the

  • Earth from space: River Po live!

    Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios and in the forty-seventh edition, you can look at the Po River, which flows over 650 km across northern Italy. The live transmission is scheduled for 09:00 UTC on November 14,

  • Smoke continues to plague India and Bangladesh

    Smoke from agricultural fires continues to plague northern India and its eastern neighbor, Bangladesh. On the image bellow you can see the smoke which is in fact thickest over the latter state, obscuring much of the land below, although the mouths of the Ganges are

  • Alert raised on Level 2 for New Zealand’s White Island volcano

    GNS Science volcanologists raised volcanic alert to Level 2 (minor eruptive activity) and the Aviation Color Code to Orange level (volcanic eruption is under way with no or minor ash emission) after discovering a spiny lava dome at White Island volcano in an existing