As food prices creep up again for the third time in five years, concerns about global food security are also on the rise. The United Nations has reported a climb in global food prices after experiencing a decline over the past three months.Since many countries
Ernesto crossed Mexican high terrain and ended up in the eastern Pacific where it has organized into a tropical depression in the eastern Pacific. A piece of Ernesto developed into Tropical Depression 8-E (TD 8E) after emerging over the warm waters of the eastern
The blood-red lakes and rivers in Camargue, France are a scary apocalyptic scene to those unaware that they are just a natural phenomenon. The high concentration of salt made by trillions of salt crystals crusting rocks, branches and shoreline paints the rivers and
A long duration M1.0 solar flare took place on August 11. 2012. The event started at 11:55, peaked at 12:20 and ended at 12:57 UTC. The source of this solar flare was centered around Sunspot 1540. Plasma was magnetically pulled back in towards 1544 located to the
Ice retreated rapidly in the Parry Channel between mid-July and early August 2012. Parry Channel is a part of elusive Northwest Passage. The loss of Arctic sea ice is predicted to open up the Northwest Passage, shortening shipping routes and facilitating the exchange
A UCLA scientist has discovered that the geological phenomenon known as “plate tectonics”, which involves the movement of huge crustal plates beneath a planet’s surface, also exists on Mars. An Yin, planetary geologist and a UCLA professor of Earth and space sciences
Shower and thunderstorm activity is diminishing near a low pressure system located over the far eastern Atlantic just to the east of the Cape Verde Islands. Also visible near the Canary Islands in the image bellow (upper right quadrant) is dust from the Sahara Desert
Ernesto is now tropical rainstorm system and it’s slowly dissipating over southern Mexico’s mountainous terrain. However, it could still come back to life in eastern Pacific and assume a new identity as Hector. The Pacific Ocean waters west of Manzanillo, Mexico,
More than half of the continental U.S. is experiencing extreme drought conditions. Hot temperatures and lack of rain are causing heating and drying up of rivers and streams and killing thousands of fish in the process. According to Division of Fisheries, the rivers’
A very strong and shallow M6.2 earthquake occurred near the Fox Islands (Aleutian Islands), Alaska on August 10, 2012 at 18:37 UTC according to USGS. The epicenter is located 90 km ESE from Nikoloski, the nearest island (52.691°N, 167.484°W). The epicenter of the
