Over the last few weeks torrential rainfall across northern India and Nepal has been inducing widespread flooding, cloudbursts, riverbank erosions and massive landslides. Heavy monsoon rains started about two weeks earlier than usual.
Torrential downpours
Tropical Depression 3-E took shape on June 23, 2013 about 500 miles south of Manzanillo, Mexico, in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and strengthened into Tropical Storm Cosme early on June 24, 2013.
According to latest public advisory issued by US
Strong earthquake registered as M6.4 (USGS) occurred at northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 22:04 UTC on June 24, 2013. USGS registered depth of 10.0km (6.2 miles).The epicenter was located 1248 km (775 miles) ENE of Cayenne, French Guiana and 1 359 km (844 miles) NNE of Sal
Two new areas of low pressure are forming in the East Pacific. Both of these systems pose little if any threat to land as they continue to move westward away from the mainland.
Combined infrared image by GOES West (09:30 UTC, June 23, 2013) and GOES East
Mount Shasta volcano showed signs of elevated seismicity since June 11, 2013. The volcano typically displays a relatively low rate of earthquake occurrence. Earthquake-Report connects the recent uptick in seismicity at Mount Shasta, the Greenville earthquake
Bebinca made its first landfalls as a tropical storm on the eastern part of Hainan Island in the South China Sea on June 22, 2013. The storm system weakened to a depression due the land interaction, but it's expected to move further to the west-northwest
The ocean is the most prominent feature on Earth, and of immeasurable importance to life on the planet. But what would it look like if all of the water was drained out of it?
Though ships have mapped only a small portion of the ocean floor, satellites are used
The thick smog from large illegal slash-and-burn land clearance practices in Sumatra has been carried by prevailing winds blowing from the southwest, and has been affecting Singapore, Malaysia and surrounding areas since June 13, 2013, pushing
On June 23, 2013 the full moon will not only be the closest to Earth for the year, but it will also appear the biggest full moon for 2013. It will be 14% bigger and 30% brighter than other full Moons of 2013. It is also known as a supermoon and it will be
Since Wednesday June 19, 2013 almost 200 millimeters of rain have fallen in some areas in Alberta, Canada devastating communities, creating mudslides and washing out many roads. On Thursday June 20, 2013 river banks have burst throughout southern Alberta, because
