• 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Global sea level drop caused by La Nina

    A new study shows that the 2011 La Nina was so strong that it caused global mean sea level to drop by 5 millimeters (0.2 inches).  This occurred concurrently with the La Nina phase of the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) which involves a shift in ocean surface

  • New flyover videos confirmed new large Louisiana sinkhole collapse

    Disturbing new flyover videos of Louisiana sinkhole showed the amount of land collapsed has increased in size. Last measurements show that the surface of the sinkhole area was 5.5 acres, or equivalent of five football fields.  Based on John Boudreaux, director