A large exclusion zone of 45 km is in place around Hudson volcano in southern Chile (45.90 S, 72.97 W ). The volcano remains on the highest level 5 alert due to high seismic activity. Steam and minor ash emissions reached height of 5.5 km on Thursday 27th October. A
A new study by marine ecologist Dr Thomas Wernberg, of the University of Western Australia and colleagues reveals that swathes of Australia’s seaweed are shifting south to escape warming oceans, and many risk going extinct. Their findings are published in Current
More than half trees in Papua New Guinea could be lost by 2021, according to a new satellite study of the region. The University of Papua New Guinea and the Australian National University conducted the stady that found that deforestation is much more widespread
A rare October snowstorm bore down on the heavily populated U.S. Northeast on Saturday, knocking out power to 1.7 million customers, delaying airline flights and threatening some areas with up to a foot of snow.A storm set to dump heavy, wet snow on millions of
An earthquake with a Magnitude of 4 occurred at the outskirts of the Ecuadorian capital of Quito. Epicenter was located 17 km (10 miles) NE of QUITO, 60 km (37 miles) SSW of Ibarra, 87 km (54 miles) E of Santo Domingo de los Colorados and 126 km (78 miles) NNE
French nuclear monitor said that the amount of caesium 137 that leaked into the Pacific from the Fukushima disaster was the greatest single nuclear contamination of the sea ever seen. But, confirming previous assessments, it said caesium levels had been hugely
The fire season was well underway in northern India as many dozens of fires burned near the Pakistan border in late October, 2011. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua satellite captured this true-color image on October 27, 2011.
Thousands of Bangkok residents flocked to bus, rail and air terminals Thursday while heavy traffic snaked out of the sprawling Thai capital in an exodus from a mass of approaching floodwater. Water was seeping into central areas of the city of 12 million people,
According to USGS, magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck near the coast of central Peru at 18:54:33 UTC; 51 km (31 miles) SSW of Ica, 112 km (69 miles) S of Chincha Alta, 201 km (124 miles) W of Puquio and 288 km (178 miles) SSE of LIMA, Peru (14.515°S, 76.009°W) at
Dust blew off the west coast of Africa and over the Atlantic Ocean in late October 2011. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this natural-color image on October 27, 2011. Dust forms a thin veil of
