Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., investigated how Earth’s plant life is likely to react over the next three centuries as Earth’s climate changes in response to rising levels of
The haze which has been blanketing northern India for several weeks continues to plague the region in mid-December, 2011. The thick aerosol soup not only hugs the southern face of the Himalaya, but also pours southward over both coasts, stretching across the Bay of
Canada pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change Monday, saying the accord won’t help solve the climate crisis. It dealt a blow to the anti-global warming treaty, which has not been formally renounced by any other country.Environment Minister Peter Kent said
Thousands of migratory birds were killed or injured after apparently mistaking a Wal-Mart parking lot, football fields and other snow-covered areas of southern Utah for bodies of water and plummeting to the ground. One state wildlife expert called the worst mass bird
Magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck south of the Kermadec Islands today at 10:10:08 UTC with epicenter located 130 km (80 miles) South of L’Esperance Rock, 386 km (239 miles) SouthWest of Raoul Island and 734 km (456 miles) NorthEast of Auckland, New Zealand (32.604°S,
Tropical storm “Sendong” could set sights on the southern Philippines by Friday if the latest Pacific tropical cyclone develops according to forecasts. The likely path and strength of this weather system would make for damaging wind and flooding rain reaching
The National Meteorological Service (SMN) reports that September was one of the driest months in some 70 years. All the signs suggest this is the worst year for drought since 1941. The worst drought in 70 years has left thousands of cattle dead and destroyed more than
Thailand has been experiencing one of its worst flood crises in recent history, with 64 of 77 provinces and more than five million people, about 8 per cent of the population, affected since July 2011. Worsening sanitation conditions, related to stagnating water and few
Strong magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit Papua New Guinea today at 05:04:56 UTC and was located 89 km (55 miles) SSW of Lae, New Guinea, 123 km (76 miles) ENE of Kerema, New Guinea and 221 km (137 miles) NNW of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (7.518°S, 146.767°E).
Two new tropical depressions form in West pacific area. Tropical depression 26W formed off coast of Vietnam in South China Sea and heading toward Malaysia and Indonesia and tropical depresion 27 W is formed near Guam in Philippine Sea and heading toward
