• Two cyclones brewing off the Australian coast (Video)

    Tropical Cyclone Watch Dec 21, 2011Two cyclones are brewing off the Australian coast and one is less than 300 kilometres from Darwin. A meteorologist said a cyclone over the Coral Sea was unlikely to cause any major problems. But a tropical low forming off the

  • NASA’s TRMM satellite measured Sendong’s deadly rainfall

    NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite was providing forecasters with the rate in which rainfall was occurring in Tropical Storm Sendong (Washi) over the last week, and now TRMM data has been compiled to show rainfall totals over the devastated

  • Scientists predict major shifts in Earth’s ecosystems

    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

  • Haze over northern India

    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 Kyoto Protocol

    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 birds died landcrashing in Utah, US

    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 Kermadec Islands

    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” on path to Philippines

    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