• Strong tidal waves in Thailand

    Strong tidal wave and powerful downpour struck the coast of city Pattaya, Thailand. On March 15th sea withdraw from the coast of Pattaya leaving the ships at the pier laying on the bottom. Squally winds brings stormy weather and strong tide to residents. Residents are

  • Spectacular cloud iridescence seen above Himalaya

    Daily Mail brings a story about Oleg Bartunov, 51, who caught the optical spectacle on camera during a Himalayas expedition in Nepal. His two images show almost the whole spectrum of the rainbow in a natural event rarely recorded at Mount Everest. The phenomenon

  • Supermoon about to trigger earthquakes?!

    If you look at eastern sunset on March 19th you will see a full Moon called "perigee moon". Moon's orbit is oval shaped that results with variations of observed size of full Moon. The orbit of Moon is ellipse that called perigee from closer side and…

  • 30 whales stranded near Tasmania

    A group of about 30 pilot whales have become stranded on Bruny Island, south of the Tasmanian state capital Hobart.The whales are stranded on Butlers Beach on the northern tip of Larbillardiere Peninsula adjacent to Partridge Island.Preliminary reports indicate

  • Thousands of seabirds swept by tsunami on Midway atoll

    Thousands Laysan albatross, along with thousands of chicks and other seabirds, perished as tsunami waves reaching 5ft-tall (1,5meter) rolled over the remote low-lying Midway islands just four hours after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck Japan on Friday.The waves

  • Caracas-La Guaira crack expanding

    The Caracas-La Guaira highway, the only path to the main port and airport in the country, is threatened specifically in the first four kilometers due to displacement of a land mass product of the fault line that has worsened in the last four months, to the point that

  • Are we facing a new Chernobyl disaster?

    Dangerously high doses of radiation have been detected in or near the compounds of the quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture. Japan's worsening nuclear crisis will now be compared to the Chernobyl disaster in the former Soviet…

  • Rare Southern Atlantic sub-tropical storm forms

    NASA’s Aqua satellite spotted some strong convection in a recently formed low pressure area that strengthened into Sub-Tropical Storm Arani in the South Atlantic. Arani formed near the coast of Brazil and is now moving away from it. Tropical cyclones in the Atlantic

  • Arctic May Face Record Loss of Ozone This Spring

    Cold temperatures in the upper atmosphere and the lingering presence of ozone-destroying pollutants, called chlorofluorocarbons, have set the stage for what could be a record loss in protective ozone over the Arctic this spring.Unusually low temperatures in the