Wildfires have spread the past few days in California, and as of this morning one in Ventura County had spread to cover 8,000 acres. Over 2,000 homes are at risk as winds up to 35 miles per hour spread the fires quickly. At least 800 people have been evacuated from the area while firefighters battle [...]
The state of Pennsylvania has ruled out hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, drilling for natural gas as the cause of methane gas that has been detected in nearby resident’s groundwater. The town of Franklin Forks has been visited by celebrities and anti-fracking activists from around the world who rallied against the dangers that fracking poses to [...]
A number of agencies have released their hurricane forecasts for the 2013 season, and if they are all correct, we should see a more active period than we have seen in the past 20 year averages. Across the 5 different groups issuing forecasts, we see that all of them are predicting the number of named [...]
Iran has been hit for the second time in a week with a devastating earthquake, this one registered 7.8 on the Richter scale. The good and the bad of this quake is that it struck in a remote section of the country, in the southeast provinces of Sistan and Baluchestan. The quake rattled buildings from [...]
There were two major developments in Iceland this week regarding volcanic activity and the threat that this activity poses to Europe. First, and a bit of a volcano lessen, European researchers released a report this week that show
The Centers for Disease Control has put out a warning to hospitals to immediately act to curtail the spread of what they call a “nightmare bacteria.” The family of bacteria, known as Carbapenem-resistant (CRE) bacteria, are referred to as a “triple-threat” because of their resistance to last-ditch antibiotics, up to 50% mortality rate, and their [...]
Right now winter storm Saturn is hitting Chicago with up to 10 inches of snow. The storm dropped up to a foot of snow already in parts of North Dakota, Montana, Minnesota and Wisconsin and is now forecast to take a turn to the East. The storm will continue to drop snow in the region [...]
We’ve reported to you in the past that our Sun is approaching what is considered to be a 15 year peak in sunspot activity. Scientists have been focused on a sunspot area for the past 48 hours that has shocked them at how rapidly it has grown from a speck to a storm that is [...]
Those of you that have been with us for years know that we love “cool tools” for showing different sides of the economy. Today, we found another one. The University of Nebraska and the National Drought Mitigation Center have produced a new online tool that shows not only the drought, but the impact of the [...]
Valentine’s day will bring with it near miss between the earth and DA 14, an asteroid that is half the size of a football field and moving at 17,450 miles per hour. The asteroid, if it were to strike the earth, would immediately destroy everything in a 50 mile radius around the impact zone. Scientist [...]
