Climatic and Environmental Convulsions
Massive red tide encroaching on South Florida coast
08/09/2014 21:29
A toxic red tide continues to bloom and expand in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico as it nears the coast of South Florida. Officials say the maroon-tinged algae bloom is one of the largest Florida's waters have seen in a decade.
Researchers with the Florida Wildlife and Conservation...
4.5-magnitude quake hits as residents prepare for 1st hurricane in 22 years
08/08/2014 23:58
A 4.5-magnitude earthquake struck the big island of Hawaii early Thursday as residents were preparing for the first of two hurricanes threatening to make landfall.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported the quake struck at 6:24 a.m. local time about 7 miles west-northwest of Waimea at a depth of 9.7...
California drought: 'May have to migrate people'
08/01/2014 07:24
It's going from worse to worst each week in California.
Suffering in its third year of drought, more than 58 percent of the state is currently in "exceptional drought" stage, according to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor map. That marks a huge jump from just seven days ago, when about 36 percent of...
Earth May Be in Early Days of 6th Mass Extinction
07/28/2014 21:59
Earth may be in the early stages of a sixth mass extinction, an international team of scientists says.
Animals and plants are threatened. More than 320 land vertebrates have gone extinct since 1500, the researchers said. The world's remaining animals with backbones are 25 percent less...
Northern California neighborhoods inundated by rattlesnakes due to drought
07/27/2014 21:08
Rattlesnakes are moving closer to homes in Northern California, and one expert thinks the state’s drought is to blame, CBS Sacramento reports. Len Ramirez says this is one of the busiest years his rattlesnake removal business has seen in nearly three decades. And the year is only halfway done....
Colorado River Groundwater Disappearing at 'Shocking' Rate
07/26/2014 21:56
As the Southwest's drought has worsened in the last decade, making surface water scarce, millions of people are drawing more heavily on underground water supplies. The water is coming out faster than it's being replenished, a new study finds.
Between December 2004 and November 2013, more...
River In China Mysteriously Turns Bloody Red Overnight
07/26/2014 21:42
The water in a river in Xinmeizhou village in eastern China's Zhejiang province turned red overnight, baffling locals, July 25, 2014.
Newscom
A waterway in eastern China has mysteriously turned a blood red color.
Residents in Zhejiang province said the river looked normal at 5 a.m. Beijing time on...
Parched Texas town turns to sewage water to keep city flush with water
07/23/2014 07:28
When the going got tough due one of with worst droughts in a century, the parched Texas city of Wichita Falls got going with its program to recycle sewage water for drinking.
The city this month opened the spigots on a $13 million system that mixes 5 million gallons a day of treated waste water...
Earth's Magnetic Field Is Weakening 10 Times Faster Now
07/15/2014 19:46
Earth's magnetic field, which protects the planet from huge blasts of deadly solar radiation, has been weakening over the past six months, according to data collected by a European Space Agency (ESA) satellite array called Swarm.
The biggest weak spots in the magnetic field — which extends 370,000...
Earth’s weakening magnetic field
07/09/2014 20:39
Earth’s magnetic field is a protective shield for our planet from cosmic radiation, but it’s also somewhat of a mystery – scientists aren’t sure why it moves and changes in intensity. And now the first set of high-resolution results from Esa’s three-satellite Swarm constellation reveal that...
3-D Image of Joplin's 2011-05-22 Tornado
