June 28, 2008

The National Snow and Ice Data Center based in Boulder, Colorado said that there will be a 50% chance that the already thin ice on the North Pole will melt away this September as a result of the on-going global warming.
The center’s senior researcher Mark Serreze said that in September of 2007, ice on the [...]

June 19, 2008

Further rain has continued to fall across southern China after the country was devastated by floods earlier this week.
176 people have been confirmed to have died as a result of the flooding, and around 50 more are officially missing. Xinhua, the state news agency in China, has reported that the flooding in the Pearl River [...]

June 17, 2008

In the Midwestern United States , floodwaters contaminated with a toxic brew containing such ingredients as sewage, farm runoff, and petroleum are raising concerns over the availability of clean drinking water.
Flooding has been reported in the states of Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas and Indiana, with three deaths reported each in Iowa and Indiana, [...]

June 15, 2008

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake has hit the region of Tohoku, a rural area of Northern Japan, killing nine people, injuring over 200, triggering land slides with reports of a bridge destroyed by the quake, several press reports. Mainichi Shinbun reports many land slides happened in mountainous areas, cutting down roads and several neighborhoods are separated [...]

Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reports that parks in cities are up to 12 degrees centigrade cooler than commercial centers. A ten percent increase in green areas reduces the average city temperature by about 4 degrees; offsetting the UN climate committee’s extreme predictions of temperature increases over the next century.
Many scientists have criticized the UN predictions for [...]

June 3, 2008

-By Warner Todd Huston
Welcome to glorious international court of global warming, court with most power in all the land. Global warming Czar welcomes you and says that you are not to worry about silly things like “sovereignty” and “democracy.” Glorious leader has taken this burden from you for betterment of world. You act upset at [...]

June 2, 2008

The eruption of Cerro Azul on Isabela Island, the main island in the Galápagos of Ecuador, is not directly threatening either the famous Galápagos Tortoises or the human population of the island, unlike in the 1998 eruption.
The latest eruption began Thursday, 29 May, and includes lava flows. Reuters reports that after Galápagos Park rangers flew [...]

June 1, 2008

The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season got off to an early start today when a tropical storm formed off the coast of Belize, one day before the season officially begins.
Tropical Storm Arthur formed Saturday afternoon and quickly made landfall at the Yucatan Peninsula, near the border between Belize and Mexico. Both countries issued a tropical storm [...]

May 24, 2008

The end of civilization as we know it, is not at hand. Dire warnings on climate change issued by Al Gore, based on an extreme set of computer predictions, are a dead issue. So is the credibility of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); the UN committee that tried to bring credibility to the [...]

May 23, 2008

According to a study performed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, the level of acid in the world’s oceans is rising, decades before scientists expected the levels to rise.
The study was performed on the coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean from Baja California, Mexico to Vancouver, British Columbia, where [...]

A tornado that has caused 28 miles (45 km) of destruction throughout Weld County, Colorado, has killed one and injured 100. The man killed was inside a vehicle that was destroyed in the storm, west of Greeley, which is about 60 miles (97 km) north of Denver.
A state trooper says that multiple car accidents occurred [...]

May 14, 2008

Officials say the death toll in the recent earthquake in China has reached almost 15,000. The news comes as 2,000 of the nation’s troops were dispatched to the Zipingku Dam to repair “extremely dangerous” cracks in the structure, which is upriver from Dujiangyan City, already severely hit by the disaster.
It is feared the toll will [...]

May 12, 2008

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) a magnitude 7.8 earthquake has struck eastern Sichuan Province in China. The USGS recorded the quake at 6:28:00 UTC. Officials say that at least 8,500 may have been killed and local reports indicate over 10,000 injured.
At least 107 people, some of them school children, were killed when [...]

May 5, 2008

At least 4,000 people have been reported dead after a tropical cyclone officially named “Nargis” struck Burma, which is also known as Myanmar. As a result it has been declared by the Burmese government that five states are currently disaster areas.
A diplomat in the area spoke to the Reuters news agency, giving them a description [...]

April 19, 2008

A group of scientists have challenged the IPCC to admit that there is no evidence that human activity drives climate change. Specifically, they sent a letter this month to the Chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change asking those associated with the panel to:

retract support from the current IPCC position and admit that [...]

April 18, 2008

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), a magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck parts of Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky in the United States on Friday.
The USGS states that the quake hit at 4:37 a.m. (central time) approximately 9 kilometers (6 miles) northwest of Mount Carmel and had a depth of just over three miles. It [...]

April 9, 2008

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park remains closed today after high levels of Sulfur Dioxide vented from Kilauea. Continuing southeastern winds will exist through most of the day, causing much of the contamination to exist elsewhere on the Big Island.
In addition to the park, the Volcano House hotel and Kilauea Military Camp remain evacuated. Volcano Charter School [...]

March 21, 2008

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 has struck the Xinjiang region of China. The Earthquake Administration of China has reported the quake to be a 7.3 magnitude.
The quake struck at 6:33 a.m. (local time) and its epicenter was located 228 kilometers (142 miles) southeast of [...]

March 15, 2008

A large storm that has spawned a tornado has hit the city of Atlanta, Georgia, causing extensive damage through the city.
The National Weather Service confirmed Saturday morning that it was a tornado that struck the city. After reviewing the aftermath of the storm, they classified it as an F2 tornado on the Fujita scale. Atlanta [...]

March 10, 2008

The southern United Kingdom has experienced heavy rains and strong winds, with approximately 10,000 homes now without power. In addition to damage to property, many journeys have been disrupted, as a result of canceled flights, in addition to closed roads and rail tracks.
The UK Met Office described the current conditions by saying that “the Met [...]