Texas storm Harvey breaks historic rainfall record
Hurricane Harvey has set what forecasters believe is a new rainfall record for the continental United States, officials said Tuesday.
View ArticleNASA sees 14th eastern Pacific Ocean potential tropical cyclone
Potential tropical cyclone 14E of the Eastern Pacific Ocean hurricane season appeared to be coming together off the southwestern coast of Mexico. NASA's Aqua satellite captured temperature data on the...
View Article'No way to prevent' explosion at Texas chemical plant
The operators of a flooded chemical plant outside Houston warned Wednesday they are dealing with a "critical issue" triggered by Harvey's torrential rains and have no means to prevent a possible...
View ArticleAfter Harvey, misery piles on for Texas plant evacuees
First their neighborhood was deluged by Harvey's torrential rains. Then, officers turned up at the door with more bad news: there is a risk of a chemical blast at a nearby plant and it's time to evacuate.
View ArticleFresh landslides in Swiss Alps force more evacuations
New landslides have forced more evacuations from a valley in the Swiss Alps where eight hikers were buried in a barrage of boulders and mud a week ago, authorities said Friday.
View ArticleHurricane Irma of 'unprecedented intensity' in the Atlantic
Hurricane Irma is of "unprecedented intensity" in the Atlantic, meteorologists said Wednesday, as they advised residents of tiny Caribbean islands to take shelter as the massive storm approached.
View ArticleNASA finds Jose strengthening into a hurricane
The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite has been providing rainfall rates and cloud heights in tropical cyclones, and recently found towering thunderstorms that indicated...
View ArticleGeophysicist: Weight of Harvey rains caused Houston to sink
A California geophysicist says the sheer weight of the torrential rains brought by Harvey has caused Houston to sink by 2 centimeters.
View ArticleUnderstanding ground conditions before storms helps scientists predict heavy...
As heavy flooding events, including those in Houston, Texas, and Mumbai, India, continue, research teams from Purdue University and India have been working on improving the models that can help predict...
View ArticleTyphoon Doksuri batters central Vietnam, killing 4
Typhoon Doksuri slammed into central Vietnam on Friday, killing four people and injuring 10 others as heavy rains and strong winds ripped off roofs and knocked over many electricity poles.
View ArticleResearchers find there are at least 14,003 plant types in Amazon basin
(Phys.org)—A large team of researchers from Brazil, the U.K., Columbia and Spain has found that scientists have identified 14,003 types of plants growing in a major part of the Amazon rain forest. In...
View ArticleNASA tracking Hurricane Maria on Bahamas approach
NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided a look at Maria's temperatures to find the strongest sides of the storm, while NOAA's GOES satellite revealed the extent of the storm in a visible image as it...
View ArticleExperiment in a box suggests a few cold falling rain drops could lead to a...
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from Germany, France and the U.S. has found a possible explanation for the onset of sudden rainstorms. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters,...
View ArticleAmbae volcano's crater lakes make it a serious threat to Vanuatu
If you turned on the television this week, you may have seen coverage of the potentially imminent eruption of Mount Agung volcano in Bali.
View ArticleCentral Indian floods have tripled: study
Violent floods in central India have tripled since 1950, according to researchers who warned Tuesday of worse to come while offering hope for predicting them better in future.
View ArticlePuerto Rico's hurricane-wracked environment faces long recovery
Bees fly around, disoriented, searching for flowers to pollinate. The trees have no leaves and once-lush mountains are a mass of dry branches.
View ArticleHow global warming is drying up the North American monsoon
Researchers have struggled to accurately model the changes to the abundant summer rains that sweep across the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, known to scientists as the "North...
View ArticleIreland closes schools as rare hurricane approaches
Ireland has ordered all schools to close Monday as the country braces for an "unprecedented storm" with the arrival of Ophelia, the largest hurricane ever recorded so far east in the Atlantic Ocean.
View ArticleHow bees find their way home
How can a bee fly straight home in the middle of the night after a complicated route through thick vegetation in search of food? For the first time, researchers have been able to show what happens in...
View ArticleImage: Sagaing Division in northwest Myanmar
The Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite brings us over part of the Sagaing Division in northwest Myanmar, and along the border with India.
View ArticleNASA views severe rain storms over western Saudi Arabia
As intense rain storms moved into Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Nov. 21, NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement Mission or GPM core satellite analyzed the severe storms.
View ArticleSatellite shows storms on both US coasts for Thanksgiving travelers
Satellites are keeping an eye on the U.S. and NOAA's GOES East satellite showed two storm systems for pre-Thanksgiving travelers on Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017. One system was exiting the northeastern...
View ArticleInformation extraction and visualization from Twitter considering spatial...
Social media is expected to be a good source of data for analyzing human behavior and statuses of locations. It is possible to provide location-based information simply by geospatially filtering...
View ArticleDozens still unaccounted for in California mudslides
Authorities in southern California said Thursday that dozens of residents were still unaccounted for after powerful mudslides that have killed 17 people, including four children, and destroyed homes in...
View ArticleDeath toll from California mudslides rises to 18
Authorities in southern California said Friday they had discovered the body of an elderly man killed by mudslides that battered the region earlier this week, lifting the overall death toll to 18.
View ArticleFederal report shows punch of last year's Hurricane Harvey
The official numbers for last year's Hurricane Harvey are in, and they go beyond the 68 dead and $125 billion in damage.
View ArticleDeadly mudflows threaten residents near erupting Philippine volcano
Millions of tonnes of ash and rock from an erupting Philippine volcano could bury nearby communities due to heavy rain, authorities said Saturday, as tens of thousands flee over fears of a deadly...
View ArticleNASA finds Extra-Tropical Cyclone Fehi sheared
Tropical Cyclone Fehi has transitioned into an extra-tropical cyclone was wind shear pushed the bulk of clouds and thunderstorms south of its center. NASA's Terra satellite and the NASA and Japan...
View ArticleCalifornia gauges snowpack amid dry winter
Amid record-setting heat in the state's south, California's water managers will measure the Sierra Nevada snowpack, which supplies water to millions.
View ArticleNASA measured rainfall from Fehi's remnants in New Zealand
The remnants of Tropical Cyclone Fehi brought rain to New Zealand before it fizzled out. NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's GPM core satellite provided a look at the rainfall from its...
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