Officials Suggest 'Safe Room' To Avoid Vog Dangers from Kilauea Volcano

"Officials from the Big Island reported to state lawmakers that they suggest residents prepare "safe rooms" regarding the ongoing eruption of dangerous gases from Kilauea Volcano. "We have to do something on an...

Sarah Palin's Style Sparks Buying Frenzy

The Sarah Palin Collection for F/W 08: guns, vikings, bearskins, and wolf limbs? No wonder her style is so inspirational. "Fashion companies have discovered a lucrative new marketing vehicle: Sarah Palin. Since John...

Cattle and Deer May Sense Earth's Magnetic Field

"Images from Google Earth have confirmed that cattle tend to align their bodies in a north-south direction. Wild deer also display this behaviour - a phenomenon that has apparently gone unnoticed by herdsmen...

The Existence of Monster Waves

" Understanding how such monstrous waves form could lead to ways to predict when they might emerge or, potentially, even drive them at enemy vessels, scientists added. For centuries these killer waves had been...

Big Pharma pushes for patents of pot-based pills

I found this statistic surprising: in 1994 there were only two pot-based pharmaceutical drugs in development in the US, while in 2004 there were 27. That's a big leap, one that could potentially hold some clout in...

Warming world sends plants uphill

"Climate change has resulted in many plant species moving an average of 29 metres uphill every decade. Climate change has caused plants to seek cooler conditions at higher altitudes. Smaller species such as...

Wildfires Rage in California

"Firefighters from neighboring states arrived to help Monday after an "unprecedented" lightning storm sparked more than 800 wildfires, from Big Sur to wine country to Humboldt County. Along the coast in the Los...

Sharks Are Becoming Human Predators

"Scientists fear packs of bull sharks are now ACTIVELY HUNTING HUMANS FOR THE FIRST TIME after a series of horrifying attacks in the waters off a popular resort in Mexico."Story includes videos about recent attacks

US Has No Remaining Grain Reserves

"Our concern is that the U.S. has nothing else in our emergency food pantry. There is no cheese, no butter, no dry milk powder, no grains or anything else left in reserve."

Videos:Strange Cloud Formations Linked to Quakes

"CAN unusual clouds signal the possibility of an impending earthquake? That's the question being asked following the discovery of distinctive cloud formations above an active fault in Iran before each of two large...

Drone Planes to Monitor the Earth's Atmosphere

"As the hurricane season takes off in the US so too will drone planes which will fly into the eye of the storms. It is part of an ongoing project funded by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...

Videos on Demand: Mass Evacuation Underway in China

"A total of 158,000 people (in about 30 towns) have now been evacuated from potentially vulnerable areas downstream from Tangjiashan lake. The lake's water level is rising by more than one metre pre day. It now...

Climate Change Is Inevitable

" The awful truth is that some amount of climate change is a foregone conclusionEven if the US, Europe, and Japan turned off every power plant and mothballed every car today, atmospheric CO2 would still climb...

Flight Of The Conchords Climb the Charts

UPDATE | April 30 - Conchords Climb the ChartsAnd just like that, the Conchord kids have become an American sensation — though it is strange to see that chart-topping albums barely sell 50,000 copies."A pair of...

Food and Gas Prices Creating a 'global crisis'

"Concerns about food security mounted this week as rice prices hit records in Asia and the United States warned that staples for the world's hungry were getting much more expensive. The cost of feeding the ...

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