Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. - Tsunami-like waves created by an earthquake may have triggered the world's largest known hydrothermal explosion some 13,000 years ago, a federal scientist says.
Denver, Colorado - Strands of distressed, red pine trees across northern Colorado and the Front Range are a visible testament to the bark beetle infestation that officials said will kill most of the state's lodgepole pine trees within 5 years.
Cleveland, Ohio -- Experts say Ohio seems to be increasingly prone to earthquakes.
A 3.1 magnitude quake hit Tuesday and there have been 25 earthquakes of magnitude 2.0 or higher over the past two years. That's equal to the number the five years before that.
Comment: Increased frequency of earthquakes, and only the blandest of explanations from the "experts".
"Nothing to see here! Move along! Earthquakes are 3 times more common now because of something that happened 800 million years ago."
More than 100 tons of petrol and kerosene spilled into a Vietnamese waterway after two vessels collided last week, an official said Saturday, in the latest case of growing industrial pollution.
About 40,000 liters of petrol, 70,000 liters of kerosene, and a load of construction material contaminated the Vam Co Dong river south of Ho Chi Minh City after the accident, a local official said.
An intellectual war of words has broken out between two of the world's leading evolutionists. Oxford University's Richard Dawkins and Harvard's Edward Wilson have gone head to head over the evolution of altruism in the animal kingdom, and whether it can have come about as a result of something called group selection.
Indiana, USA -- Flooded rivers began receding Wednesday across a swath of northern Indiana where three people drowned as melting snow and heavy rain swelled rivers during an unusual January warm streak.
Two of the victims were young children whose mother wasn't able to get them out of an SUV submerged in floodwaters.
Five deaths were blamed on flooding and tornadoes across the Midwest on Tuesday, the second day of severe weather fueled by unseasonable temperatures.
A driver had a lucky escape in Broughshane, County Antrim when a tree fell on his vehicle as high winds swept across Northern Ireland. Photograph: Paul Faith/PA
Roads have been blocked by falling trees, ferries cancelled, bridges closed and thousands of people left without power as winds of almost 80mph buffeted Scotland and Northern Ireland today.
Comment: Increased frequency of earthquakes, and only the blandest of explanations from the "experts".
"Nothing to see here! Move along! Earthquakes are 3 times more common now because of something that happened 800 million years ago."
Sheesh!