PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA — October 12, 2018  Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday with terrifying winds of 155 mph, splintering homes and submerging neighborhoods before continuing its destructive charge inland across the Southeast. It was the most powerful hurricane to hit the continental U.S. in nearly 50 years and at least 6 deaths have been reported during its passage, including four people killed in Florida, a man killed in his car in North Carolina, and an 11-year-old girl killed in Georgia. The death toll is likely to rise. In north Flori...

FLORIDA – October 10, 2018 Hurricane Michael intensified on Tuesday as it barreled towards the Florida coast, becoming a major category 3 storm capable of "devastating damage" which the state's governor warned could be the worst in decades. A category 3 storm with winds near 120mph, Michael is expected to strengthen further when it hits the Florida Panhandle, or Florida Big Bend, in the northwest, meteorologists warn. The storm was expected to make landfall on Wednesday afternoon, bringing hurricane force winds, a "life-threatening storm surge" and heavy rainfall, the M...

WYOMING – October 8, 2018 Yellowstone has, in recent years, attracted a lot of attention because a third of its territory is one of the largest supervolcanoes in the world. Experts have long tried to determine the date of a future eruption, because its scope may well be catastrophic for the entire planet. Remarkably, the longer experts engage in the study, the more mysteries the giant volcano presents.  But still, most geologists say that supervolcanoes tend to explode. Yellowstone is one of only 14 supervolcanoes in the world, and it is the only one on land. It is 2,00...

MIAMI, FLORIDA – October 8, 2018 Bad news for the residents along the northeastern and central U.S. Gulf Coast: Newly named Tropical Storm Michael could strengthen to a hurricane as it heads to the Florida Panhandle, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Sunday, advising northeastern Gulf Coast residents to monitor the storm’s progress in the week ahead. The Hurricane Center upgraded the tropical depression in the Caribbean to a named tropical storm, saying it had winds of up to 40 mph and could strengthen into a category 1 or 2 hurricane by Tuesday night or Wednesday,...

PHOENIX — October 2, 2018 After soaking northwestern Mexico with heavy rains as it neared the Baja California Peninsula, Tropical Storm Rosa is also expected to drench the U.S. Southwest. Rosa had winds of 50 mph and was approximately 90 miles west-southwest of Punta Eugenia, Mexico. The storm is moving northeast at 12 mph. Flash flood watches have been issued in parts of the region from Arizona to Utah; some residents have been filling sandbags in anticipation of heavy rainfall and potential flooding. The center of Rosa, which was a hurricane until late Sunday, was ex...

SILVER SPRING, MD – September 28, 2018 The catastrophic 2017 hurricane season – which included such monsters as Harvey, Irma and Maria – was fueled in part by unusually warm ocean water, a new study suggests. According the study, Atlantic hurricanes in recent years have become much more powerful and bring more abundant rainfall due to global warming.     Satellite data showed an average increase in wind speed in hurricanes by 21 kilometers more than 30 years ago. Every decade, this figure increased by 7 km. The wind speed is influenced by factors like sea surface tempe...

ALASKA – September 26, 2018 Recently, the Washington Post published an article about a well-known expert on Arctic ecology, Katey Walter Anthony, who has studied some 300 lakes across the tundras of the Arctic. Sitting on the mucky shore of her latest discovery, the Arctic expert said she’d never seen a lake quite like this one. Set against the austere peaks of the Western Brooks Range, the lake, about 20 football fields in size, looked as if it were boiling. Its waters hissed, bubbled and popped as a powerful greenhouse gas escaped from the lake bed. Some bubbles grew a...

WYOMING — September 25, 2018 Yellowstone has, in recent years, attracted a lot of attention because a third of its territory is one of the largest supervolcanoes in the world. Experts have long tried to determine the date of the future eruption, because its scope may well be catastrophic for the entire planet. Remarkably, the longer experts engage in the study, the more mysteries the giant volcano presents. At this time, contrary to scientists’ calculations, the geyser directly over the Yellowstone Caldera has woken up. It has only erupted four times in the previous 60 y...

WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA — September 18, 2018 While the bulk of the hurricane has left the Carolinas, the death toll keeps rising because of the rains, floods, and tornadoes. Now a post-tropical cyclone, Florence has killed 32 people, trapped hundreds more and cut off an entire city, officials said. Residential streets have turned into rivers, and freeways have morphed into waterways dotted with rescue boats. We've already reported about the first victims of the death hurricane, including two elderly people, a young mother with a child, several other people from North...