Climatic and Environmental Convulsions
Experts: Move to protect nuke plants from solar flare damage
03/06/2011 16:56
The Rebuplic:
WASHINGTON - It has happened before and it will happen again: an Earth-bound electromagnetic pulse from the sun that disrupts the power grid by burning out high-voltage transformers.
It happened in March 1989 at the Hydro-Quebec system in Canada, tripping transmission lines,...
Solar Flare Eruption Video Recorded By NASA
03/06/2011 16:47
Huffington Post:
A large and stunning solar flare was captured on camera by NASA this past week. According to the BBC, the eruption lasted about 90 minutes, and was the latest in a series of sunstorms.
NASA caught the flare in extreme ultraviolet light, using high definition and a cadence...
Record number of asteroids spotted
02/26/2011 11:48
From UPI:
HONOLULU, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Astronomers using a telescope on the island of Maui in Hawaii said they discovered 19 near-Earth asteroids Jan. 29, the most ever found in a single night.
Scientists at the Pan-STARRS PS1 telescope on Haleakala, Maui, said the record demonstration of the...
Colossal volcano eruption sends ash plume 2 miles high in Philippines
02/23/2011 09:59
A volcanic eruption in the eastern Philippines has sent clouds of ash almost three kilometres high - and forced thousands of people to flee. Witnesses describe the ground shaking before a tremendous…
Biggest Solar Flare In Years Headed For Earth
02/17/2011 19:35
From CBS Los Angeles and @mijadedios:
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — The sun is making a comeback.
OK, so it never really went away, but after years of relative quiet on our nearest star, activity has picked up as of late, resulting in a solar flare that marks the strongest since 2006.
Bob...
Russian volcano erupts sending ash four kilometres high
02/08/2011 05:27
From BBC:
A volcano in Russia has begun erupting, spurting ash up to four kilometres into the sky.
Aircraft have been warned against flying in the area around the Kizimen volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula because of the threat posed to engines by the particles of volcanic ash.
Simon McCoy...
Easter Sunday asteroid on path toward Earth
02/02/2011 18:43
From WND:
Forget about President Obama's State of the Union Address, writes Ray Villard, news director for the Hubble Space Telescope, America's real "Sputnik moment" should be attempting to deflect an asteroid currently hurtling toward Earth.
Earlier this year, Russian scientist Leonid Sokolov of...
Japanese volcano still erupting, 1,000 residents urged to evacuate as danger zone widens
01/31/2011 20:31
From Winnepeg Free Press:
TOKYO - Officials urged more than 1,000 residents to seek safer ground on Monday and expanded a no-access zone around a volcano that has exploded back to life in southern Japan.
The 4,662-foot (1,421-meter) Shinmoedake volcano erupted last week for the first time...
Is the world's largest super-volcano set to erupt, wiping out two-thirds of the U.S.?
01/30/2011 07:43
From DailyMail and @Endtimesnews:
The super-volcano beneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming has been rising at a record rate since 2004
It would explode with a force a thousand times more powerful than the Mount St Helens eruption in 1980.
Spewing lava far into the sky, a cloud of...
Japan on alert after volcano's biggest eruption in 50 years
01/28/2011 19:34
From Daily Mail:
A one-mile cordon has been established around a volcano on Mount Kirishima after it erupted scattering rocks and ash across southern Japan and sending smoke billowing 5,000ft into the air.
The Meteorological Agency raised the volcanic alert to level 3 as ash today...
3-D Image of Joplin's 2011-05-22 Tornado
