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Climate Extremes
CHICAGO, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- The Chicago area Thursday was hit with a second day of rain, high winds and Lake Michigan waves up to 25 feet, the National Weather Service said.
The wind and huge waves Wednesday forced closure of part of the popular lakeshor...
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Environment
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Winds gusting at more than 70 mph churned up a dust storm that roiled through the Texas South Plains during the Monday afternoon commute.
Dust kicked up by westerly breezes ahead of a strong cold front restricted visibility in L...
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Earth Changes
The volcanic eruption off the southern coast of the Canary Island of El Hierro appears to be subsiding and the evacuated residents of the southernmost village, La Restinga, were allowed to return to their homes on Sunday.
Since the eruption was confirm...
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Planet in Peril
The world's population will soon mark a momentous milestone. As of Oct. 31, according to the U.N. Population Fund, there will be 7 billion people sharing Earth's land and resources.
In Western Europe, Japan and Russia, it will be an ironic milestone a...
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Disasters
Thailand's rice bowl is now Thailand's nightmare.
The Chao Phraya River delta nourishes the nation's vast rice paddies. But Friday, the river and its many tributaries eyed the capital, Bangkok, like a ferocious animal stalking its prey.
Monsoonal r...
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Health
The bacterium blamed for the Black Death that wiped out more than a third of Europe's population within about five years of the 14th century looks an awful lot like the modern versions of the plague-causing bug, new genetic research indicates.
By takin...
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Newsflash
The ancient Mayans had contact with alien visitors who left behind evidence of their existence, according to a new Mexican documentary.
Sundance winner Juan Carlos Rulfo's Revelations of the Mayans 2012 and Beyond is currently in production for release...
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Prophecy & Predictions
There are fewer billboards this time, but the people who brought you the popular Rapture "scare" of May 2011 are back with a more subdued sequel titled "Wait, Wait, We Meant October."
You may recall the excitement earlier this year when Grand Rapids ...
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Newsflash
One of Canada’s Arctic ice shelves has virtually vanished, and several others have diminished significantly over the summer, according to a pair of the nation’s foremost experts on the subject.
Luke Copland, an associate professor in the University...
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Science
PHOENIX (AP) – A blinding dust storm rolled across the Arizona desert Tuesday, causing three pileups involving dozens of vehicles on a major interstate. One man was killed and at least 15 other people were injured, authorities said.
The first two cra...
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Politics/Economy
America clocked up a record in June, 2011. The drop in house prices meant that the cost of real estate has fallen by 33% since the peak – even bigger than the 31% slide seen when John Steinbeck was writing The Grapes of Wrath.
Unemployment has not r...
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Volcanic Alerts
UPDATE: October 4, 2011-Anak Krakatau, a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, erupted on Tuesday sending columns of ash and rock hurtling high into the air.
The rise in volcanic and earthquake activi...
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Survival/Preparedness
On Friday September 23rd, a large scale terrorism drill involving 81 agencies took place in Denver, Colorado.
The drill, made possible by a FEMA Homeland Security grant, was dubbed “Operation Mountain Guardian” and included military personal.
R...
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Solar & Cosmic Events
A pair of closely-spaced CMEs propelled by explosions of sunspot AR1302 on Sept. 24th are heading not-quite directly toward Earth. A significant glancing blow to our planet’s magnetic field is possible on Sept. 26th around 14:00 UT (+/- 7 hours). NOAA f...
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Weird & Unusual
A noise described by one resident as a “very loud kaboom” during Tropical Storm Lee has Greenwich Township residents and officials scratching their heads.
Greenwich Emergency Management Coordinator Gary Hill informed committee members Tuesday tha...
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Extreme Weather
The westside of Lake Michigan put on an impressive waterspout show on Saturday for residents of the Chicago and Milwaukee areas, who saw dozens of the funnel clouds and captured the outbreaks on photo and video.
Lake Michigan could churn up isolated w...
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Headline News
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Space Science+Astronomy
A new video from a NASA spacecraft takes viewers on a flyover journey of Vesta, the second-largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Scientists constructed the two-minute video from images taken by NASA's Dawn probe, which ha...
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Scientific Phenomena
BRISBANE 15 September 2011 . The following pictures taken by a source wishing to remain anonymous and posted on a world news magazine seem to include a large planet in the sky rotating around the Sun. The images are described as the setting of the Sun in...
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Conspiracy Theory
On the surface, Denver International Airport seems like any other modern airport. It's new, it's clean, it's big, and it's modern. But some investigators have found more to it than meets the eye. Much More
Claims abound that Denver International was d...