A Volcano in Sumatra erupted for the first time in over 400 years which prompted about 10,000 Indonesians to evacuate their homes. The Sumatra volcano was sending smoke and dust 1500 meter into the air and spewing out lava last Sunday. The volcano has been rumbling for several days as villagers panicked and eventually evacuated [...]
Tropical Storm Danielle has now turned into a hurricane this was announced by the National Hurricane Center. Tropical Storm Danielle which is now upgraded to a hurricane is the second Atlantic season, next to Hurricane Alex which was the first of the season. Hurricane Alex hit northeastern Mexico in late June and early July. Tropical [...]
Here is a photograph of Lucy which is a paralyzed Dog that is able to climb and took Mt. Washington with its fury, Lucy was able to conquer the project with just six hours. Here is a statement from Lucy’s owner which is Courtney Dunning of Peterborough, New Hampshire. “I think many people underestimate handicapped [...]
Thursday the Democratic House chairman subcommittee gives BP a below passing grade, in their government report it concludes that only 10 percent of oil from the Gulf of Mexico gusher was burned or skimmed. The chairman of a House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass announced that “It seems to me that [...]
This sinkhole appeared last sunday in a street intersection of Ciudad de Guatemala. Just looking at the photo gives me vertigo. A sinkhole is a natural depression caused by the removal of underground soil by water. Usually, it happens when the substrate is formed by limestone, carbonate rock, salt beds or any other rock that [...]
The Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) is a federal research facility in the United States. Plum Island Animal Disease Center is a facility that studies animal diseases and it is part of the DHS Directorate for Science and Technology. The picture above is an aerial view of the Plum Island, which sits off the [...]
Today News has it that the Oil Spill has now reached the Louisiana Wetlands. BP confirms that Wednesday Loisiana Wetlands has now covered in Oil spill that came from the leaked pipe in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil is now polluting the wetlands and its surroundings. In a lighter news the BP’S chief operating [...]
A group of international researchers was in Foja Mountain, Indonesia camping when a frog came hopping from nowhere and landed on a bag of rice in their campsite as herpetologist Paul Oliver was able to grab it. As Paul Oliver and his fellow researchers observed the little fellow the have found out that this frog [...]
On Sunday the Space shuttle Atlantis is expected to dock with the international space station after officials decided there will be no need to perform a maneuver to avoid a piece of debris. NASA’s Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas, had considered the maneuver to bypass the debris whose track would take it close to [...]
Various news sites reported that a 3-month old baby is already sitting, standing and walking alone without anyone accompanying her. The name of the baby has been withheld but we have learned that the baby was born January 31 in Chongqing, China. She is now exactly 101 days as of this writing. She weighed 2.75 [...]