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The Bloop is the name given to an ultra-low frequency and extremely powerful underwater sound detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 1997. The source of the sound remains unknown. The sound, traced to somewhere around 50° S 100° W, was detected several...

Ran across this posting thought I'd share.Very scary news indeed, the Sun has been acting and reacting unusually this year. I've also seen the comet or object that crashed into the sun. Heaven help us if the X flare happens. There are those who believe that the sun is has an affect with...

By Dave Masko on 2012-02-08 BRAY’S POINT, Ore. – They can’t be moved; even when yanked by a four-wheel drive truck pulling on heavy chains tied around these humming metal boxes that are still appearing as of Feb. 8 up and down West Coast beaches. As of late afternoon Feb. 8, Bill...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the soggy East tries to dry out from flooding and Texas prays for rain that doesn't come, you might ask: Isn't there some way to ship all that water from here to there? It's an idea that has tempted some, but reality gets in the way. A Texas oilman once envisioned long...

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MIAMI (Reuters) - Nature has not stinted in unleashing deadly weather on the United States this year and leaders should recognize the need for good forecasting services when they wield the cost-cutting knife, the director of the National Weather Service said on Thursday. Jack Hayes used the...

A strange proton flux was observed today, as you can see here: SIDC has issued this ALERT: Issued: 2011 Mar 21 0957 UTC The proton flux measured by GOES13 increased this morning. The storm threshold is not reached. We don't expect the threshold to be passed. A back sided plasma cloud came...

March 16, 2011: Mark your calendar. On March 19th, a full Moon of rare size and beauty will rise in the east at sunset. It's a super "perigee moon"--the biggest in almost 20 years. "The last full Moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March of 1993," says Geoff Chester of the US Naval...

According to Dr. Jeff Masters (from Weather Underground), "Radiation from Japan's stricken ***ushima Daiichi nuclear plant has been detected 100 miles to the northeast, over the Pacific Ocean, by the U.S. military. Westerly to southwesterly winds have predominated over Japan the past few days...

The Threat is Seriously, Experts Warn Space weather could pose serious problems here on Earth in the coming years, the chief of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Saturday (Feb. 19). A severe solar storm has the potential to take down telecommunications and power...

Space weather could pose serious problems here on Earth in the coming years, the chief of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Saturday (Feb. 19). A severe solar storm has the potential to take down telecommunications and power grids, and the country needs to work on...

February 4th, 2011 08:15 AM 'At first glance it looks like a graphic from a Discovery Channel programme about a distant ice age. But this astonishing picture shows the world as it is today - with half the Northern Hemisphere covered with snow and ice. The image was released by the National...

Researchers have a new tactic to save endangered whales tangled in fishing line: Get them to calm down with sedatives shot from a dart gun so they can pull closer and cut the potentially fatal gear away. The method was used Jan. 15 off the Florida coast to free a young North Atlantic right...

Conservation groups are seeking Endangered Species Act protection for chinook salmon in the Klamath River running from Southern Oregon across Northern California. The petition filed Thursday with the NOAA Fisheries Service says spring chinook that once were the most prized and numerous of the...

As rancorous debate rages over the effects of the Obama administration's cancellation of the Constellation program, there is no shortage of plans to attempt to—once again—develop a coherent American space policy. Two interesting plans have been developed by two very different space visionaries...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – As the ocean floor plunges off southwestern Puerto Rico, it reveals coral reefs dotted with bright-blue sea squirts and a multitude of other organisms whose existence has given hope to scientists who strive to save the island's threatened ecosystems. The organisms are an...

A new discovery of thriving coral reefs off the coast of Puerto Rico may offer hope for other shallower reefs. Scuba diving scientists discovered sprawling and diverse coral reefs at 100 to 500 feet (30 to 150 meters) below the ocean surface within a 12-mile (19-kilometer) span off the...

Just as the East Coast finished digging itself out from underneath Snowpocalypse: Part II, meteorologists for AccuWeather.com announced that this January will be the coldest since 1985. With another big snowstorm bearing down on the Northeast this weekend, climate change naysayers are once again...

Anthony Watts Watts Up With That? Jan 1, 2011 From the NOAA National Weather Service Office in Miami comes this year end report: 2010 South Florida Weather Year in Review Coldest December on Record Concludes Year of Extremes December 30th, 2010: Temperature and precipitation extremes marked...

Steve McIntyre CLimate Audit Tuesday, December 28, 2010 I don’t feel hugely energetic right now in terms of writing anything very complicated. As a simple exercise, I decided to quickly revisit the everchanging Hansen adjustments, a topic commented on acidly by E.M. Smith (Chiefio) in many...