Huge Trove of Dinosaur Footprints Discovered in Scotland
Hundreds of tracks discovered along Scotland’s coast show that huge, long-necked dinosaurs once trod there.
Earth’s Riverine Bloodstream
In a sense, rivers are like airport terminals connecting air, mountains, rocks, plants, soil, and the ocean. And like travelers in airports, the materials transported by rivers can tell stories of where they’ve been, what’s happened to them, and where they’re going.
Video: The Moment an Earthquake Destroys One of the World’s Most Beautiful Beaches
The moment that one of the world’s most beautiful beaches was destroyed this week was caught on camera. An earthquake, which was marked as 6.1 ‘strong’ on the Richter Scale, brought surrounding cliffs down onto the Egremni Beach in Lefkada, Greece.
El Niño on Track to be Among Worst Ever, But World Better Prepared For Fallout – UN
The current El Niño, a weather pattern of devastating droughts and catastrophic floods that can affect tens of millions of people around the globe, is expected to strengthen further by year’s end, on track to be one of the three strongest in 65 years, according to the latest update from the United Nations weather agency.
Here’s How El Nino is Going to Wreck Your Life, Southern California
El Niño, a warming of the Pacific Ocean, is causing the jet stream to direct storms into Southern California. El Niño storms are unpredictable. That can mean lightning strikes and high tides in the beach areas, flash floods in the high desert and mud flows in communities down stream of burn areas.
Seaweed Can Help Feed the World. But will We Eat It?
Planet-wise, seaweed appears as a clear win. How about human-wise? Should we be eating more seaweed?
Shipwrecks Posing Threat to US Waters Hold Many Unknowns
Dozens of shipwrecks scattered along America’s coasts are thought to be holding oil and certainly will start leaking someday as corrosion eats away at their tanks.
Flowers Bloom in the Atacama Desert – in Pictures
The Atacama desert, covering a 600-mile (1,000 km) strip of land on the Pacific coast west of the Andes mountains, is experiencing a rare springtime bloom of flowers after El Niño brought the heaviest rainfall in two decades earlier this year. The desert is usually one of the driest places on Earth.
22 Ancient Shipwrecks Discovered Near Greek Island
Shipwrecks were the stuff of lore around the craggy coasts of Fourni, a Greek archipelago close to Turkey in the eastern Aegean Sea. But last month, a group of marine archaeologists finally investigated the waters, and their wealth of findings far exceeded expectations.