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Rare Tornado Hits New York City
A tornado has hit New York City and caused some damages, the National Weather Service says. The powerful twister, which originated at sea, disrupted power lines and uprooted several trees in a beachfront area of New York.
Videos made by eyewitnesses showed a swirling air column moving towards the shore.
Lizann Maher, a worker at Kennedy’s Restaurant at the edge of Jamaica Bay told AP that...
Nicaragua Volcano Erups, Thousands Evacuated
The Nicaraguan government plans on evacuating some 3,000 people from areas around Nicaragua’s San Cristobal volcano as it spewed out a column of ash and gas 5 km high into the air.
Three powerful explosions emitting from the volcano were heard by residents in nearby villages on Saturday.
“This activity could affect some 500 families totaling 3,000 people, so we decided to evacuate them,”...
Japan Volcano To Erupt Soon And Cause $31 Billion In Damages
Japanese scientists predict Mt. Fuji will blow due to new tectonic pressures that are higher than when the volcano last erupted more than 300 years ago. Estimates say the eruption will affect more than 400,000 people and cost over $30 billion.
The National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention has issued a warning that Japan’s 9.0 magnitude undersea quake last year, plus an...
Hunger Chaos Nears As World Suffers From Historic Drought
A new shocking report reveals that the world could soon experience a severe food crisis as historic drought affects almost the entire world. US experts have warned that America’s 2012 drought may have devastating consequences, worse than the 2008 global food crisis when the prices soared so high that they triggered riots and unrest to parts of Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America.
The...
Russia Attacks Clouds to Clear Sky for City Day Celebration
In an effort to deter possible “bad weather” the Russian capital city of Moscow cleared the skies of any clouds that may possibly have gotten in the way of their Den’ Goroda (or City Day) festivities.
According to Pravda, the city carried out an airborne “attack” on bothersome clouds with 10 aircraft specially equipped to deliver CO2 (in the form of dry ice), liquid nitrogen and a powdered...
US insurance firms unlikely to cover $1 billion in home damage after record-breaking drought
Thousands of US homes are in critical disrepair as the country continues to suffer from this summer’s record-breaking drought. And the damages are unlikely to be paid by insurance companies.
As moisture is sucked away from the ground, houses are shifting, cracking and racking up huge repair bills for surprised homeowners – bills that insurance companies rarely ever cover.
Some repairs have topped...
NASA says Arctic sea ice is at record low
Arctic sea ice reaches the lowest level ever recorded, NASA says.
The sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has melted to the lowest level ever recorded since it was first measured in 1979, the NASA space agency says.
According to NASA, the sea ice fell to 4.9 million square kilometers as it was observed on Sunday, which is about 80,000 square kilometers less than the earlier record charted on September 18,...
Geoengineering Causing Climate Change
James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and eco-fascist, predicts that the warming of the Earth is happening and his “projections about increasing global temperature have been proved true. But I failed to fully explore how quickly that average rise would drive an increase in extreme weather.”
The alarmist scientists claim that the global temperature has risen an...
Asian nations more exposed to natural disaster risk
A Japanese couple offer prayers for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami at Kesennuma city in Miyagi prefecture on March 11, 2012.
A new study by Maplecroft risk analysis firm says emerging Asian economies face the greatest financial risk from natural disasters.
The study suggests that the limited ability of some Asian states has left them exposed to “major destructive natural hazards, such...
Over-Population Threatens Water Resources
A study published by McGill University in Montreal and Utrecht University in the Netherlands, analyzed data from global ground water use against computer generated models of underwater aquifers and concluded that the “groundwater footprint” of reliable resources above ground is 3.5 times larger than the known aquifers.
UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Council of the International Hydrological Program...
Spain forest fire leaves two dead
Wildfire flames are seen near Altemporada on July 22, 2012. The wind-fueled wildfire raged out of control in northeastern Spain.
While raging wildfire in Spain’s Canary Islands of La Gomera has forced hundreds of residents to leave their homes, a separate forest fire leaves two people dead in the east of the country.
According to authorities, at least one firefighter and an environmental agent lost...
USDA revises crop estimates dramatically lower
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) gave its assessment of the historic drought Friday, forecasting national corn production at 10.8 billion bushels, down 13% from 2011 and the lowest production since 2006.
The report is the USDA’s first official assessment of the impact of the drought that has hit the Corn Belt and is considered to be the worst since 1956.
The government report said corn...
US to clean up Agent Orange in Vietnam
The Vietnam War ended over 35 years ago, but not before some 1 million people died. And the toxic chemical Agent Orange, used by US forces to burn away parts of the jungle, still lingers in the area, poisoning the environment and human bodies.
Only now, 51 years after the first spraying, is Washington acknowledging the devastation it caused with Agent Orange to Vietnam’s ecosystem and the health...
Obama Greenies to Cause Power Blackouts and Rate Hikes
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UN team visits flood hit areas in North Korea, offering help
This picture, taken by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on July 30, 2012 shows road and houses being flooded at Anju city in South Phongan province, caused by typhoon and downpour.
The UN has sent a team to North Korea for expressing their solidarity with the government and people in the wake of the recent flood, a UN official says.
The UN team was headed “to see what help...