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Drowning Island Nations Plead for Help

July 23, 2001
The tiny South Pacific nation of Tuvalu faces being submerged by rising sea levels. The Tuvaluan Government is considering abandoning the islands its people have lived on for thousands of years, believing the nation will be uninhabitable within decades. They... continued

Superstorms May Hit U.S.

July 23, 2001
A shift in the climate has taken place that has brought about an increase in major hurricanes. The period of heightened activity could last for decades, and unleash a catastrophic storm anywhere along the U.S. coast from Texas to Maine.... continued

Earth Heating Up Much Faster than Expected

July 23, 2001
There's a 90 percent chance Earth?s temperature will climb between 3 and 9 degrees this century, an international team of scientists reported today. The most likely scenario, according to the European and American scientists, is a rise of between 4... continued

USGS Earthquake Center Offline

July 22, 2001
The National Earthquake Reporting Center of the US Geologic Survey has been offline and its information unavailable since July 18. In addition, the IRIS seismic monitor at the University of Washington is not providing data underneath its map, although the... continued

Proof that City Living Drives You Nuts

July 21, 2001
New research suggests that people living in large cities are more likely than small-town residents to exhibit psychotic-like symptoms such as paranoia and delusions. In a study of more than 7,000 people in the Netherlands, investigators found that both full-blown... continued

Mystery of the Eltanin Antenna

July 21, 2001
Between 1962 and 1979 the NSF Polar Research Vessel Eltanin surveyed Antarctic waters, studying the ocean and ocean bottom. In 1964, the ship photographed an unusual object at a depth of 13,500 feet. At the time, there was no submarine... continued

Chaos Hot Spots

July 20, 2001
The key to improving weather forecasts may lie in the discovery of atmospheric ?hot spots?-- regions in which small changes in conditions magnify quickly into large changes in the weather. Researchers from the University of Maryland have shown that not... continued

New Navy Sonar Could Be the End of Whales

July 20, 2001
For the last several years the U.S. Navy has been making plans to deploy Low Frequency Active Sonar (LFA), a new extended-range submarine-detection system that will create noise billions of times more intense than before in the world?s oceans. The... continued

Sex From Space

July 19, 2001
Comets and asteroids have been blamed for bringing life to Earth in the form of bacteria and wiping out the dinosaurs. Now scientists say they may also be responsible for sex. The origin of sex remains one of biology?s greatest... continued

Huge Dust Storm Shrouds Mars

July 18, 2001
An enormous dust storm is taking place on Mars, shrouding the planet in haze and raising the temperature of its atmosphere an amazing 54 degrees Fahrenheit. It?s the largest such storm in 25 years and still growing. The storm is... continued