Hurricane Irene Damage to Sunset Grille at Duck, NC Aug 31, 2011; 2:59 PM ET Two months ago, I fell in love with the town of Duck on the North Carolina Outer Banks. With the help of some YouTube videos, I was able to do comparison shots of the Sunset ...

Recovery from the destruction left behind by Hurricane Irene continues in the mid-Atlantic and New England states today. Irene's storm surge, winds, and record rains likely did $3 - $6 billion in insured damage to the U.S., according to AIR-Worldwide. ...

Well, if hurricanes are on one side of the meteorological spectrum, what is on the other? Recent fog picture courtesy of the Seattle Times You guessed it...fog, and folks the Northwest is entering fog season.  In fact, September and October are t...

Published : Wednesday, August 31, 2011 00:00 Article Views : 32 Written by : FRANCIS EARL A. CUETO STATE forecasters warned that Filipinos should brace for three to four fierce and destructive cyclones next month, even those more powerful than...

Record flooding continues in the Northeast from Irene's torrential rains. Hardest hit was Vermont, where heavy rains in the weeks prior to Irene's arrival had left soils in the top 20% for moisture, historically. Irene dumped 5 - 8 inches of rain over ...

Mozambique is ceding 6 million hectares of land to Brazilian farmers. The idea is to draw on the Brazilian experience in the Cerrado, a biosphere similar to the African savanna, where industrial cattle grazing and soy plantations have already devastated 80% of the richest grasslands in the world.

By Brian Edwards, Meteorologist Aug 30, 2011; 3:45 PM ET As fall approaches the Northern Hemisphere, California's wildfire season begins to ramp up. Typically, after a dry and calm summer season, wildfire season begins during the months of Sept...

Irene is now gone, but the US coastline is still dealing with flooding problems from North Carolina, all the way up to Vermont. Jose was a short lived storm that had no impact on land. So now we are left with Tropical Depression #12. It formed this mor...

By Brian Edwards, Meteorologist Aug 30, 2011; 10:45 AM ET While much of the mid-Atlantic and New England continues to suffer from residual flooding and power outages in the wake of Irene, a new storm in the Atlantic bears some watching. Katia (...

Breakthrough in hydrogen fuel cells Public release date: 30-Aug-2011[ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Robert Perkinsperkinsr@usc.edu213-740-9226University of Southern California USC chemists develop way to safely store, extract hydrogen A team of USC s...

Extreme Flooding in New England from Hurricane Irene Aug 29, 2011; 5:28 PM ET The big story today is the flooding in New England from Hurricane Irene, parts of which received over a foot of rain when Irene was done dropping 20 inches on North Carolina...

Press Release 11-176Testing the Water for Bioenergy Crops Water significant limiting factor in growing crops like switchgrass Midwestern United States in early autumn; a mosaic of row crops like corn and soybean.Credit and Larger Version August 29,...

On Sunday morning Anderson Cooper of CNN was asking about the strong winds that were being forecast and this brings up something that has really bothered me about the storm:  there is really no reliable evidence of hurricane-force winds at any tim...

Hurricane Irene is gone, but the huge hurricane's torrential rains have unleashed one of the Northeast's greatest flood disasters. Videos of rampaging rivers in Vermont, New York State, New Jersey, and surrounding states attest to the extreme nature of...

Radar shows that ocean currents off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan, changed abruptly during the March tsunami. Larger arrows show faster current flows. Blue and red dots are radar stations. (Credit: Belinda Lipa) UC DAVIS (US) — The tsunami that devas...

Press Release 11-175Hurricane Irene: Scientists Collect Water Quality and Climate Change Data from Huge Storm Researchers pursue new information from East Coast hurricane Storms that lead to flood conditions in White Clay Creek, Pa., are a research ...

By Jim Andrews, Senior Meteorologist Aug 29, 2011; 2:08 PM ET Tropical Storm Talas will gather typhoon strength south of Japan before midweek and could ultimately make a landfall in southeastern Japan near Tokyo. Talas, as a tropical storm or ty...

By Alex Sosnowski, Expert Senior Meteorologist Aug 29, 2011; 12:11 PM ET There is a possibility that more than just tropical moisture flows into Texas starting later this week. An upcoming area of disturbed weather in the western Gulf of Mexico b...

Hurricane Irene hit New Jersey ten miles north of Atlantic City at 5:30 am EDT, as a minimum-strength Category 1 hurricane with 75 mph winds. Irene is only the second hurricane since 1851 to hit New Jersey. At 9 am EDT, Irene made a third U.S. landfall...

Once again protesters have poured again into streets of Tabriz and Urmia in Iran's Azerbaijan region on Sunday to call on the Iranian government to save the dying Urmia Lake.

The eye of Hurricane Irene is back over water, after the hurricane completed a 11-hour crossing of eastern North Carolina. Irene came ashore over Cape Lookout, North Carolina at 7:30 am EDT this morning as a Category 1 hurricane with 85 mph winds. The ...

Tropical storm Irene hit Puerto Rico on August 21st leaving wind damage, floods, constant rain, and the evacuation of entire communities. This is the same storm, now a hurricane, that is hitting the United States east coast. The online community has posted videos of the aftermath of tropical storm Irene ...

Hurricane Irene roared ashore over Cape Lookout, North Carolina at 7:30 am this morning. The Cedar Island Ferry Terminal measured sustained winds of 90 mph, gusting to 110 mph at 7:19am, and a trained spotter on Atlantic Beach measured sustained winds ...

The media is hitting Hurricane Irene really hard and some descriptions are going too far: "historical storm", "storm of the century", etc.  Folks, this a category 1 storm with sustained winds of 85 mph.  Serious, but not catastrophic.  W...

By Vickie Frantz, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer Aug 27, 2011; 1:18 PM ET Photos of the World Trade Center construction taken by AccuWeather staff the week of Aug. 20, 2011. Construction at the site of the World Trade Center memorial, Reflecting Ab...

As of 300AM EDT, Hurricane Irene was located at 33.7N, 76.5W, 60 miles south of Cape Lookout. It was moving north-northeast at 14 mph with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph, making it a Category 1 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Irene has a minimum ...

Irene On Her Way... Watch Radar and Webcams Aug 26, 2011; 4:11 PM ET Hurricane Irene is on her way to the Outer Banks and the Northeast; it's already raining hard this Friday afternoon on the North Carolina coast. I will be continuing to provide updat...

Satellite data and measurements from the Hurricane Hunters show that Irene continues to weaken. A 1:32 pm EDT center fix by an Air Force Reserve aircraft found that Irene's eyewall is still gone, and the central pressure had risen to 951 mb from a low ...

Satellite data and measurements from the Hurricane Hunters show that Irene is weakening. A 9:21 am EDT center fix by an Air Force Reserve aircraft found that Irene's eyewall had collapsed, and the central pressure had risen to 946 mb from a low of 942 ...

As of 200AM EDT, Hurricane Irene was located at 28.7N, 77.3W, 460 miles south-southwest of Cape Hatteras. It was moving north at 14 mph with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph, making it a Category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Irene has a minim...