From the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS):

In response to high gas prices, the Bush administration and its allies are calling for new oil drilling that would take decades and eventually save only pennies-per-gallon.

Meanwhile, Bush’s Department of Transportation is undermining historic…

The National Weather Service has issued a hurricane warning for the Florida Keys and parts of the west coast of Florida, as Tropical Storm Fay moves across Cuba and is expected to intensify as it moves into US waters. 

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NASA is reporting that drought conditions on the high plains of New Mexico, southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, and Oklahoma have crept gradually into the “exceptional drought”category, with conditions worsening since fall of 2007. The map below shows the drought intensity.  So…

Tropical storm Edouard has made landfall this morning hitting a wildlife refuge area between High Island and Sabine Pass on the Texas coast with 65 mph winds.  The strom surge was expected to be approximately 2-4 feet.

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Hurricane Dolly came ashore on July 23 as a Category 2 hurricane with winds of about 160 kilometers per hour brought noticeable changes to the Texas coastline. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured the top…

A strong earthquake struck the Los Angeles area on July 29, 2008. The 5.4 magnitude quake felt throughout Southern California and as far away as Las Vegas is the strongest earthquake has ever hit the region for more than a decade.…

Tropical Storm Dolly has grown into a category one hurricane as it heads towards the US-Mexican border, forcing the evacuation of thousands in Mexico while the US Navy sheltered aircraft (BBC). National Hurricane Centre (NHC) warned that the hurricane was…

Hurricane Elida was formed in the Eastern Pacific ocean off the Central American coast on July 12, 2008. Elida reached a peak strength of Category Two, with sustained winds of 165 kilometers per hour (105 miles per hour), according to Unisys…

Image Credit to NASA

This series of images taken by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite chronicles the development and decay of the first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Bertha. TRMM (a joint mission between NASA and…

NPR interviewed T. Boone Pickens this morning, a Texas oil tycoon with designs