Thursday morning, the folks who keep track of the “Doomsday Clock” will tell us how close we are to midnight.
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The night the iguanas fell: Cold snap chills Florida, and lizard meat is up for sale
The weather in Florida has been so cold, iguanas are falling from trees. People are selling their meat.
‘Falling iguana’ alert issued in Florida due to cold temperatures: ‘Don’t assume that they’re dead’
The National Weather Service in Miami has issued an unofficial warning for falling iguanas tonight due to an unusual cold snap in the Sunshine State.
Scientists just discovered that an asteroid may have ended ‘Snowball Earth’ 2.2 billion years ago
Some 2.2 billion years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Earth, leaving behind a massive, 43-mile-wide crater in what’s now Western Australia.
‘Hazardous’ travel ahead: Weekend winter storm to wallop Midwest and Northeast with snow and ice
A winter storm will dump snow and ice across a wide swath of the northern USA on Friday and into the weekend.
Prepare for severe weather this weekend: Massive storm to bring tornadoes, floods, snow, ice
A large, powerhouse storm is poised to deliver a variety of nasty weather across the U.S. starting this weekend.
950 earthquakes have hit Puerto Rico so far this year. Why? Blame it on an ‘earthquake swarm’
A 6.4 magnitude earthquake – and 950 smaller ones – have hit Puerto Rico in the first 10 days of January 2020. So why is this happening?
Over 1 billion animals feared dead in Australian wildfires, experts say
The World Wildlife Fund in Australia estimates that as many as 1.25 billion animals may have been killed directly or indirectly from fires that have scorched Australia.
Dangerous snow squalls are threatening travel in the northeast US
Potentially dangerous snow squalls are a major weather threat across the Northeast on Wednesday, forecasters warn.
Climate change has Australian wildfires ‘running out of control,’ experts say
Climate change didn’t ignite Australia’s fires, but it’s turning them into catastrophic blazes by creating warmer temps and increasing fuel available.