UPDATE: Mississippi River Could Crest Monday at Memphis (Video)
Forecasters are pushing up their prediction of when the Mississippi River could crest at Memphis. Now, the river could reach 48 feet as early as Monday night. (May 9) New […]
Memphis TN Flood: Army Corps of Engineers: No Concern for Levee Failure (Video)
Update on my previous post: Flood waters near record levels in Memphis TN (Video footage / pictures) Forecasters say the Mississippi River could crest late Monday at Memphis, hours sooner […]
Top ten reasons John Muir – the Father of our National Parks – is awesome!
Often referred to as “The Father of our National Parks,” John Muir (1838-1914) was America’s most famous and influential naturalist and conservationist, and founder of the Sierra Club. Ten Reasons […]
Flood waters near record levels in Memphis TN (Video footage / pictures)
Historically high water levels in the Mississippi and Ohio river systems prompted the Army Corps of Engineers to intentionally blow up levees and flood 130,000 acres in Missouri. Now “the […]
LUNCHTIME! (Image)
It’s lunchtime!
Fukushima is actually the FOURTH nuclear accident – there was one before 3-Mile Island…
In light of the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl, which has followed the news of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, I did a bit of poking around […]
What a stinker! World’s smelliest flower opens for the first time in a DECADE
For botanists, it doesn’t get more exciting than this – after 75 years, the Titan Arum plant has unfurled its leaves and is in full bloom. For curious crowds who […]
‘Spillionaires’: Profiteering and Mismanagement in the Wake of the BP Oil Spill
The oil spill that was once expected to bring economic ruin to the Gulf Coast appears to have delivered something entirely different: a gusher of money. Some people profiteered from […]
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