October 20, 2015 University of Michigan program aims to bolster scientific basis of Great Lakes cleanup effort The University of Michigan is establishing a research program designed to make sure the federal government bases decisions in its billion-dollar battle to clean up the Great Lakes on solid scien...
February 5, 2015 Record number of Oklahoma tremors raises earthquake threat, officials say The rate of earthquakes in Oklahoma has increased by about 50 percent since October 2013, significantly increasing the chance for a damaging quake in the central part of the state, federal and state agencies said Monday.
January 13, 2015 40 years of photos show our changing planet The surface of the Earth is always changing -- and the Landsat series of Earth-observing satellites has been watching the planet change since 1972. These satellite images show some of the remarkable transformation over the past 40 years. See more at the EarthShots site.
November 20, 2014 Rare 'fire devil' caught on film Nature's not much for subtlety. Just ask Chris Tangey, who watched in awe as a 100-foot-high whirlwind of fire tore around a patch of Australian outback Tuesday Sept. 11.
