A large winter storm system that moved across the East Coast over the weekend caused serious floods in Tennessee and Kentucky, as seen in newly released NASA satellite images. The images show the Mississippi River’s serpentine path in western Tennessee and eastern Arkansas and Missouri. They also show the rivers and water bodies east of […]
Heavy Rains Could Trigger Mudslides in Fire-Ravaged Southern California
Heavy rains are expected to hit southern California this week, which carry the risk of mudslides to an area recently scarred by intense and widespread fires. Wildfires in California are a regular phenomenon, but last month’s fires in the Los Angeles area were a rare breed. The blazes grew rapidly, fueled by gusty Santa Ana winds […]
New Evidence Bolsters Theory of Megaflood That Refilled the Mediterranean Millions of Years Ago
Millions of years ago, the Mediterranean Sea evaporated. It may have then been refilled by the largest flooding event ever experienced on Earth. An international team of researchers has uncovered new evidence supporting the Zanclean megaflood, a theorized event that refilled the Mediterranean Sea after the Messinian Salinity Crisis had transformed it into a dry, […]