The Pacific Northwest has been inundated with wildfires most stemming from lightning strikes during summer storms. Four of these wildfires can be seen in this natural-color Aqua satellite image collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, MODIS, instrument aboard. This image was taken on August 11, 2014. Actively burning areas, detected by MODIS’s thermal bands, […]
17 adults and seven children are trapped 45 feet above ground level on the Joker’s Jinx roller coaster at Six Fags on Sunday in the hot summer sun. The roller coaster in Upper Marlboro, Maryland malfunctioned and rescue crews arrived at the scene at 2:30 pm on Sunday afternoon. No one has been currently injured in […]
Election concerns won out over those of the environment and health in Colorado today as Democrats there pulled two controversial initiatives from the ballot on the day of the deadline for submission. The initiative would have severely restricted the use of fracking to draw natural gas from its location in shale deposits. The measures would […]
After the CIA Inspector General issued his report on the CIA snooping investigation where it was alleged that the agency snooped on the Senate Intelligence Committee, John Brennan issued a statement apologized to the Senate for it covert actions. Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Intelligence committee, was denounced publicly for alleging in March that […]