A 16-Million-Year-Old Tree Tells a Deep Story of the Passage of Time
NPR: A hunter in Alaska is found dead after being mauled by a bear
The 50-year-old had been reported overdue from a deer hunting trip. At least 30,000 brown bears are estimated to be in Alaska and mainly live along the southern coast.
Morons
The Guardian: Bill Maher puts the fate of the Great Barrier Reef in the spotlight – but something’s missing from the soundbites
The Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg has told the US cable host its biggest threat is not the climate crisis, but do his claims stack up?
Celebs
NBC News: Woman rescued after getting trapped in crevice for 7 hours while retrieving phone
The woman was safely rescued, sustaining just scratches and bruises, in the rescue earlier this month. However, she and officials were unable to retrieve her phone.
Their homes burned in the Camp Fire. Then the Park Fire destroyed their new ones.
Four people in California describe what it was like to lose their homes to wildfires twice in six years: First to the Camp Fire in 2018, then to the ongoing Park Fire.
'Wake-up call to humanity': Research shows the Great Barrier Reef is the hottest it's been in 400 years
The Great Barrier Reef is vast and spectacular. But repeated mass coral bleachings, driven by high ocean temperatures, are threatening the survival of coral colonies which are the backbone of the reef.
Climate Change
Drone Footage Captures Extensive Flooding in Southwest Florida
Debby brought heavy rain and flooding to Florida’s Gulf Coast after making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on Monday, August 5. Drone footage, captured by Brier Media, shows extensive flooding in Sarasota, Florida. Debby was downgraded to a tropical storm several hours after making landfall. Clean-up efforts continued in Sarasota on Thursday, with city officials offering recovery resources including storm debris pickup services. Credit: Brier Media via Storyful
Animals
California wildfire sparks whirling fire vortex
Timelapse video from Tuesday (August 6) shows a fire vortex whirling and getting more intense as the Park Fire continues to burn. The blaze has grown into California's fourth largest on record, burning an area larger than the city of Los Angeles across two counties.
CNN: Tropical Storm Debby expected to rapidly strengthen to a Category 1 hurricane and could bring historic rainfall to Southeast
Tropical Storm Debby is now forecast to rapidly intensify into a hurricane before it makes landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region and bring potentially historic amounts of rainfall to parts of the Southeast, due to near-record warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico.
Wildfires encroach on Colorado neighborhoods
A fire southwest of the Denver suburb of Littleton encroached on several large subdivisions Thursday. Neighborhoods with nearly 600 homes were ordered to evacuate after the fire — of unknown origin — spread quickly Tuesday afternoon and overnight when relatively few firefighters were on the scene. (AP video by Thomas Peipert)
Nasa captures giant swirling gases in the sky
The greenhouse gases swirling above our heads: NASA captures footage of CO2 churning in the sky - with huge plumes coming from power plants and forest fires.
Hurricane Nicole makes landfall in Florida in time-lapse from space
Hurricane Nicole made landfall overnight in Florida on Nov. 10, 2022. NOAA's GOES-East captured imagery of the Nicole, which has been downgraded to a tropical storm. Credit: CIRA / NOAA