Florence has company. As the United States’ eastern coast prepares for the category 4 hurricane, new satellite images show two more storms moving across the Atlantic Ocean.
Hurricane Florence, currently a Category 4 storm that could make landfall along the southeastern US coast later this week, was spotted by the crew of the International Space Station yesterday.
Starbucks has unveiled its first location in Italy, the country whose coffee culture inspired the upscale and ubiquitous American chain.
Jebi, Japan’s largest typhoon in a quarter century, has left behind it a trail of wreckage. Some of the most pronounced damage was seen near the country’s shoreline, where massive gusts toppled shipping containers, blew tankers into seawalls and took down other infrastructure. Kansai International Airport, which serves Osaka, is still closed, with thousands of travelers stranded.
Typhoon Jebi made landfall in Japan on Tuesday (Sept. 4), making it one of the strongest storms to hit the country in 25 years. At least six people have died as a result of the storm so far. In Osaka, flooding led to the closing of Kansai International Airport, with pictures showing the airport’s runways covered in water. More than 1 million people have been evacuated from vulnerable areas, according to Reuters.
Update: Tonight, at the US Open in Flushing, Queens, marked the 30th time Serena and Venus Willams faced each other on a professional tennis court—their 16th meeting in a major. Despite rolling her ankle in the opening minutes of the match, and having it taped by a trainer, Serena prevailed, winning in two sets: 6-1, 6-2.
This week has been a lousy one for walking around in New York City, let alone attempting a game of tennis.
Thirteen years ago today (Aug. 29), Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi as a Category 3 storm. It remains one of the deadliest and costliest storms in US history, claiming more than a thousand lives and causing $125 billion in damage. New Orleans, where breached levees resulted in flooding for much of the city, was hit hard.
Glitchy, confusing, and unproductive, the modern conference call is the bane of the white-collar working world. So why did US president Donald Trump think this was the best way to roll out the newly renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement?
The outer reaches of Hurricane Lane are drenching Hawaii with heavy rains, in some places as much as 20 inches (50 centimeters), the AP reports. Winds blowing at roughly 120 miles per hour have also been reported.
Hurricane Lane is (slowly) moving toward Hawaii, the most dangerous major storm to threaten the islands in 26 years, CNN reports. Even if the Category 4 storm doesn’t make landfall, its effects could be damaging. Its power is not being underestimated: Some forecasts are calling for several feet of rain, which could trigger landslides. At its current position south of the islands, winds are blowing at around 130 miles per hour.
The Hajj, the yearly pilgrimage of observant Muslims to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia that began yesterday (Aug. 19), will continue through Aug. 24. One of the largest migration events in the world—more than 2 million are expected to make the journey—its sheer size is appreciated best from above.
Art is sometimes the easiest way of understanding the mysterious and unknowable.
Atolls are tantalizing in their size, shape, and isolation. The tiny ring-shaped islands formed by build up of coral from previous volcanic islands evoke the desert islands of our dreams: lonely stretches of sand in the middle of crystal clear waters, with few if any people around.
The death toll from the Morandi Bridge collapse in the northern Italian city of Genoa has risen to 39, the Guardian reports.
Fifteen years ago, a massive power failure hit the northeast United States and parts of Canada, leaving many cities without electricity during the height of summer.
While no where close to the planet-sized storm that’s been kicking up dust across Mars this last month, the sand and dust storms—sometimes known by their Arabic name, “haboobs”—that have occured in recent years on Earth are still terrifying. They can create swirling, gurgling walls of sand, creeping across the desert, making it impossible to see 20 feet in front of you.
A fiery truck collision in Italy has resulted in a least two deaths, scores of injuries, and a partially collapsed roadway. The crash, between a truck transporting cars and one transporting a flammable liquid, happened today (Aug. 6) along an elevated motorway in Borgo Panigale, a town outside of Bologna, near the regional airport. The explosion spread to the parking lot situated below the road, where several parked cars also caught fire.
It was 73 years ago today (Aug. 6) that the Enola Gay, a US military B-29 Superfortress, dropped a nuclear bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing tens of thousands instantly. Many more died in the ensuing days and months.
Deadly wildfires in the US and Europe caused by increasingly hot and dry weather have been particularly pronounced this year, flaring up in areas—such as above the Arctic Circle in Sweden—where they are rarely seen.
North Korea isn’t exactly committed to complete denuclearization, it seems: new satellite images show evidence (paywall) of increased activity at facilities that are known to produce ballistic missiles.
Wildfires continued to spread in regions across the globe as hot and dry temperatures made forests especially vulnerable. And heatwaves across Europe and Asia have been especially deadly.
The other night I went to a great outdoor concert and found myself wedged behind one of the most egregious concert photo takers I’d ever seen. He had taken several 30-second-long videos on his phone, more pictures on a separate digital point-and-shoot camera, and (my jaw dropped in astonishment) a third camera, which took instant photos. Judging by his multiple attempts and the constant readjustments of his camera, my fellow concertgoer didn’t get many photos he was happy with. Worse, he spent a huge portion of the show tinkering with his settings and reviewing his pictures.
Multiple destructive and, in some cases, deadly, wildfires have been burning around the world in recent weeks, as global heat waves have left regions hot and dry.
