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This rampant summer growth is caused by a combination of almost constant sunlight, cool 50-degree nights and warm - not hot - 70-degree days.
Posted 07.31.2009 | New York
New Yorkers this weekend snapped photos and shot video of the sky last weekend after rare clouds, resulting from moist air and dry air mixing after a ...
AP | BRUCE SMITH | Posted 05.24.2009 | Home
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — South Carolina's biggest wildfire in more than three decades _ a blaze four miles wide _ destroyed dozens of homes Th...
AP | JAY REEVES | Posted 04.01.2009 | Home
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A potent March snowstorm blanketed much of the Southeast with snow Sunday before barreling toward the Northeast, where offici...
AP | JOE BIESK | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gov. Steve Beshear (beh-SHEER) is raising his state's death toll to 24 in a storm that caked several states in ice last week. ...
AP | ROGER ALFORD | Posted 03.04.2009 | Home
CANEYVILLE, Ky. — Thousands of National Guard troops swinging chainsaws cut their way into remote communities Sunday to reach residents stranded...
AP | BETH LaMONTAGNE HALL | Posted 01.14.2009 | Home
JAFFREY, N.H. — Joined by people seeking shelter from the bitter cold, parishioners at the Jaffrey Bible Church on Sunday thanked God for a warm...
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 11.25.2008 | Home
WASHINGTON — Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas that worries climate scientists. Airborne levels of two other potent gases _ one from ...
AP | SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER | Posted 11.13.2008 | Green
LOS ANGELES — Two huge wildfires driven by strong Santa Ana winds burned into neighborhoods near Los Angeles on Monday, forcing frantic evacuati...
AP | DINA CAPPIELLO, FRANK BASS and CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 11.05.2008 | Green
WASHINGTON — Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental da...
AP | Posted 10.28.2008 | Green
EASTPORT, Maine — Forecasters issued a rare tropical storm warning and hurricane watch Saturday for parts of coastal Maine as Hurricane Kyle roa...
AP | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Posted 10.10.2008 | Green
McALLEN, Texas — With Hurricane Ike steaming into the Gulf of Mexico, Texas emergency officials Tuesday stood ready to order 1 million people ev...
Huffington Post via Boston Globe | Posted 10.09.2008 | Green
The Boston Globe has a collection of amazing images of hurricanes as seen from space. Check out more pictures here....
AP | ALAN SAYRE | Posted 10.01.2008 | Business
HAMMOND, La. — Although attention is focused on the petroleum industry as Hurricane Gustav takes aim at the Gulf Coast, billions of dollars are ...
Daily Mail | Fiona Macrae | Posted 10.01.2008 | Green
The North Pole has become an island for the first time in human history. Startling satellite pictures taken three days ago show that melting ice has ...
AP | STACEY PLAISANCE and BECKY BOHRER | Posted 10.01.2008 | Chicago
NEW ORLEANS — With a historic evacuation of nearly 2 million people from the Louisiana coast complete, gun-toting police and National Guardsmen ...
AP | BECKY BOHRER | Posted 09.30.2008 | Green
NEW ORLEANS — Spooked by predictions that Hurricane Gustav could grow into a Category 5 monster, an estimated 1 million people fled the Gulf Coa...
AP | JOHN PORRETTO | Posted 09.30.2008 | Business
HOUSTON — Royal Dutch Shell, BP and other oil companies wrapped up evacuations and shut down production Saturday as an intensifying Hurricane Gu...
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics
The Bush Administration's attempt to reframe its New Orleans legacy on the eve of both parties' national conventions has sent an unlikely point man into the trenches, one who wrote the book on information warfare.
AP | BILL KACZOR | Posted 09.23.2008 | Home
APALACHICOLA, Fla. — Tropical Storm Fay was downgraded to a tropical depression Saturday night, but cities along the Gulf Coast were still braci...
AP | Dan Joling | Posted 09.22.2008 | Green
Nine polar bears were observed in one day swimming in open ocean off Alaska's northwest coast, an increase from previous surveys that may indicate war...
AP | BRENDAN FARRINGTON | Posted 09.22.2008 | Green
STEINHATCHEE, Fla. _ As Tropical Storm Fay finally got on track Friday to leave Florida behind, flood-stricken homeowners got an encouraging sign: Mud...
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 09.21.2008 | Green
WASHINGTON — In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant c...
AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 09.18.2008 | Home
KEY WEST, Fla. — Two years since a hurricane last lashed at Florida, many residents took a wait-and-see attitude Monday as a strengthening Tropi...
Reuters | Manuel Jimenez | Posted 09.16.2008 | Home
Tropical Storm Fay threatened to strengthen into a hurricane as it moved toward Cuba after dousing Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Saturday with t...
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Suzy Bales | Posted 08.01.2009 | Home