By: Rosie McCall/IFL Science With Texas reeling from Harvey, Irma devastating several Caribbean islands, and now Jose being upgraded from a tropical storm to a Category 1 hurricane, it’s been a rough season for North America. The announcement was made Wednesday afternoon when Jose’s maximum winds hit 125 kilometers per hour (75 miles per hour). As of 5 am ET on Wednesday, maximum…
Heavy Monsoon Causing Extreme Flooding In South Asia Has Killed 1,200 People So Far
By: Josh Davis/IFL Science With much of the world’s media focusing on the historic floods currently washing through Texas and the American South, little attention has been given to the even more deadly monsoon rains that have been washing over South Asia at exactly the same time. Currently, India, Nepal, and Bangladesh are being hit by the…
“Unprecedented” Hurricane Harvey Is “One Of The Worst Disasters In US History”
By: Robin Andrews/IFL Science Harvey may have been downgraded to a storm from a Category 4 hurricane, but it will sit over Texas until the middle of the week – and its legacy will be felt for years to come. It’s being described by the National Weather Service (NWS) as an “unprecedented event”, whose “impacts are unknown…
Major Climate Change Denial Think Tank Admits To Using False Data
By: Robin Andrews/IFL Science Does a bear shit in the woods? Is the Pope a Catholic? These questions are as rhetorical as this one: Are climate change deniers talking out of their backsides? The answer, plainly, is yes – and now a major group spreading false claims about climate science has at least come out and admitted just…
An Unbelievably Massive Volcanic Engine Has Just Been Found Hiding Under Washington
By: Robin Andrews/IFL Science Something fiery lives beneath Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park – a huge upwelling of superheated mantle material, in fact, which is melting the crust and generating a huge supply of magma. It’s an unstoppable torrid force that will outlive our own species. This is well-established, but a dramatic new study reveals that it has a friend….
A Garbage Patch The Size Of Mexico Was Just Discovered In The Pacific Ocean
By: Tom Hale/IFL Science Scientists have found another patch of plastics, human trash, and chemical sludge deep within in a remote pocket of the Pacific Ocean. Much like the more northerly “Great Pacific garbage patch” found between Hawaii and mainland US, it’s definitely not good news. The new patch was recently confirmed by a project led…
When An Antarctic Iceberg The Size Of A Country Breaks Away, What Happens Next?
By: Mark Brandon/IFL Science You never forget the first time you see an iceberg. The horizon of a ship at sea is a two dimensional space and to see a three dimensional piece of ice appear in the ocean is quite something. But, in truth, the first iceberg you see is likely to be small. Most…
Spot A Centipede On Your Floor? You Shouldn’t Squish It – Here’s Why
By: Jonathan Maes/Shareably When people see a spider, a cockroach or any other small animal that isn’t exactly friendly-looking, we tend to take a shoe and simply squish it. Squishing centipedes, however, isn’t always a good idea. Now admittedly, centipedes aren’t exactly appealing to see and some might even be scared of the mere thought of…
Mount Everest’s Famous Hillary Step Destroyed By 2015 Nepal Earthquake
By: IFL Science The devastating April 2015 earthquake in Nepal has, among other things, done some peculiar things to Mount Everest. A few months back, a reconnaissance team was sent out to map it again to see if it had changed height. Rather amusingly, no-one knows yet if it’s now taller or shorter than before….