Nature & Natural Resources

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 12 (UPI) — Residents of parts of North Carolina and Virginia were without power Thursday as a fall storm hammered the East Coast with high winds, utility companies said.
The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer said thousands of Duke Energy costumers lost power Thursday morning as the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida brought strong [...]

ATLANTA, Nov. 11 (UPI) — Heavy rains that pushed Georgia creeks over their banks Wednesday prompted Virginia officials to declare a state of emergency.
Gov Timothy M. Kaine directed Virginia agencies to take necessary actions to protect the public from “the combined effects of the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida and a coastal nor’easter.”
“With the National [...]

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Nov. 11 (UPI) — U.S. scientists say they’ve discovered Earth’s climate was much cooler than thought billions of years ago, which may mean life developed earlier than thought.
Researchers from Texas A&M, Yale and Stanford universities say their findings could change current ideas about the formation of the earliest life on the [...]

CASAMICCIOLA, Italy, Nov. 10 (UPI) — The mudslide that struck a volcanic island Tuesday in the Gulf of Naples, burying a town, was like “the end of the world,” an official said.
A 15-year-old girl was dead on the island of Ischia, and an 11-year-old girl was missing, the Italian news agency ANSA said. The [...]

A Park Service employee cleans the top of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in preparation for Veterans Day, in Washington on November 10, 2009. UPI/Kevin Dietsch
Date Taken: November 10, 2009