Digg - What the Internet is talking about right now http://digg.com/tag/nature Wed, 22 May 2013 09:42:31 +0000 Wed, 22 May 2013 09:42:31 +0000 15 If the death toll goes unchanged, the tornado will rank as the 37th most deadly since 1950, according to historical data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, mapped here. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/map_of_the_week/2013/05/map_charts_killer_tornadoes_in_u_s_since_1950.html http://on.digg.com/119CnSx Tue, 21 May 2013 20:47:12 +0000 If our planet's increasingly extreme weather isn't caused by man-made climate change, then it stands to reason that it's actually caused by man-made supervillains using government technology to take American Freedoms with superstorms like Monday's mile-wide monster tornadoes. http://gawker.com/why-did-obama-make-those-tornados-ask-the-tornado-trut-509058783 http://on.digg.com/119t8BL Tue, 21 May 2013 20:30:38 +0000 Tornado strength is currently measured on what is called the Enhanced Fujita Scale, which gives the tornado a rating from 0 to 5 based on estimated wind speeds and the severity of the damage. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/05/20/185610261/measuring-the-power-of-deadly-tornadoes http://on.digg.com/1905yyU Tue, 21 May 2013 13:17:09 +0000 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has some fresh news from World War II: Thirteen Merchant Marine ships sunk by the German navy in the Battle of the Atlantic threaten to release oil from their watery graves. http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/05/shipwrecks-world-war-ii-oil-leak-uboat http://on.digg.com/10iqazl Tue, 21 May 2013 12:05:01 +0000 The birth of the devastating Oklahoma tornado was caught on tape. http://videos.digg.com/post/50982722610/the-oklahoma-tornado-has-a-terrifying-birth-video http://on.digg.com/190XHkD Tue, 21 May 2013 11:19:42 +0000 A powerful tornado leveled homes and businesses in and around Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon. Follow the path of the storm with this interactive. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/05/20/us/oklahoma-tornado-map.html?=hp&_r=6& http://on.digg.com/14MwGy8 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:14:55 +0000 The cicadas haven't even reached their mating season climax and already the visual evidence of their East Coast presence is alarming. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/05/cicadas-are-coming-heres-photographic-proof/65412/ http://on.digg.com/13G8Y7J Mon, 20 May 2013 19:08:08 +0000 At 70, Lela Hartman believed we would one day use technology to prevent disasters like the Tri-State Tornado she witnessed as a small child. Are we getting any closer? http://www.psmag.com/science/a-survivor-of-the-worst-tornado-in-history-tells-her-tale-58178/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+miller-mccune%2Fmain_feed+%28Pacific+Standard+-+Main+Feed%29 http://on.digg.com/18Z0avT Mon, 20 May 2013 17:22:04 +0000 Ever wonder what an internet troll is like in person? We met one in his lair. http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/05/video-meet-climate-trolls http://on.digg.com/14Ilr9V Mon, 20 May 2013 11:41:55 +0000 An Australian led-project to turn 1.4 million tons of Chinese pig poo into alternative energy and fertilizer has been given a national science award. http://m.phys.org/news/2013-05-big-pig-poo-problem.html http://on.digg.com/17T8HSh Mon, 20 May 2013 11:40:14 +0000 The mountain represents "everything wrong with climbing." http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/06/125-everest-maxed-out/jenkins-text http://on.digg.com/14BTGQa Sat, 18 May 2013 18:22:51 +0000 What we call e-waste—batteries, laptops, monitors, whatever—are all full of mercury and lead, and unlikely to disposed of responsibly. http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/an-electro-undertaker-explains-americas-e-waste-problem http://on.digg.com/10YcDOF Sat, 18 May 2013 15:42:17 +0000 A deafening rumble alerted two scientists to an amazing sight: the collapse of one of Greenland's biggest and fastest-moving glaciers. And because the scientists were already in place with a time-lapse camera, they were able to capture the calving event — one of the biggest of these glacier collapses ever recorded on film. http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/15/.UZRfRtXEDoo.twitter http://on.digg.com/14sak4P Thu, 16 May 2013 12:37:34 +0000 The transformation from caterpillar to butterfly is one of the most exquisite in the natural world. And now you can get an inside look as it happens. http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/14/3-d-scans-caterpillars-transforming-butterflies-metamorphosis/ http://on.digg.com/180oKLF Thu, 16 May 2013 11:16:57 +0000 The authors of a new environmental study warn that the glaciers surrounding Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world, are receding at an alarming rate as temperatures rise and snowfall decreases. http://theweek.com/article/index/244244/the-melting-of-mount-everest-by-the-numbers http://on.digg.com/13xLK3B Wed, 15 May 2013 21:50:33 +0000 Anyone hoping to spice up their gluten-free diet need look only at the billions of beady-eyed, shrimp-size  cicadas currently emerging from the ground in the eastern United States. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/04/130515-cicadas-recipes-food-cooking-bugs-nation-animals/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ng%2FNews%2FNews_Main+%28National+Geographic+News+-+Main%29 http://on.digg.com/105cdEX Wed, 15 May 2013 18:54:30 +0000 There are few industries more exposed to financial risk from climate change than insurance. Unsurprisingly, the industry at large is trying to figure out how to limit its losses from extreme weather events. Individual insurers are a little slower to act. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2013/05/climate-change-insurance/65259/ http://on.digg.com/12bFXOn Wed, 15 May 2013 18:05:57 +0000 When it comes to solar eclipses, the total eclipse is king. http://petapixel.com/2013/05/15/breathtaking-footage-of-an-annular-solar-eclipse-captured-at-sunrise/ http://on.digg.com/101rHGo Wed, 15 May 2013 17:03:42 +0000 Here's the catch: Scientists can't explain the phenomenon. http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/05/menace-manure-foam-still-haunting-huge-hog-farms http://on.digg.com/13kzQGE Wed, 15 May 2013 11:30:38 +0000 The roller coaster had sat in the Atlantic off the New Jersey shore since October, when Hurricane Sandy devoured the pier it had stood on for years. The ride's watery grave next to Seaside Heights became an enduring symbol of the storm's toll on the Jersey Shore. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/05/15/nyregion/20130515-coaster.html?=hp&_r=6& http://on.digg.com/12z8kGM Wed, 15 May 2013 03:53:40 +0000