View photos Cubans wade through a flooded street in Havana (AFP Photo/YAMIL LAGE) More Havana (AFP) – Residents of Cuba’s historic capital Havana were waist-deep in floodwaters Sunday after Hurricane Irma swept by, cutting off power and forcing the evacuation of more than a million people. Wild waves were crashing […]
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View photos Wrecked boats line the Geminga shipyard in Saint Martin after Hurricane Irma. Officials on the island of Guadeloupe, where French aid efforts are being coordinated, suspended boat crossings to the hardest-hit territories of St Martin and St Barts (AFP Photo/Martin BUREAU) More Marigot (AFP) – People on the […]
View photos Fierce winds were whipping this road in Naples, Florida on Sunday but the threat of destructive sea surges loomed even larger (AFP Photo/) More Naples (United States) (AFP) – Even more than the fierce winds whipping tall palm trees and threatening to rip roofs from houses, the beach […]
As of noon Saturday, Patrick Air Force Base and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station were completely evacuated in anticipation of Hurricane Irma, according to an Air Force news release. Despite the record-breaking storm’s rapid trajectory towards the Florida coast earlier this week, SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force still decided […]
At another glacier in the Valais region in July mountaineers discovered the remains of a German backpacker, who died 30 years ago while climbing the Swiss Alps (AFP Photo/handout) More Geneva (AFP) – Part of the Swiss alpine glacier Trift in the country’s south collapsed Sunday, but caused no damage […]
As classes got underway this week, something was missing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Something weird. The sidewalks of Cambridge were jammed with students and their boxes, as they always are during the first week of September. There was nowhere to park. Moving vans blocked traffic on every street. […]
Found lurking in amberP. Barden & D. A. Grimaldi By Josh Gabbatiss A newly discovered species of prehistoric “hell ant” had anatomy that lived up to its demonic name, including a lethal feeding apparatus reinforced with metal. Hell ants are an extinct lineage from the Cretaceous Period. Instead of regular […]
View photos The devastation in Juchitan de Zaragoza caused by the huge earthquake that hit Mexico’s Pacific coast (AFP Photo/RONALDO SCHEMIDT) More Juchitán de Zaragoza (Mexico) (AFP) – Rescuers pulled bodies from the rubble and grieving families carried coffins through the streets Saturday after Mexico’s biggest earthquake in a century […]