Gila monster pretty much all live in the desert areas of the southwestern United States and in northern Mexico, parts of northern Mexico.The Gila monster looks and acts a lot like other lizards, but in one key way, it seems different.I mean, Gila monsters would be classified as lizards be...
Debris from the event scattered across the American West and down to the Gulf of Mexico. Today, the Yellowstone hot spot has assumed a mellower mien, as far as we know. It heats the park's famed geysers, hot springs, steam vents and mudpots, and takes some of the chill off of ...
2016:Researchers discovered a specialized custom exploit kit aimed at organizations in over 31 countries, including Poland, the United States, and Mexico. The origin of this attack may potentially be traced back to the web server of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority. 2013:Hackers collected ...
W: The only thing I don’t like is that my mom wants to know every part of my life. Becky, what are you doing tomorrow? Where? With whom? The same questions every day. M: Moms are like that. They ask because they care. You’ve got to be patient with them. My parents ask tho...
If winds several thousand feet above the ground are also from the north or northeast, as they would be when an upper-level low-pressure system is swirling over Arizona, southern Nevada or northwestern Mexico, those stronger winds aloft could be pushed down to the surface, worsening t...
Often, a tornado will die because the cold outflow of air from falling precipitation upsets the balance. Tornado Ratings Tornadoes are among the most dangerous storms on Earth and, as meteorologists strive to protect vulnerable populations through early warning, it helps to classify storms by ...
Air pollution is caused by humans introducing chemicals and other materials into the air. These pollutants are dangerous to both the environment and our own health. Air pollution has a wide range of effects, from respiratory disease to climate change. Un
While atmospheric rivers can be life-threatening, not all of them are dangerous. Most are actually beneficial and carry rain or snow that is crucial to the water supply, and the rivers are an important feature of the global water cycle,according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra...
An artist's depiction of the dinosaur-killing asteroid, which left a 124-mile-wide crater in the planet's surface. (Image credit: Andrzej Wojcicki via Getty Images) Hidden below the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the Chicxulub crater marks the impact site of an asteroid that struck Earth...
(if you'll excuse the pun) example is found in the Chicxulub region of the Yucatán Peninsula. Mexico, where an asteroid thought to be between 6.2 to 9.3 miles (10 and 15 kilometers) wide struck the Earth slicing a 6.2 mile-wide (10 kilometer-wide) scar into the surface of the ...