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The Deadly Beauty of Nature

Snow. Storms. Floods. Droughts. The shaking Earth. Erupting volcanoes. Mother Nature sure knows how to throw a tantrum. Despite the deadly nature of, well, nature, these phenomena can actually be beautiful sights to see. Let’s take a look at some amazing photos capturing Mother Nature at her worst — which just happens to occasionally also be at her best. Photo by nasa1fan/MSFC Photo by

Nature’s Wrath: Humans Be Nice!

The human kind is the supreme ruler of the planet Earth. Top of the food chain, the most intelligent and powerful being. We are so full of ourselves that we never stop to think about the consequence. Why should we? We are so mighty that nothing can hurt us! On the other hand these pictures tell a completely different story. Just some examples of nature’s display of its might. Indeed there

6 Extraterrestrial disasters that make us glad we are on Earth

Earth has plenty of natural disasters and tragedies; we have tornadoes that rip up the Midwest yearly, hurricanes that flatten and drown cities, and volcanic eruptions that evacuate entire island nations. But the rest of the solar system is a much harsher place, with disasters that would end life as we know it if they happened here. 1. Volcanoes on Io Volcanoes are a big deal here

Family of four die as giant sink hole swallows their house as they watched ice hockey on TV

The bodies of four members of a family who went missing after their house was swallowed by a gaping sink hole north-east of Montreal have been found, authorities said today. The Prefontaine family was in their basement cheering on ice hockey team the Montreal Canadiens in their Stanley Cup play-off game against the Pittsburgh Penguins when the massive landslide struck on Monday night in the

Nashville flooding in pictures

Cumberland River floods in Tennessee, storms in Kentucky and Mississippi Sections of the downtown area of Nashville are flooded from the waters of the Cumberland River A woman wades through floodwaters on a downtown pavement in Nashville

Earthquake in Chile moved the Earth axis and shortened day!

The 8.8-magnitude Chilean earthquake released so much energy that it may have slightly shortened the length of the Earth's day, a NASA scientist says.Richard Gross, a researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory computed how the Earth's rotation may have been affected by the Feb. 27 quake, which has killed at least 723 people.The JPL computer model suggests that the length of the

Huge landslide in southern Italy