After a 9,000 year slumber, Chile’s Chaitén volcano has awoken in full fury. On May 2nd, the mountain began spewing lava, ash—and lightning.
In what’s known as a “dirty thunderstorm”, rock fragments, ash, and ice particles in the plume collide to produce static charges— just as ice particles collide to create a charge in typical [...]
Normally when someone is hanging around your car, you’d expect it to be a bunch of bored teenagers at the local strip mall. For a motorist in Barrow, Alaska it turned out to be much worse… a cheeky polar bear. With nowhere to run and no time to unlock the door, he used [...]
Imagine traveling through miles and miles of the scorching Peruvian desert, with enormous sand dunes in every direction. You wonder how anything could survive in this god-forsaken wasteland. You’re your throat is parched but you’re out of water. Just when you’re about to give up all hope, before you lies a sight [...]
