Finally, there is something cats can do for humans. The Worcester Public Library in Worcester, Mass., announced that through the end of March, people who have lost or damaged a book or other borrowed items can bring a photograph, drawing, or magazine clipping of a cat, and get their library cards reactivated. The library calls…
A rare and powerful winter storm sweeping the West Coast is battering areas unaccustomed to snow and wintry mix, bringing parts of Portland, Ore., to a halt before moving south toward California. The varied precipitation, ranging from rain to snow to graupel, a slushier version of snow, was met with a mix of distress and…
In 1963, a geophysicist named John Tuzo Wilson proposed that the islands, which are covered with layers of volcanic stone, sit above a magma plume, which forms when rock from the deep mantle bubbles up and pools below the crust. This “hot spot” continually pushes toward the surface, sometimes bursting through the tectonic plate, melting…
Yellowstone National Park employees led 10,000 visitors to safety this week as storms washed away roads and bridges, while nearby residents escaped as their homes were battered by mudslides and flooding brought on by record rainfall and melting snow. Billings, a southern Montana city home to nearly 120,000 people, asked residents to conserve water after…