Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet

Ice-Free Peril

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:48:15 CST

Unusually low ice coverage in Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence is leaving mother seals with few places to deliver and feed their pups.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:47:30 CST

An area of disturbed weather over the western Indian Ocean collected into Cyclone Hubert before hitting Madagascar.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:46:45 CST

Intense lightning that regularly illuminates the skies over Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo have disappeared entirely for two months.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:19:13 CDT

A colony of Tasmanian devils found that appears to have immunity to a deadly cancer that has ravaged the animal’s population.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:55:52 CST

Thousands of minor tremors in less than a week rumbled beneath an Icelandic volcano covered by a picturesque glacier.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:55:35 CST

The world’s first ever male twin elephants on record surviving birth welcomed by a cheering crowd Thailand’s Surin province.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:46:26 CDT

Square patterns are separate fields of grapes and other crops along southern Africa’s Orange River as seen from space.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:45:52 CST

A pre-dawn earthquake in east-central Turkey killed 51 people in homes that collapsed while many of the victims were still in bed.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:40:52 CST

The seventh tropical or subtropical storm on record to form in South Atlantic is spawned off southern Brazil.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:30:00 CDT

The world’s hottest and coldest temperatures of the week.