Author - The Durango Herald

Natural disasters hit Okla. all too frequently

WASHINGTON – Many states get hit frequently with tornadoes and other natural catastrophes, but Oklahoma is Disaster Central. The twister that devastated Moore, Okla., was the 74t...

DATE: May 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Are long-sunken World War II ships ‘ticking time bombs’?

Ships that went down in wartime known to contain oil

DATE: May 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Power of Moore tornado dwarfs Hiroshima bomb

WASHINGTON – Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive killer tornado in Moore, Okla. And when they did, the awesome amount of energy released over that city dwarf...

DATE: May 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Report: Feds’ warnings about Sandy were confusing

WASHINGTON – Federal weather forecasts for Superstorm Sandy were exceptionally accurate last fall, but the warnings themselves were confusing, an internal review found. The gigant...

DATE: May 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

CO2 record illustrates ‘scary’ trend

Rising levels concern experts

DATE: May 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Billions of cicadas about to overrun East

WASHINGTON – Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. The insects will arrive in such numbers...

DATE: May 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Federal report cites many causes for bees’ decline

WASHINGTON  A new federal report blames a combination of problems for a mysterious and dramatic disappearance of U.S. honeybees since 2006. The intertwined factors cited i...

DATE: May 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Monkey-see, monkey-do? It’s true

Research shows wild animals follow crowd like humans

DATE: Apr 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

NASA spies planets that seem ideal for life

WASHINGTON – NASA’s planet-hunting telescope has discovered two planets that seem like ideal places for some sort of life to flourish. And they are just the right size and in just the right ...

DATE: Apr 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

China fidgets as cities’ heat rises

Higher readings linked to warming produced by humans

DATE: Apr 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Could global warming cause change in tornado season, too?

OKLAHOMA CITY  With the planet heating up, many scientists seem fairly certain some weather elements such as hurricanes and droughts will worsen. But tornadoes have them stumped. ...

DATE: Apr 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Global warming not cause of U.S. drought, study says

WASHINGTON  Last years huge drought was a freak of nature that wasnt caused by human-made global warming, a new federal science study finds. Scientists say the l...

DATE: Apr 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World