Eight people along the Florida coast are lucky to be alive after their 28-foot boat sank in the Gulf of Mexico, triggering a crew from the Coast Guard to perform an aerial rescue operation. The Coast Guard said the incident happened Saturday about 40 miles west of Southwest Florida. Rescuers originally received a distress call about the … Read more
GALVESTON, Texas – A ferocious storm that struck a cruise ship while in the Gulf of Mexico Friday left at least one cabin flooded as torrential rains poured down. Royal Caribbean’s Voyager of the Seas first encountered hail as the ship was heading back to its home port of Galveston, Texas. Video from a passenger … Read more
In August 1990, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein invaded is far-smaller neighbor, Kuwait — seizing the nation’s valuable oil fields and setting off a global scramble to rein in his imperialistic ambitions. As a global military coalition began to form to oust Hussein from Iraq, his invasion set off a spike in oil trading and prices … Read more
New research warns that the collapse of air currents intertwined with the Gulf Stream could happen as soon as 2025, leaving “severe impacts on the climate in the North Atlantic region.” In addition to freezing temperatures brought to the northern hemisphere, the buckling would also bring erratic rain and droughts across the world, Politico reported. … Read more
A 4-foot long American eel — about as large as the endangered species can grow — was found washed up on the Gulf Coast of Texas. The director of the University of Texas Mission-Aransas Reserve found the creature on the shoreline and posted his discover in a Facebook video. “This is like basically as big … Read more
Monkeypox infections continue to rise across much of the Bay Area, with nearly 100 cases diagnosed in six counties in the region as of Wednesday, marking a national trend as vaccine supplies loom large to cope with the growing global outbreak. substantially less. Regarding the dwindling supply of vaccines from the federal government, UC Berkeley … Read more