Environment

  • Watch a geyser lift a Montreal car into the air

    7/21/11 7:10 AM

    Of all the places to park, this driver had to choose directly over Old Faithful.

  • What is the 'heat index' and why does it matter?

    7/20/11 5:14 AM

    How hot would you think it was if you didn’t know the temperature?

  • This week will be hot, and nasty, and generally wretched

    7/18/11 12:43 PM

    The coming heat wave might bring the worst heat of the entire summer. Or it might not! Meteorologists aren't right all the time.

  • Free Stuff 7/14/11

    7/14/11 2:50 PM

    Arch has passes for "Friends with Benefits". For your complimentary tickets to the special advance screening on Tuesday, July 19 at 7:30pm at Regal Majestic, log onto www.gofobo.com/rsvp and input the following code: NEWS83JZ5 to download your tickets.

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  • Don't get too comfortable with this cooler weather

    7/14/11 7:47 AM

    Temperatures will be more reasonable for a few days, but utter solar hell could be unleashed next week. If you don't believe in hell, feel free to ignore this forecast.

  • The Dust Bowl of 2011? Comparing two U.S. droughts

    7/13/11 8:52 AM

    A dusty, desiccating drought in more than a dozen Southern and Midwest states is causing such harsh trauma to the land and economy that some experts are comparing it to the great Dust Bowl of the 1930s. If you weren't around for the "Dirty Thirties," here's what they looked like.

  • Maryland's state insect, some unknown butterfly, is endangered

    7/12/11 6:18 PM

    This morning brought the alarming news that Maryland's state insect, the Baltimore checkerspot butterfly, is endangered. I'm kidding, of course — not that the butterfly is endangered, which is true. No, what's alarming is that Maryland has a state insect at all. With that in mind, here's a list of all the official flora, fauna, and random stuff — dance, beverage, boat — in that state, and in Virginia.

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  • Tubing at Harpers Ferry: A visual guide to the hazards

    7/12/11 5:03 AM

    From incapacitating Deliverance flashbacks to angry birds defending an island of poop, here's what you need to know about tubing the wild waters of the Potomac.

  • This D.C. park is shaped like a peanut, has nut trees

    7/11/11 2:40 PM

    A peanut-shaped park is coming to Northeast D.C., and yes, there will be actual nuts. It's the second of three such urban parks to be built this year in the U.S. by The Corps Network and Planters, who have wisely left the monocle, cane, and top hat out of their designs.

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