Nature

The folks in San Antonio, Texas got quite a treat earlier this month when an unexplained fireball, or rather something that looked like a fireball streaked across the midday sky.

Between 10 and 18 tornadoes ripped through the Dallas area on Tuesday. Homes were destroyed, vehicles were tossed around like rag dolls and residents frantically sought shelter. And many folks captured the wreckage on their video cameras and phones.

A group of students from Yale University have discovered a species of fungi in the Amazon that eats the common plastic polyurethane. And, what's more, Pestalotiopsis microspora can nosh on plastic even in an oxygen-free environment, which makes it perfect to survive in a landfill. There you go! Earth's waste management problem has just been solved! (Not really, but it's a start.)

Capturing a natural disaster on a video camera or cellphone is one thing, but to see one through the objective and unassuming eye of a security camera is another altogether.

Two water skiers got quite a shock when a bolt of lightning came down from the partly blue sky and struck the water near them. The water skier being filmed didn't seem to notice it, so he won't realize how close a call he had until he sees the video. Maybe that'll teach them not go out on a lake in the midst of a storm.

Tornadoes wreaked havoc in the middle parts of the US on Friday, killing 39 people in five states. Storms of this force and magnitude can strike in an instant, and typically the only thing you can do if you find yourself in the deadly storm's crosshairs is hope you are able to get to a storm cellar. However, one woman in the West Liberty, Kentucky area decided to take on a tornado head on with pra

To capture these stunning long-exposure images of star trails in the Australian night sky, photographer Lincoln Harrison had to endure a grueling 15-hour shoot in freezing conditions. (Yup, it really does get cold at some point in Australia.) But we'd say the end result was well worth the effort.

Nature's force is at times awe-inspiring, but often downright scary. A woman in West Liberty, Kentucky experienced this first hand when she captured footage of a huge tornado heading towards her direction.

Photos of the Earth taken from space are nothing new, but you've never seen the planet like this before, guaranteed. Dubbed "Blue Marble," this NASA photo is a staggering 64-megapixels with an 8000 x 8000 resolution.

You’ve probably let it sneak up on you again. You’ve been so busy getting back to work and shaking off those winter blues that you almost forgot January 10th is Houseplant Appreciation Day. This is not a day that should go unnoticed. The green thumbs at The Gardener’s Network established Houseplant Appreciation Day to remind people about their indoor botantical buddies after the rush of the holida

Frankincense, the aromatic resin that is used in numerous religious and traditional ceremonies, as well is in medicines and perfumes, may be going extinct.

Every year, Mother Nature likes to remind us who’s the boss and 2011 was no different. In fact, it was the second most expensive year on record for insurers, costing $108 billion. Here’s a look back at the 10 most memorable natural disasters of 2011 in chronological order....

We've all been to concerts where the band rocked so hard it was as if the ground shook below us. However, how many bands have actually rocked our world, that have, well, actually rocked our world? This past week in New Zealand the Foo Fighters rocked so hard they actually registered on a seismic scale. Geological tremors were read by stations near the stadium and the "strong low frequency&quo

For the past two years, videographer Tom Lowe has been shooting footage of the American Southwest for his upcoming ultra-HD time lapse feature film 'TimeScapes.' The new trailer has just been released online, and the footage Lowe has captured of both our planet's natural and man-made beauty will make you proud to call Earth home.

To promote the 190th anniversary of the chronograph watch, German luxury good's maker Montblanc asked filmmakers to submit one second videos of what they found beautiful. This video features 60 of those moments (for the sixty seconds in a minute.) Watch gorgeous little moments captured for a brief moment below.