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If the Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands were toerupt, it would send a giant tsunami wave towards the Atlantic Coast of the U.S. The eruption would cause a landslide that wouldgenerate a wave with energy equivalent to 6 months of U.S. electricity use.

Researchers Simon Day and Steven Ward say this will be an exceptionally large tsunami, traveling great distances at high speeds. As soon as Cumbre Vieja collapses, a huge dome of water will move underwater, producing a “wave train” pattern of crests and troughs. This tsunami will hit parts of Africa, Brazil, Florida and the Caribbean. A day later, the wave will reach London, then hit Spain, Portugal and France.
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University of Arizona senior Greg Cranwell was walking on campus when, he says, “I was looking down at the flagstone and thought I saw something. I was unsure but I thought ‘what’s it going to hurt if I just look?'” He found he was walking on 270 million-year-old footprints. He says, “I ran to the campus president and told her that we needed to get this thing out immediately and she said that with a little more convincing she would have the slab pulled.”

Ashley Nowe writes in the Arizona Daily Wildcat that Cranwell spent hours looking at photographs of the ancient footprints, comparing them with documented fossil tracks. “It was like comparing apples and oranges,” he says. “It doesn’t take a genius to know if the prints match or not.”
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The Earth has been warmer since 1980 than it was at any time in the last 2,000 years. Scientists have reconstructed past climates from ice cores and tree rings, and say this is proof that human activities are changing our weather. U.K. researcher Philip Jones says, “It just shows how dramatic the warming has been in recent years. You can’t explain it in any other way?it’s a response to a build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.”
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U.S. astronomers are warning of a possible asteroid collision with the Earth in 2014. They’ve discovered a large, fast-approaching asteroid that could hit the earth on March 21st of that year?but the chances of it happening are almost one in a million.

The rock measures approximately two thirds of a mile across, which is one-tenth the size of the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, and it’s traveling at a speed of about 20 miles per second. It’s been labeled “2003 QQ 47.” Astronomer Christine McGourty says, “In theory, such an asteroid could cause devastation across an entire continent.”
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