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Disciplinary measures ranging from demotion in rank to court martial are possible for nine US sailors involved in the May spill of 94,000 gallons of JP-5 jet fuel in Virginia, Rear Adm. Jack Scorby said on Friday.

Tropical Storm Cindy made landfall along the US’ Gulf Coast and is now making its way northeast, leaving flooding, strong winds and tornadoes in its wake. But the storm weakened as it went, and has now been downgraded to a Tropical Depression.

It is just two months until the first total solar eclipse in more than 100 years sweeps across the entire continental US, as naturalists, students of the sun and amatuer astronomers scramble to stake out positions from which to observe the rare celestial event.

An Alabama boy has been killed by a log brought ashore by Tropical Storm Cindy, which is climbing the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to make landfall later this week. The 10-year-old boy was struck in the head by the log, which was being carried by a large wave.

A database for forecasting the emergence of rainbows has been established in Zhaosu County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Since the beginning of June, the Russian cities Tomsk and Novosibirsk have been experiencing a ‘butterflypocalipce:’ a phenomenal amount of Black-veined White butterflies have ‘attacked’ Siberian regions. There are so many of them that the ground is almost shaking!

Colonies of fluorescent tropical animals, detected recently off the west coast of the continental US, are rapidly expanding for unknown reasons. These creatures are social as they can exchange light signals with each other and in between their colonies, but overall there is little known about them, and what happens next is a mystery, too.

In a matter of days, the Larsen C ice shelf will crack apart and a gigantic iceberg the size of Delaware will calve into the ocean. This will be the climax of months of anticipation as the crack grew longer and larger.

Areas around the Yellowstone Supervolcano, the largest underground reservoir of magma in the United States, registered a swarm of 230 earthquakes within a week, potentially indicating a violent eruption.

US President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord may very well contribute to more dramatic temperature changes that ultimately threaten the highly sensitive environments in which coffee can thrive.

The air quality in China's major cities was worse in May than the same period last year, due to a sandstorm that swept across much of north China, the environment ministry said Friday.

Scientists at the Institute of Chemical Technologies at the Siberian State Aerospace University (SibSAU) developed a unique sorbent for the removal of oil spills, which is 10 times more effective than its existing analogs.

A silicic cutter and a scraper were found in Moscow during an urban renovation project believed to date back around 7,000–9,000 years, which makes them some of the city’s oldest artifacts to date.

The Center for Biological Diversity said that the US Bureau of Land Management is opening nearly 196,000 acres of public land in the US state of Nevada for fossil fuel development such as fracking.

A group of scientists studying Guam’s coral reef ecosystems has found that although the reefs are suffering as a result of climate change, the damage seen thus far is reversible if necessary measures are taken.

A magnitude 7 earthquake took place off the coast of southern Mexico.

SHENZHEN, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Torrential rain continued Tuesday in Shenzhen after Typhoon Merbok made landfall in the city Monday night, and more than 100,000 people had been evacuated to safety by Tuesday morning.

Moscow Region biologists discovered a black stork's nest; the bird features on the Red List of Threatened Species in Russia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Ukraine and some other countries.

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake on Monday rocked the Greek island of Lesbos, which is located near the coast of Turkey in the Aegean Sea, destroying several buildings, a Sputnik correspondent reported.