Tornadoes Are 100x More Likely Than We Thought, But That’s Good News

Tornadoes Are 100x More Likely Than We Thought, But That's Good News

New research suggests that tornado outbreaks aren’t independent of each other, which in turn means they’re a staggering 100 times more likely than we thought—but that stormy grey cloud may just have a silver lining.

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Physicist Proposes 1,000-Foot Anti-Tornado Walls Across the Midwest

Physicist Proposes 1,000-Foot Anti-Tornado Walls Across the Midwest

When it comes to radical mega-infrastructure projects, we can only dream—but we dream big. Here is one such staggering proposal to build miles and miles of 1,000-foot tall super-walls that will once and forever save Tornado Alley from its eponymous natural disaster.

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Aerial photos reveal the destructive path of the Midwest tornado

Aerial photos reveal the destructive path of the Midwest tornado

Tornadoes ripped through the Midwest of the United States earlier today and the damage it left behind is absolutely tragic. These pictures of Washington, Illinois, the worst area affected, show how a community gets shredded by natural disaster. The path is violent, the ground is scarred and the homes are just gone.

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