Written by James Edward Kamis
Volcanism, primarily ocean floor in nature, is the most feasible and plausible cause of recent alterations to the Bering Sea physical and biological systems, not climate change.
Written by Dr Benny Peiser
A new publication from the Global Warming Policy Foundation reviews the impact of wind energy on the environment and finds that it is already doing great harm to wildlife.
Written by Tom Metcalfe
A huge lake of sizzling hot lava has been discovered in a volcano on a remote sub-Antarctic island in the South Atlantic Ocean. It’s only the eighth lake of molten rock ever discovered on Earth.
Written by John Turner B.Sc. Dip. Ed.; M. Ed. (Hons); Grad. Dip. Ed. Studies
Governments are spending vast amounts of taxpayers money on policies designed to control the Earth’s climate. The present concern is the fear of global warming but the initial scientific challenge in the early years of the 19th century was to understand global cooling which the Earth was subjected to during the Ice Ages.
Written by National Geographic
Deadly snow and ice paralyzed Europe in 1709. Anonymous 18th-century painting from the Castello Sforzesco, Milan
In the first months of 1709, Europe froze and stayed that way for months. People ice-skated on the canals of Venice, church bells broke when rung, and travelers could cross the Baltic Sea on horseback.
Written by Dr Klaus L E Kaiser
As reported by WalesOnline, there is a large mineral-laden rock, dubbed 16-Psyche, orbiting the sun, ready to be captured, mined, and anything else you might want to do with it.
Written by Amy Furr
Scientists are estimating that California has an 11 percent chance of experiencing another earthquake in the coming weeks.
Written by Jeremy R. Hammond
Facebook has unveiled a new “Fact-Checker” feature that’s now being used to supposedly combat misinformation about vaccines, but which is actually being used to propagandize. A “Fact-Checker” showing up on a popular video by Del Bigtree, host of the show The HighWire, claims that the video is presenting false information.
Written by Kelly Malcom, University of Michigan
In the past few years, thrill-seekers from Hollywood, Silicon Valley and beyond have been travelling to South America to take part in so-called Ayahuasca retreats.
Their goal: to partake in a brewed concoction made from a vine plant Banisteriopsis caapi, traditionally used by indigenous people for sacred religious ceremonies. Drinkers of Ayahuasca experience short-term hallucinogenic episodes many describe as life-changing
Written by www.presstv.com
NASA says it is finally opening up the vault containing untouched samples from the Apollo missions to the Moon, some three months after it granted nine teams of experts the unique chance of studying the extraterrestrial rock samples.
Written by Michael Snyder
Over the next several weeks, our planet will have a close encounter with the Taurid meteor swarm. It will be the closest that we have been to the center of the meteor swarm since 1975, and we won’t have an encounter this close again until 2032.
Written by University of Copenhagen
Discussions on global warming often refer to ‘global temperature.’ Yet the concept is thermodynamically as well as mathematically an impossibility, says Bjarne Andresen, a professor at The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.
Written by Sharon Kirkley
“The search for a better animal model to stimulate human disease has been a ‘holy grail’ of biomedical research for decades,” Yale University researchers write in a new book on the science and ethics of chimeras.
The monkeys in Douglas Munoz’s Kingston lab look like other monkeys.
They socialize and move around and eat and drink in the same way. They don’t fall over or stagger around. In fact, the only thing separating the macaques from their unaltered lab mates is the elevated level of a specific human protein implanted inside their brains — proteins that accumulate in the brains of humans with Alzheimer’s disease.
Written by Kevin Keane
New mapping has been carried out of hidden underground valleys around Scotland.
The British Geological Survey (BGS) has published data it hopes other geologists will study to help develop their understanding.
They said work now needs to be done to find out what is in the valleys.
Written by John O'Sullivan
I met Christopher Booker briefly at the Climate Fools Day Event at the UK Houses of Parliament in 2010 and was struck by his humility and keen eye for detail. Having followed his work for a decade, it was very saddening to learn of his death.
Written by Matt Agorist
The latest numbers from the CDC on the flu vaccine show that this year’s shots were only 9% effective against the current strain that popped up mid-season.
Every year, the Centers for Disease Control releases its data on how effective the flu vaccine has been for the previous season, and nearly every year, the numbers are disappointing.