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Why are Greenpeace and the WWF silent on the abuse of the ecosystem in Venezuela - or the ill treatment of the indigenous tribes in

At http://spaceweather.com/ (June 25th 2018) there is a nice image of noctilucent clouds over Meghara in Co Derry. It was taken by Martin McKenna who

Sent in by Gary. At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5869657/Hellish-atmosphere-Venus... .... researchers used computer simulation to model the atmosphere of Venus. A Japanese satellite, Akatsuki, witnessed a bow shaped

At https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2018/06/22/late-paleocene-thermal-maximum/ ... here we have a catastrophic event that has been apprehended by climate scientists in order to create a scare story over CAGW.

   .... this image comes courtesy of http://spaceweather.com (June 23rd 2018) a sprite above a thundercloud taken by a pilot flying to Las Vegas from

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/p-stf061318.php ... continuing study of the ice amn found in a melting glacier in the Alps a few years ago has found a different

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/06/20/study-bugs-hate-light-at-night-mo... ... the reason this has popped up on WattsUp is the fact that the researchers claim light pollution is a bigger factor than

 a nice interesting article at https://popular-archaeology.com/article/new-technique-provides-accurate-... ... a new technique provides an accurate dating method as far as ancient bones are concerned. As migration has

Also sent in by Jovan - go to www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-builds-for-a-new-kind-of-neu... .... the article itself is available to read at the pre-porint arXiv server but the authors

This one was sent in by Jovan - go to www.livescience.com/62754-warring-clans-caused-population-bottleneck.html .... males genes across Asia, Europe and Africa seem to suggest something peculiar happened

At http://spaceweather.com (June 20th 2018) we have frozen lightning spotted over Scotland (the island of Lewis to be exact). These are noctilucent clouds - ethereal

Another story that won't go away - the moon and water. At https://phys.org/print448192072.html ... Japanese scientists have found the mineral mogonite in a lunar meteorite

At https://phys.org/print448179407.html ... large scale whale hunting goes back to the 6th century AD we are told, according to a new study in the European

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/06/14/good-news-99-989-of-the-antarctic... ... this is a bit of taking the Michael. Climate Change alarmists are telling us, via the media and a recently published paper,

Sent in by Jovan. At www.scientificamerican.com/article/mystery-of-earths-missing-nitrogen-so... ... mainstream considered nearly all the nitrogen ins soils came directly from the atmosphere, sequestered by microbes and dissolved

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180604151150.htm ... the preservation of flies in mud on Greenland show that two interglacial periods witnessed a warming of the climate close to the

Storms and lightning over central Europe produced a spectacular display of sprites - see http://spaceweather.com (11th June 2018). Some 250 sprites were seen in just

At https://phys.org/print447399984.html ... dinosaur age marine fossils have been found in the middle of Australia - hundreds of miles from the sea. They are micro-organisms

This story comes from NASA but is pretty widespread on the blogs - see for example https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/06/organic-molecules-found-on-mars-mit-... .... Curiosity Rover found organic material on Mars

At https://phys.org/print447402256.html ... we are told it takes 120 million years for a slab of anicent sea floor to subduct to a sufficient distance into