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At https://phys.org/print406804023.html ... scientists, we are told, are in the process of making an image of a black hole. It seems a black hole cannot

At https://risk-monger.com/issues/agriculture/beegate/ ... we have an exposure on the great bee catastrophe - colony collapse disorder amongst honey bee populations. It has long since been

Interesting post on lightning under the ground and how it might affect geological features at the surface - see www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2017/02/16/the-maars-of-pinacate-part-two/ ... or to think about.

You've heard of Atlantis (sinking into the sea) and Gondwanaland, even perhaps the lost island continent of Mu - now we have Zealandia - see

NASAs Dawn space mission has found evidence for organic material on asteroid (or dud comet) Ceres - see https://phys.org/print406465509.html ... the material was detected near

An American Pie might imply a mixture of fillings. Whilst this is obviously true of the last couple of hundred years, to be sure, it

New paper by a couple of academic climate scientists from Australia and Sweden is given a going over at https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/02/13/claim-0-7c-century-is-exceptional/ ... but read the comments

This story was at Dr Wile's blog a way back. At https://phys.org/print405956660.html ... dinosaurs are mostly known from fossilised bone but last year palaeontologists claimed

The journal of New Concepts in Global Tectonics continues to publish the kind of earth science other journals do not touch. It's a bit like

This sounds very much like a regurgitation of a post from a couple of years ago - a bit of botanical doom mongering by the

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/monumental-buildin... ... Qantir, the ancient city of Pi-ramesse, is affected by urban growth. This has hastened some archaeology in the areas most prone to

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2017/02/spectacular-star-cluster-reveals-e... ... a spectacular star cluster reveals elusive black holes hiding inside a dense cluster of stars. Watch the video of the black hole

A different perspective on the Channelled Scablands can be found in Charles Warren Hunt, 'Environment of Violence', Polar Publishing of Calgary:1990. CW Hunt is still

Seems like Fred Hoyle, in the 1980s, also thought that earth's water could have been locked up in minerals in the early earth. There is

Continuing the theme of today, Wikipedia having the hubris to accuse another fake news outlet of ... faking the news. We have another example (sure

At https://phys.org/print405677744.html ... a binary star system has been identified as an elusive white dwarf pulsar ... the first of its kind seen by astronomers.

At https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/08/massive-ancient-unde... ... and here we have another fake news media outlet, and surely so as they are leaders in exaggerating the effects of CAGW

Also at the fake new Daily Mail we have another interesting story - go to www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4201396/Were-WAVES-blame-great-d... ... which picks up on a story repeated at

Gary sent in this link - www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4201328/Study-identifies-cause-s... ... on the day after Wikipedia banned the Daily Mail claiming it was a source of fake news.

At https://phys.org/print405675862.html ... we learn there was what is thought to be advanced solar activity smack bang in the middle of the Mid Holocene Warm