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The early to mid Holocene is renowned for the Greening of the Sahara and this implies much higher levels of rainfall than in the modern

At https://phys.org/print403944530.html ... Plate Tectonics models are getting more complicated all the time. Apparently, subduction by itself is not enough to explain how it occurs

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/01/16/venus-giant-gravity-wave-disc... ... a massive un-moving structure has been discovered in the upper atmosphere of Venus (see the image below). Over 3 years ago a

I don't really need to say anything on this one as the action is so blatant - a manipulation of regulation to allow Green business

The annual gathering of politicals and upper echelon bureaucrats, captains of industry and finance, and celebrities (such as Hollywood luvvies) in attendance at Davos is

At https://judithcurry.com/2017/01/15/beyond-physics-advanced-biology-and-c... ... is a great post by Clive Hambler, an Oxford lecturer in biology (at Merton college, St Annes, Pembroke, Oriel and Hertford). He

Comprehensive account of the various missions to Venus (American, Russian and Japanese) from the October 2016 issue of Astronomy (kindly forwarded by Jovan Kesic). Go

   At www.thegwpf.com/green-energy-plant-blamed-after-1000-fish die-at-one-of-britains-best-loved-salmon-and-trout-streams/ ... fish along an 8 mile stretch of the River Teifi in western Wales have died as a result of a

At https://archive.is/zSsqZ ... I was looking at the archaeology pages on this web site and flicked on to this page, 'Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironmental Sampling' which

At https://newscientist.com/article/2116446-first-test-of-rival-to-einstein... ... is a science journalistic report of a controversial study that challenges Einstein, in the first instance, and goes on to say dark

The second post today is another dust up with consensus science. At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/india-was-by-no-me... ... India, according to Plate Tectonics theory gradually drifted away from Africa

A good start is provided at www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2017/01/11/plasmoids-are-the-power/ ... which begins - what causes energetic emissions from galactic cores? This is the essence of the black

Gary sent this one in - go to www.astrobio.net/venus/dark-streaks-venus-clouds-microbial-life/ ... a story that comes from the Astrobiology magazine and raises the question of life on

At www.scientificamerican.com/article/atmospheric-rivers-california-megaflo... ... we have a story that has been around the blogosphere all week - with lots of mirth aimed at the California governor

At https://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-short/archaeological-find-puts-hum... ... this concerns the controversial Bluefish Caves in the Yukon where evidence seems to exist to show humans were living in the region

    January 6th in northern Ontario, weird light show. Go to www.livescience.com/57482-light-pillars-photo-ontario.html ... and for some weird geological pictures there is a video show at

A nice cheerful press release at http://phys.org/print403337522.html .... the subject is bioclay, an invention that provokes plants into thinking they are being attacked by pests

At http://phys.org/print403288528.html ... some revelatory facts on how palaeontologists peg fossils on the Tree of Life that you commonly come across in museum displays and

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38561076 ... Japanese scientists have modelled the innards of the Earth and claim that silica exists as 5 per cent of the core. Whilst

A Near Earth Object passed close to the Earth on Monday morning. It was the size of a ten story building but it wasn't noticed