In the News

The ozone hole above the Arctic has got the doomsayers red around the ears. It is the subject of reports at www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/72206/title/Record_Arctic_ozone_mini... and www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110405102202.htm 'Record

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/72214/title/Arctic_Ocean_hosts_wierd... which is caused by rivers emptying from Siberia into the Arctic Ocean in combination with the sea ice that accumulates there during the

At www.physorg.com/print221195120.html ... it seems oil geologists are looking seriously at Greenland for untapped reserves of the black sticky substance. As can be expected the

NASA and JPL Caltech say they have found the presence of liquid water in Comet Wild2 - but comets are supposed to be so cold

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/04/claim-nuclear-tests-stopped-global... - one of the bugbears to global warming theory is the fact the earth cooled from the 1940s to the late 1970s -

At www.jurassiccoast.com/380/the-coast-uncovered-30/geo-highlights-226/ches... ... the Jurassic Coast was featured in BBC TVs Countrywise April 5th 2011 - and Chesil Beach was pictured and discussed. I had

At http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=earth-atmosphere-format... December 2009 ... Krypton trapped in earth's mantle may not have been captured from the Sun - as models predict. It seems to

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/72081/title/Supersized_superbunny/ ... this is another example of Mediterranean islands becoming home to dwarfism and gigantism. See earlier posts on this subject - such as

A fossil member of the Ranunculae flowering plant family, which includes buttercups, marsh marigolds and water crowfoot, among others, has been found in volcanic ash

At www.indystar.com/print/article/20110320/LOCAL01/103200369/Genius-work-12... ... a twelve year old maths whizzkid has worked out the universe could not have been formed by the Big Bang. Its all

At www.vancouversun.com/story_print.html?id=4542566&sponsor= is a report on a huge midden of the Musqueam people who lived for generations on the estuary of what is now the

Some exciting science at www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12911806?print=true ... GOCE, the Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer, is onboard a satellite launched in 2009 and moves around

Sparked by the same article as my post on March 31st, EM Smith at http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/where-did-the-grand-canyon-go/ asks an intriguing question. The aforesaid article says the Colorado

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110330131306.htm scientists have been finding out why it is cold in NE America but not in NW Europe at the same latitude (a paper

At BBC News (see www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12888421 ) there is a story on early Christian writings found in a Jordanian cave which it is hoped will provide

At www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/03/2011/maya-farming-on-the-edge/ anad at www.uc.edu/news/NR.aspx?id=13335 the web site of the University of Cincinatti. Researchers have been trying to fathom why the Maya built their bustling

At http://geology.com/articles/age-of-the-grand-canyon.shtml is an article 'How Old is the Grand Canyon?' which describes some of the conventional thinking on how long it would take a

NASAs Messenger spacecraft is now in orbit around Mercury and has returned the first image of the planet. Altogether some 360 + images have been

The Daily Telegraph of March 15th 2011 had a report on a National Geographic Channel film screened in the US and promoted by Professor Richard

In Current World Archaeology 46 April 2011 ... an article on the Mursi people of the Lower Omo Valley in SW Ethiopia, mention is made