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The location of the tree line is largely controlled by summer temperatures and growing season length. However, conifer trees have 'not yet recolonised many areas

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190411101735.htm ... driving a wedge into historic gaps in climate science. In this instance, Hokkaidu University in Japan has found the Beaufort Sea, on

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190411101824.htm ... ancient Texas was a Serengeti savannah with animals such as elephant, rhinoceros and alligators etc. During the 1930s unemployed Texans were recruited

William has sent in a link to Thunderbolts - on the black hole image. Thunderbolts reply and claim the ring of lighyt with a dark

Paul Reich has only just had his paperback version of up to the minute genetics published and he is already out of date it would

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7369 (April 2019) ... new observations indicate auroras on Jupiter are heating the planet's atmosphere - and that it is a rapid response to

Not sure if this is worth posting as it amounts to some angst. I don't for one moment think most people take diagrams of fracking

At https://astronomynow.com/2019/04/10/virtual-telescope-captures-first-dir... ... we are told that after years of observation and data analysis an international team of astronomers have capture images of a massive

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/ru-bmt032019.php ... bacteria may travel thousands of miles through the air, globally. Press release from Rutgers University on a study published in the Philosophical

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news/php ... a few days ago (see also www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190328170639.htm ... and https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/cassini ...). NASAs Cassini mission has found Saturn's rings coat tiny moons -

The K/T boundary vent is back in the news - see www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190329144223.htm ... in the aptly named Hell Creek formation in North Dakota we have

William sent this one in. As we await the pubication of the Tall el-Hammam destruction event we might get some idea of what it might

Robert sent in the link to https://crev.info/2019/03/soft-tissue-in-biggest-ever-cambrian-fossil-bo... ... which provides the Creationsit view of the latest discoveries. As expected they look sceptically at uniformitarian interpretations

At https://phys.org/print472811618.html ... ancient rubbish mounds reveal a 6th century AD episode of climate change affecting a Byzantine town site in what is now Israeli

Keeping to the theme of tunnels, William forwarded a link but see www.atlasobscura.com/places/permafrost-tunnel/ ... a frozen tunnel in central Alaska was dug out by the

At https://www.earthtouchnews.com/discoveries/discoveries/these-giant-tunne... ... strange smooth walled tunnels cutting into rock faces in Brazil and Argentina have long been a puzzle to locals. You can even

At https://phys.org/print472815059.html ... what before Big Bang is the title of this piece. The idea is to test inflation of the universe theory after Avi

Strange in the sense that asteroids are not thought to be active - even if that activity is like a sleeping man periodically letting out

Sent in by William - see www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2019/03/18/the-hundred-years-war-the-fires-of-t... ... is a guest post by Peter Mungo Jupp who runs the Ancient Origins web site. Around AD1348

At https://phys.org/print472465406.html ... researchers at the University of Nottingham have found a higher percentage of natural fibres in freshwater habitats and in the atmosphere (in