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This is not really a climate change story but a geological one. One subject beloved of alarmists is sea level rise - coasts will be

Young is a bit open to interpretation here, as young in the eyes of astronomers can be quite a long time ago. William sent in

Sent in by William - https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-asteroids-strike-earth-since-age-of-dino... ... and also https://phys.org/print266934601.html ... which is an interesting story in that since 290 million years ago asteroid strikes

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/afot-tau011419.php ... supermassive black holes are, well, super massive. They are thought to exist at the heart of all galaxies - but how do

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/01/13/what-are-the-implications-for-cli... ... an interesting point made by climate scientist Tim Ball - what are the implications from climate of recent north magnetic pole activity?.

At http://spaceweather.com (13th January 2019) ... the image below was taken in New Hampshire in the US - colourful lights above a snow covered landscape

A quarry near the Dutch town of Winterswijk has many fossils of marine reptiles - many of them with a surprising amount of bone material

At https://phys.org/print466333233.html ... trilobite fossils are common to all parts of the world, northern and southern hemispheres. They dominated the early seas.    ...   Trilobites

At https://phys.org/print466332404.html ... a Japanese research team has identified a giant streak structure amongst the clouds covering Venus. They aqlso modelled the origins of the

On January 8th asteroid 2019AS5 flew past the Earth - just 8600km above the surface. Nine hours afterwards, the asteroid was discovered, by the Mount

At https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31356229  ... we learn that a huge canyon on Iceland was created by a few days of catastrophic flooding. The Jokulsargljufur canyon is 28

Gary sent in the link www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech.article-6555999/ ... how climate change caused the world's first empire to collapse - which is derived from the US magazine

At https://phys.org/print465661093.html ... a study claims the Sahara desert swings between lush and arid every 20,000 years, a cynchronism with monsoon activity. This old chestnut

At https://astrobites.org/2019/01/02/growing-once-growing-twice-or-three-times ... an open access article at the arXiv portal has an interesting contribution. It suggests the universe has undergone more than one phases

This one comes courtesy of Anne-Marie de Grazia. At www.q-mag.org/neolithic-avant-garde-village-in-israel-drowned-by-tsunami... ... we are told that around 8000BC sea levels rose enought to re-establish a link

Sent in by Gary. At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6546689/Humans-NOT-rats-blame-sp... ... where we learn that research by Oslo University into an outbreak of bubonic plague in Glasgow back in

The flyby by New Horizons, zooming past Ultima Thule, has got a lot of people excited, and on the same day we have the Chinese

At https://www.electricuniverseuk.eu/videos/ ... your chance to view a couple of videos on the SAFIRE project. You can also buy or rent videos of all the

William sent in the links. Go to https://eos.org/article/huge-global-tsunami-followed-dinosaur-killing-as... ... huge global tsunami followed the dinosaur killing asteroid impact - with waves up to 1500m high.

At http://notrickszone.com/2018/12/24/the-discovery-of-tree-stumps-under-gl... ... this is a really important discovery in Russia - the discovery of tree stumps dating back between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago,