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Sink Holes as big as a skyscraper and as wide as a city street open up on the Arctic sea floor.  See https://www.livescience.com/sinkholes-opening-arctic-seafloor ... there

At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/mystery-of-siberias-giant-exploding-craters-may-finally-be-solved ... this is a subject that has fascinated many people, from geologists to global warmers, and from the guy in the pub to

At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/babylons-ishtar-gate-may-have-a-totally-different-purpose-than-we-thought-magnetic-field-measurements-suggest ... archaeologists made use of the clay bricks at Babylon's Ishtar Gatte to measure the magnetic field to determine the construction date. This

At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/fountains-of-diamonds-that-erupt-from-earths-center-are-revealing-the-lost-history-of-supercontinents ... diamonds, it is thought, reach the surface of the earth during massive volcanic eruptions - as supercontinents break up. In Late Cretaceous,

At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/superstructure-bigger-than-idaho-has-been-growing-on-the-seafloor-by-fiji-since-the-dinosaur-age ... a hguge plateau, or superstructure as it is called at the link, has been growing near Fiji since the Cretaeous period. It

This one will surprise a few. At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/fossils/462-million-year-old-fossilized-eyes-and-brains-uncovered-in-secret-welsh-fossil-site ... in what must have been instantaneous burial and preservation we have a fossil deposit at a

At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/iceland-volcano-situation-in-grindavik-has-become-very-bleak-following-new-eruption ... the Iceland volcano has sparked back into life, once again. Lots of pictures at this link - and many other links on

At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/4000-year-old-wall-found-around-oasis-in-saudi-arabia-likely-defended-against-raids-from-nomads ... a nine mile long wall has been found at the Khaybar Oasis - dating back to around 4000 years ago. It was

At https://www.livescience.com/space/a-big-cosmological-mystery-newfound-cosmic-corkscrew-defies-our-understanding-of-the-universe  ...  astronomers have discovered a cosmic ring - a gigantic  spiral of galaxies and galaxy clusters. It is 1.3 billion light years wide

Putting the 'hottest year evah' into perspective - go to https://climatedebate.co.uk/global-temperature/ ... where we are told about different ways of measuring global temperatures produce small

Sent in by Gary ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67940671.amp ... a lost Amazon valley full of settlements, in numbers comparable to the Maya. These lost settlements are in

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/news/astronomers-accidentally-discover-dark-primordial-130045610.html ... but you can read the same story at https://www.sciencealert.com/bizarre-galaxy-discovered-with-seemingly-no-stars-whatsoever ... The galaxy appears to have no stars to

The consensus is that inter glacials occur every 100,000 years, or thereabouts. Not strictly true but never mind. That is the Milankovitch process adopted by

At https://thunderbolts.info/wp/2024/01/01/currents-of-thought-3/ ... is a post by Rens van der Sluijs. In the last issue of C&C Review there was a book review of Stuart

Robert also sent in this link - https://phys.org/news/2024-01-coal-miners-north-dakota-unearth.html ... coal miners in North Dakota unearth a mammoth tusk that had been buried for thousands of

An interesting post at https://spaceweather.com .... archive, January 9th, 2023 ... the polar vortex wobbled in December. This caused a giant band of polar stratospheric

A new article on the Younger Dryas is at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-50074-8 ... an anomalous peak in platinum and Fe rich microspherules together with high temperature minerals

You pick up little things by reading lots of stuff, most of which is not out of the ordinary. In the SEPP newsletter of December

More about the Ice Age mammoth bone structures built around 25,000 years ago. Go to https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/60-mammoths-house-russian-180974426/ ... where we can see what excited the Guardian

Still on the same or a similar theme. At https://www.livescience.com/10340-lost-civilization-existed-beneath-persian-gulf.html ... the key word here is beneath - as in beneath the waters of the