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The drought in some parts of Texas and the southern Plains has dramatically come to an end with huge thunderstorms and lashing rain last weekend

  This is an image of the nature and size of the Rift Valley from a position in Sinai and looking across the Gulf of

At www.spaceweather.com ... the start of the noctilucent cloud season - see below for the view above Scotland   Earth orbiting satellites have been photographing

A paper by Nils-Axel Morner in Energy and Environment, volume 22 No 3 (2011), 'Arctic Environment by the Middle of this century' (being the 21st

At http://westerndigs.org/dice-gaming-utah-cave-prehistoric-gambling/ ... I don't suppose they were gambling for money - but may be for their shirts (or was it who was skinning the

Klaus Schmidt, the archaeologist in charge of the excavations at Gobekli Tepe over the last 20 years or so, has recently died. He was based

At www.warwickhughes.com/icecore/ ... there is a short article on pre-industrial levels of co2 which clearly conflicts with the global warming mantra. Determination of co2 in

An article in Meteoritics and Planetary Science 50 (3) page 368-381 (2015) 'Chelyabinsk, Zond IV, and a possible first century fireball of historical importance' by

Going back some weeks ago on chalk oddities, a chalk outlier near Killarney has caused geologists a few headaches. It is described as enigmatic and

At http://phys.org/print350714260.html ... physicist finds mysterious anti-electron clouds inside a thunderstorm - a totally unexpected outcome of research that involved flying a plane into a

There has been a steady rash of papers over the years that claim ice is receding in the Antarctic - and global warming is afoot,

At www.blacklightpower.com/theory-2/book/ ... there is an abstract of a book written by Dr Randell Mills who favours what he calls the Grand Unified Theory of

Tony, our secretary, has forwarded this link to the continuing research and development of alternative power. It is a video of a 30 minute lecture

At http://phys.org/print350561270.html ... ocean acidification has been ruled out in the wake of the K/T boundary event (the end of Cretaceous extinction event). A paper

A fascinating bit of research at http://phys.org/print350566147.html ... Kelvin-Helmholz waves in the atmosphere form when high speed wind blows over more stagnant air masses. The

At www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2015/5/13/science-is-often-flawed.html ... is an interesting short piece on how science is too often venerated when it should be taken with a pinch of salt

At www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/05/05/scientis... .... at what is called the Space Weather Workshop which took place in Boulder, Colorado, sponsored by NOAA and NASA, there was a

On a high point of Dartmoor an undiscovered, until now, stone circle has been found and is being excavated - see www.guardian.co.uk/science/2015/may/11/highest-stone-circle-in-southern-... Archaeologists are over

Roughly where the city of St Louis is now situated, or not too far short, there was a major native American settlement with monumental architecture

At http://phys.org/print349947893.html ... past tectonic movement in Western Australia is being blamed for coral platforms left high and dry. Apparently, the thinking is that uplift