In the News

At http://spaceweather.com/ (August 14th, 2015) ... sprites on steroids were seen above hurricane Hilda, gigantic lets of lightning leaping into space. Go to the site

At http://phys.org/print358679794.html ... we have one of those classic model studies that claim they have produced a 'cutting edge statistical analysis' which shows humans were

At http://phys.org/print358674638.html ... German scientists are questioning another consensus theory, and another important piece of geological thinking. It seems the break up of the continents

A study, just published in the journal Science (August, 2015) has been looking at the circulation of water in the Arctic Ocean and Nordic seas

Enoshima is an island at the mouth of a river on Japan's coast about 40 miles SE of the capital, Tokyo. Kokei, a Buddhist monk

In the latest issue of Down to Earth magazine (issue 92, August 2015, ISSN 0969-3408) we have part 3 on the Irish chalk formation near

An interesting piece popped up at http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/summer-2015/article/australo-melane... ... which seems to take a swing out of the Out of Africa theory (but then it turns

  the comet is now at perihelion and is releasing permanent outflows and jets of material - see http://phys.org/print358492091.html ... and the general appearance of

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/bronze-age-trackway... .... and the beach in question was near Cleethorpes, a seaside resort (highly popular before the package holidays to Spain and Portugal). A

The controversial Toronto political commentator Mark Steyn has written part one of a new book, 'A Disgrace to the Profession' - and if you like

Another interesting web site (or blog) you might want to look at - http://linguacatastrophica.blogspot.co.uk There is another one, a sort of forum set up or

At www.livescience.com/9771-mamm oths-alive-thought.html .... it seems mammoths may not have gone extinct in the Late Pleistocene (Younger Dryas Boundary) after all. Pockets of them may

At www.hurriyetdailynews.com/unearthed-hittite-artifacts-in-istanbul-break-... ... the title of this piece is a question mark - Hittites or Hurrians? It begins by saying objects of the Hurrian civilisation

At http://phys.org/print358144586.html .... the end of Permian extinction event resulted in the demise of 90 per cent of marine life. It is thought that ocean

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/excavations-reveal-... ... a drainage tunnel, or ancient sewer, several hundred metres in length runs from near the Siloam Pool in Jerusalem, on the slopes

At www.livescience.com/51789-lightning-warps-rocks-atoms.html ... the researchers that found lightning was capable of altering rocks went to great trouble, slicing a sample to produce a sliver to

At http://phys.org/print358435621.html ... we get a flavour of how geological deep time affects interpretations of data regarding rocks and geochronology (how long a certain formation

At http://phys.org/print358435481.html ... an important new study on diatom blooms in the ocean   and whilst this only concerns the Southern Ocean (for the moment)

  At www.spaceweather.com August 11th .. it seems that for 4 days now the Earth has been inside a stream of fast moving solar wind.

At http://phys.org/print358186778.html .... a few weeks ago we learnt that solar scientists had changed the way they recorded sun spot number and there was some