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At http://phys.org/print333876505.html ... in 2029, the asteroid Apophis is due to pass within 35,000km of the Earth - which is fairly close. What effect will

A new paper by John McLean of the James Cook University (Australia), a professor of physics, has appeared in the open access journal Atmospheric and

at www.geocurrents.info/physical-geography/eco-authoritarian-catastrophism-... ... which is a review of a book written by some bigwigs in the Climate Change community and a geography teacher is left

Cave Hill dominates a portion of the landscape in the northern part of Belfast - see Down to Earth magazine issue 89, 2014 (ISSN 0969-3408)

Currently, in 2014, there are active volcanoes in Iceland, Japan. Hawaii, Indonesia and Mexico. In addition the search for the lost Malaysian airliner has revealed

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/10/29/magnetism-and-weather-interconnect... ... is a post by another retired scientist that has upset the Green Blob on a number of occasions, Tim Ball of Canada.

Tim Cullen turns his attention to Ice Age dynamics and some of the absurdities encased in the mainstream mantra - go to http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/geomorphology-bending-the-truth/ ... where

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2014/small-clue-to-neolithi.... ... where we learn about flint mines that dwarf those of Grimes Graves in East Anglia. The flint mines in Bavaria are 8m

  This is an image from Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko taken by the Rosetta spacecraft. Sent in by member Gary Gilligan it shows sand dunes on the

At http://phys.org/print333613144.html ... a paper in Nature Geoscience (Oct 2014) has suggested the origin of Earth's nitrogen rich atmosphere is due to the tectonic forces

At http://phys.org/print333645423.html ... part of a mammoth skull and tusks have been unearthed at a reservoir in Idaho. It is possible an entire skeleton is

At http://phys.org/print333618940.html ... astronomers have found that the accretion discs around young stars also have a magnetic field which is described as a big surprise.

At http://news.yahoo.com/500-old-traces-monster-hawaii-tsunami-discovered-1... ... it is claimed an earthquake in Alaska was responsible in generating a tsunami wave that struck Hawaii in the 15th century AD.

Two articles in Current Biology of October 23rd 2014 both concern Polynesians reaching S America. The first one claims the indigenous Botocundos tribe of Brazil

The Lockheed Fusion project is going well they claim - go to https://cosmosmagazine.com ... (October 24th 2014) are working on a fusion reactor that could

Laurence Dixon supplied the link to this picture of the Stepped Pyramid which has apparently upset UNESCO. Go to www.artdaily.com/news/73106/UNESCO-seeks-answers-from-Egypt-on-more-than... It seems the damage may

At http://phys.org/print333394180.html ... astronomers are looking at strange clouds in the upper atmosphere of Titan, as seen by NASAs Cassini Mission - see also www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php

At www.scientificamerican.com/article/exocomets-around-beta-pictoris/ ... again, this is a piece of French observation and research beginning way back in 1986. The astronomer, Anne-Marie Legrange, and colleagues, witness

At www.q-mag.org/understanding-and-forecasting-solar-eruptions.html ... Anne Marie de Grazia has translated into English some French research in which they have followed the evolution of the solar magnetic

The SIS 2014 Autumn Meeting took place on October 25th, staged at the Quaker Meeting House in Watford, a fine venue. The Quakers, and various