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At http://phys.org/print304594532.html ... some new discoveries on foraminifera, the tiny shells of sea creatures such as plankton that are an important prop of Ice Age

At http://phys.org/print304596241.html ... (the same story is at http://wattsupwiththat.com and has hundreds of comments to wade through) but basically we learn that methane is bubbling

I've just heard there was a solar flare on the Sun, and it is heading in the direction of Comet ISON. In order to keep

Changing sea levels, or a reconfiguration of the oceans, are sometimes to be found in the most surprising of places. Anyone holidaying in Shropshire, about

At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/methane-myopia-7-miles-mathis/ ... we have a link to somebody also criticising mainstream's treatment of methane - go to http://milesmathis.com/meth.pdf Tim Cullen notes that within ice

At http://phys.org/print304333656.html ... a dust ring in the orbit of Venus has been confirmed. This appears to be related to the cloud of dust we

We know it was smaller in the Medieval Warm Period otherwise Scandinavian farmers would not have colonised the edges of the ice sheet and therefore

Are the politicos getting cold toes and hopping around on one leg - which way to put the foot down, backwards or forwards. This comes

I've just watched a Channel 4 TV documentary on the Hanging Gardens of Nineveh, Sunday 24th of November, in which an Oxford University researcher has

At http://phys.org/news/2013-11-ancient-giant-sloth-bones-humans.html ... a paper in 'Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences' concerns an investigation in Uruguay at a bone bed. Humans are

At http://phys.org/print304250664.html ... a fascinating piece on ocean life cycles and sampling a cup full of sea water. A glass of water from the oceans

The Ice Cube laboratory is a neutrino observatory where the detectors are buried a mile under the surface of Antarctica. They claim to have found

Tim Cullen turns his attention to the Leonids - go to http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/11/24/astral-karma-the-leonids/ ... and the source of this meteor shower is Comet Tempel Tuttle (which

Tim Cullen has been looking at the role of methane in space science - and in the politikking of CAGW. He claims this is 'another

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-11/uoc-asg112013.php ... a skeleton of an individual dated around 24,000 years ago, at the height of the Late Glacial Maximum (LGM) was found at

At http://phys.org/print304107315.html ... Comet ISON spreads its wings - two wing like features have appeared resembling the letter U (so we have a tail plus

Another story from the Daily Mail - see www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2509971/Are-PSYCHIC-scientists-b... ... which suggests sixth sense (which we may very well possess) is a psychic power ...

At www.livescience.com/41143-city-found-under-canaanite-city.html ... archaeologists have unearthed a city beneath a Canaanite city - in Israel. This is how the story is presented, as if this

Well, three to be exact - see http://phys.org/print304250622.html The European Space Agency (EPA) are putting three satellites into orbit, each the size of a small

At http://phys.org/print304227456.html ...                                                             a new island has formed at the back end of the Ogasawara chain to the south of Japan. Volcanic activity has