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At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-extreme-seas-uk-ireland.html ... all that solar activity, CMEs battering our magnetosphere and leaking into the upper atmosphere, seems to have had an effect on the

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-tonga-hunga-eruption-intense-lightning.html ... the January 2022 eruption of the Hunga volcano in Tonga continues to break records. It is now recognised it created a 'super-charged'

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/electrifying-time-lapse-image-captures-165506515.html ... time lapse image captures 100 lightning bolts torching the sky over Turkey. The phenomena was captured by astro-photographer

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-demystify-unusual-geminids-meteor-shower.html ... the claim is that most meteor showers are created when a comet emits a tail of ice and dust = a degassing

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-walls-river-nile-reveal-ancient.html ... a huge network of stone walls along the River Nile,  in both Egypt and Sudan, reveal a long lived form of hydraulic

The upcoming El Nino is the focus of a report at https://phys.org/news/2023-06-el-nio-backthat-good-news.html ... but is it good news for all of us. The piece goes

During the last Ice Age, presumably the Late Glacial Maximum, massive ice bergs calved from the northern ice sheet and caused the weather in North

At https://spaceweather.com - over the last week or two of early June 2023 we have had solar bubbles puffing up the face of the Sun.

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-didnt-big-collapse-giant-black.html ... why didn't the Big Bang collapse into a giant black hole? It is thought the latter are the remnants of a massive

William sent in this one. Britain fires up coal power station because of the hot weather - see https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/britain-fires-coal-plant-weather-185612922.html ...  it seems the National Grid

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-seismic-convey-lithospheric-delamination-mechanism.html ... use of  seismic body waves in the South China lithosphere found anomalies which could be interpreted as lithospheric blocks at 90 km

This was an intriguing story, particularly as it seemed to upset the applecart of evolution by gradual progression, but also by reason nobody in the

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-jet-streams-mars-magnetosheath.html ... just like the earth, mars has jet streams - in the magnetosheaf. It is faster and denser than its surroundings. .................................. UFOs

Explosion in space, the consensus view of supernova and novae in general - see https://phys.org/news/2023-06-average-space-explosion-baseline-array.html ... the research was based on a telescope array, VLBA,

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-roadblocks-limits-geoscientists-alaska-denali.html ... this link concerns the Denali fault that arcs across Alaska to neighbouring Yukon. It is thought to be responsible for raising the

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-lingering-effects-neanderthal-dna-modern.html ... recent discoveries show that Neanderthal genes comprise up to 4 per cent of the genome of modern humans. They add, who migrated

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-parker-solar-probe-flies-fast.html ... the Parker solar probe flies into a jet of fast solar wind. It encountered streams of high energy particles that match the

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-lost-giants-reveals-decline-abundance.html ... the diversity  and abundance of elephants in Africa was much greater in the past. Using fossil evidence a new study looks at

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-el-nino-early-big-sloppy.html ... as the media gots overheated at the prospect of an upcoming El Nino event we might like to ponder on why it

At https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2023/06/06/how-big-was-carringtons-sunspot/ ... the story starts off by having a joke at the expense of the so called fact cherckers. Ask Chat GPT how big