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William sent in the link www.yahoo.com/news/massive-storm-brings-lake-tahoes-004653494.html ... a massive storm strikes northern California, which it was claimed, was suffering from a drought induced by climate

Gary sent in the link www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10132641/ ... wildfire and volcanic eruptions ravaged much of what is now Antarctica, in the Late Cretaceous. The location for

At https://phys.org/news/2021-10-ten-mysteries-venus.html ... but what might those ten mysteries be? It depends on who asks the question I suppose but in this instance, it is

That troublesome comet has been at it again. Comet 29P has erupted again [reported by the British Astronomical Association] in another strong outburst. It suddenly

At https://cosmictusk.com/hopewell-comet-airburst-event/ ... these things are coming thick and fast of late. In AD335  a cosmic airburst occurred in North America, during the Hopewell culture

William sent in the link www.yahoo.com/news/193-million-year-old-nesting-ground-105100105.html ... paleontologists found 100 eggs and 80 skeletons from a dinosaur nesting site in Patagonia - or that is

At https://phys.org/news/2021-10-earth-highest-atmospheric-layers-space.html ... the thermosphere is the highest and the hottest atmospheric layer above the earth's surface. The sun heats up this layer according to

William also sent in this link. Art is often in the mind of the individual and it seems Chinese perceptions of art clash with the

At https://phys.org/news/2021-10-humans-woolly-mammoths-extinctclimate.html ... humans have long been one of the mainstream's explanations for the disappearance of the mammoths, and the various other large fauna species

William sent in this link https://www.yahoo.com/news/meteor-incinerated-residents-ancient-city-173... ... around 3600 years ago, a meteor exploded in the air and destroyed the city on the tell of

At https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2021/10/14/volcanic-comet-blows-its-top ... on October 14th Comet 29P blew its top - again. Back in September, it did the same thing - on four occasions.

Sent in by Garys - www.express.co.uk/news/science/1507204/archaeology-breakthrough-analysis... ... it was always something of a mystery, the abandonment of Petra and the end of the Nabateans. Seems

At https://phys.org/news/2021-10-thousand-cosmic-explosions-days.html ... cosmic explosions. known as fast radio bursts, were detected by use of the Five Hundred Metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope - a

Cosmic Tusk has a post on the new study by Ferrin and Orofina [see yesterday] and their take on the Taurid complex. George also provides

William sent in the link - www.yahoo.com/finance/news/energy-crisis-gripping-world-potentially-1203... ... an energy crisis is gripping the world with potentially grave consequences - according to the Washington Post.

Revisionists have issues with C14 as it contradicts their ideas on revising downwards, ancient history. In the November issue of Current Archaeology 380, we have

Writer, social critic, and performance poet are amongst her accomplishments. Ghada has been a political analyst, specialising in geopolitics and socio-political changes in the modern

At https://phys.org/news/2021-10-prior-swarm-large-asteroids-hidden.html ... we were told over a year ago, problem two of three years ago, that NASA was actively looking for big lumps of

At www.sciencealert.com/standing-waves-have-been-found-at-the-edges-of-eart... ... the earth is constantly buffeted by a stream of charged particles, the solar wind. However, the earth does have a mechanism to

Gary also sent in this link - www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10069819/ ... Mars Jezero crater was a lake - estimated 3.7 billion years ago. Until a flash flood