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At www.researchgate.net/publication/349448597_A_global_environmental_crisis... ... geological archives are said to record multiple episodes of reversals of earth's magnetic poles but the effect on the world at large

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-smaller-grain-sand-phytoplankton-key.html ... smaller than a grain of sand, phytoplankton are key to aquatic health. They transform organic contaminants in water into less toxic chemicals.

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-justinianic-plague-flu-struck-england.html ... plague sceptics are wrong to underestimate the devastating impact that plague had in the 6th and 7th centuries AD, according to a

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-solar-eruptions.html ... new research into magnetic fields which form inside the Sun and cause violent eruptions. The idea is to predict solar flares. Mathematicians

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-dinosaur-species-greenland-million-years.html ... a dinosaur that lived 214 million years ago in what is now Greenland is described as a long necked herbivore, a predecessor

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-siege-ramps-breached-walls-ancient.html ... siege ramps and the breached walls of ancient Lachish. A team of archaeologists have reconstructed how the Assyrian army may have built

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-unearthing-seismic-subduction-zones.html ... subduction zones are central to Plate Tectonics theory. One plate is thought to slide under another in order to compensate for new

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-near-earth-asteroid-lost-fragment-moon.html ... a Near Earth asteroid could be a fragment of our moon, according to a research paper in Nature Communications. It orbits the

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-astronomers-supernovae-superwinds-galaxies... ... when astronomers have observed superwinds travelling at extremely high speeds from star clusters, known as starbursts, they have generally assumed the winds

Following on from yesterday. At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-vast-patches-glassy-chilean-ancient.html ... deposits of dark silicate dust are strewn across a 75 km long corridor in the Atacame desert of

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2021/08/20/the-shocking-truth/ ... Andrew Hall is a man with some interesting ideas on geology. His talks, at conference, are always well received, and the various

I never know whether to take Thunderbolts seriously as they present their electric universe theory as if it is fact rather than a theory. The

Another link sent in by Gary. See https://phys.org/news/2021-09-geologists-half-century-old-mystery-animal... ... the mystery is a geological one. Perforations in an Australian rock section, namely in a quartzite,

Gary also sent in the link to www.newscientist.com/article/2294961-jupiters-great-red-spot-extends-far... ... [see also https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abf1015 and https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abf1396 ] ... the Juno spacecraft has peered deeper into the clouds

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10141417/ ... sent in by Gary. An archaeological survey is being undertaken along the route of the HS2 high speed railway to nowhere. The

At https://phys.org/news/2021-10-team-evidence-prehistoric-human-falkland.html ... a Univerisity of Maine led study has found evidence of humans in the Falkland Islands going back deep into the Holocene. In

At https://phys.org/news/2021-10-tarim-basin-mummies.html ... the Silk Road and it many routes through central Asia, brought east and west together in a vibrant trading system. The Yinjiang

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