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You learn something new everyday. A sediment core from the Maldives is said to have preserved ocean water from the last Ice Age. How do

A small asteroid exploded in the atmosphere near Peurto Rico on June 22nd - see http://spaceweather.com (June 25th 2019). It occurred in broad daylight and

Continental shelf systems are areas formerly above sea level but now submerged. Such regions may have been periodically submerged with variations in sea levels over

At www.thegwpf.com/isle-of-man-seabird-populations-plummet-as-wind-farms-ov... ... the Isle of Man wildlife charity Manx Birdlife has reported on a 40 per cent decline in the populations of many sea

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/06/researchers-simulate... ... researchers simulate the extreme pressure and heat in the earth's Mantle - or what they assume is the extreme pressure exerted by

At https://phys.org/news/2019-06-astronomers-uranus.html ... astronomers see a warm glow emanating from the rings of Uranus - via the ALMA telescope array. Its most prominent ring is

At https://phys.org/news/2019-06-earthquake-swarms-reveal-piece-tectonic.html .... earthquake swarms are said to reveal mssing piece of tectonic plate volcano puzzle. Deep under the ocean, we are told, a sinking

Sent in by William. Hyenas in the Arctic - is this evidence of pole shift. However, the main stream mantra is that this is, instead,

The prevalence of noctilucent clouds in June has sparked a lot of response from blog authors, mostly as a result of visiting http://spaceweather.com (post on

At https://phys.org/news/2019-06-crocs-climate-clock-ancient-reveal.html ... the ancient distribution of crocodiles could be used to reveal information about past climate. On the other hand, they may reveal more

The first artefacts to emerge from the depths of the North Sea in the current research into what the sediments on the sea bed might

The fascinating Shigir idol is back in the news - or at least at https://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/the-awesome-shigir-... ... the tall idol goes back to the early Holocene

At https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2019/06/17/maunder-minimum-and-the-comet... ... the Maunder Minimum (a very cold episode supposedly associated with a lack of sun spots) is under scrutiny by Tim Cullen. A

At https://phys.org/news/2019-06-king-fossils-kangaroo-island.html ... fossils of a long extinct group of sea creatures known as the trilobites have been found on Kangaroo Island which lies off

At https://phys.org/news/2019-06-evidence-scottish-crannogs-thousands.html ... a research article in the upmarket archaeological journal Antiquity (June 2019) DOI:10.15184/aqy2019.41 ... archaeologists with the University of Reading and the University

At https://grahamhancock.com/hancockg18/ ... Muck, Mammoths and Extinctions. Was Alaska the scene of a great cataclysm at the end of the Ice Age. This comes from

At https://phys.org/news/2019-06-gravitational-dawn-dome-ceres-volcanic.html ... gravitational data beamed back by the Dawn mission suggests the dome on Ceres is a mud volcano - a mix of salty

At https://phys.org/news/2019-06-large-boulders-huge-canyons.html ... river valleys in hilly or mountainous country have the remnants of water surges in them, discarded rocks of various shape and size.

Two interesting posts on noctilucent clouds and the solar minimum - we are currently at the end of one solar cycle and just entering another.

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4163502/climate-change-sparked-m... ... climate change sparked mass ice age extinction event in Australia, 30,000 years ago. From turtles as big as 8 feet across, and