Dec 132012
 
NASA Confident No End of World- Releases Video "Why the World Didn't End Yesterday"

  So confident are NASA that the apocalypse will not happen on December 21st that they have released a video 10 days ahead of schedule entitled 'Why the World Didn't End Yesterday'. Outlining point by point each of the so called 'myths' that surround the end of the Mayan calendar, astronomical and planetary experts debunk [...More...]

Jun 072012
 
70 Ft Japanese Dock Washes Ashore in Oregon, 15 Months after Earthquake and Tsunami

  A nearly 70-feet-long dock that floated ashore on a beach in Oregon is definitely debris from last year's tsunami in Japan, a state official said Wednesday. Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation spokesman Chris Haven said the Japanese consulate in Portland, Oregon, traced the seven-feet-tall concrete and steel floating dock to a manufacturer in [...More...]

Jun 062012
 
Stunning Underwater Shots Showcase the Strange World Beneath the Waves

  These stunning pictures are some of the winners in one of the world’s biggest underwater photo competitions.  From grinning great whites to colourful nudibranchs and underwater strip poker players it runs the whole spectrum of water related photography. And with 12,000 entries from 123 different countries submitted to the underwaterphotography.com website, some of the [...More...]

Jun 062012
 
Sailing in a strawberry milkshake: High levels of salt turn African lake an extraordinary colour

  Punting through this unusually coloured lake it looks like this worker is wading through water running red with blood. But while they are not taking to the bizarre looking Lake Retba, in Senegal, west Africa for some sort of morbid rescue mission, it is an unsavoury job of sorts.  That's because the blood red [...More...]

May 082012
 
Killer Solar Flares Are a Physical Impossibility

  Given a legitimate need to protect Earth from the most intense forms of space weather – great bursts of electromagnetic energy and particles that can sometimes stream from the sun – some people worry that a gigantic "killer solar flare" could hurl enough energy to destroy Earth. Citing the accurate fact that solar activity [...More...]

May 042012
 
Biggest Full Moon of the Year Set for Saturday Night

  Photo courtesy of NASA A full moon this weekend is set to be the biggest of this year, earning itself ‘supermoon’ status. This month’s full moon will officially happen this Saturday at 11.35pm. It coincides with the moon’s closest approach to Earth, known as its perigee, which will bring it to 221,802 miles away, [...More...]

May 022012
 
No Doomsday - Magnetic Pole Reversal Happens All the Time

  Schematic illustration of Earth's magnetic field.  Credit: Peter Reid, The University of Edinburgh   Scientists understand that Earth's magnetic field has flipped its polarity many times over the millennia. In other words, if you were alive about 800,000 years ago, and facing what we call north with a magnetic compass in your hand, the [...More...]

May 022012
 
Mysterious Green Cloud Looms Over Moscow

Mysterious yellow-green cloud loomng over the city of Moscow, Russia puzzled residents as Friday is the anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Ukraine. Green dust clouds moved in from the south-west. But officials say that given the time of year and the atmospheric conditions, the mysterious green cloud is actually a cloud [...More...]

Apr 112012
 
Millions Relieved After Tsunami Alert is Lifted Following Powerful Earthquake

  Panic spread today after tsunami warnings were issued following two massive earthquakes off Indonesia. Thousands of people in Aceh – 270 miles from the epicenter of the first 8.7 magnitude quake – fled to the hills fearing a repeat of the deadly 2004 tsunami. Buildings shook for four minutes and there were reports of [...More...]

Mar 222012
 
Venice hasn't stopped sinking after all

The water flowing through Venice's famous canals laps at buildings a little higher every year – and not only because of a rising sea level. Although previous studies had found that Venice has stabilized, new measurements indicate that the historic city continues to slowly sink, and even to tilt slightly to the east. "Venice appears [...More...]

Mar 202012
 
Northern Minnesota river fish kill: Low oxygen levels blamed

Kevin Peterson, Department of Natural Resources reports that thousands of fish have died in a fish kill on the Pelican River near Orr, Minnesota. "It was a substantial fish kill,  It's an unfortunate loss of our fisheries resource," Peterson said. The kill occurred over a 2 mile stretch of the Pelican River and  was probably [...More...]

Mar 202012
 
Earthquake disrupts supply of beloved breakfast spread in New Zealand

  In New Zealand, it's being called "Marmageddon."  The island nation is facing a dwindling stock of the beloved Marmite spread after recent earthquakes in Christchurch forced the manufacturer to shut down the only factory producing the stuff. A spokesman for Sanitarium, the maker of the salty breakfast spread, says it has now run out [...More...]

Mar 172012
 
A new theory on the formation of the oldest continents

The earth’s structure can be compared to an orange: its crust is the peel supported by the earth’s heavy mantle. That peel is made up of a continental crust 30 to 40 kilometers thick. It is much lighter than the thinner oceanic crust and protrudes from the earth’s mantle because of its lower density, like an iceberg in the sea.

Mar 132012
 
Flying Through a Geomagnetic Storm

Glowing green and red, shimmering hypnotically across the night sky, the aurora borealis is a wonder to behold. Longtime sky watchers say it is the greatest show on Earth. It might be the greatest show in Earth orbit, too. High above our planet, astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) have been enjoying an up-close view of auroras outside their windows as the ISS flys through geomagnetic storms.

Mar 132012
 
Lava formations in western US linked to rip in giant slab of Earth

Like a stream of air shooting out of an airplane’s broken window to relieve cabin pressure, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego say lava formations in eastern Oregon are the result of an outpouring of magma forced out of a breach in a massive slab of Earth. Their new mechanism explaining how such a large volume of magma was generated is published in the Feb. 16 issue of the journal Nature.