Melting Ice = Rising Seas & Earth Gravity Shift

"The melting of one of the world's largest ice sheets would alter the Earth's field of gravity and even its rotation in space so much that it would cause sea levels along some coasts to rise faster than the global...

Solar Hot Air Balloons, and Solar Kites. News&Opinion

The International Institute of Nonviolence By: Rev. Jermano   The high cost of energy is slamming us hard in these current times. Saddam Hussein really wasn't the villian after all in the International scheme...

Penguins wash up closer to equator in Brazil

"RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — Penguins from frigid waters near the bottom of the world are washing up closer to the equator than ever before, Brazilian wildlife authorities said Wednesday."

Lump spotted on Mars might be ice - or stone

"Less than a week after landing safely on a cold, sunny patch of far northern Mars, NASA's Phoenix lander is at work and one of its cameras, scientist said Friday, has already detected a lump of ice - or maybe only a little Martian rock.Either way, the Phoenix will begin...

Gaps In Saturn’s Rings Formed By Flying Saucer Moons :: Oblate Spheroid

"When one looks at Saturn, one is struck at how incredibly different it is to our Oblate Spheroid. It is truly spherical and it has a plate of material circling around it at it's equator. The plate, called...

Sunlight Decreses Breast Cancer Risk

" Women who stay out of the sun are increasing their risk of developing breast cancer, a new study suggests. The safe-tanning messages that are drummed into women each year may help to reduce their risk of skin...

Red Storm: Martian Dust Chokes Rovers

Getting stranded on an alien planet sounds bad enough, but throw in a gargantuan dust storm and things get very interesting indeed... NASA's solar-powered martian rovers are getting starved of precious sunlight by...

"Oddball" Earth :: Oblate Spheroid

""Oddball" Earth An interesting fact was revealed in a highlight segment of the mornings news on ABC7, Los Angeles and that is - Mount Everest is NOT the tallest place on Earth, ie. the place on Earth that would...

Global Warming makes you dumber: study

A study about to be released by the University of Albany draws a scientific link between human evolution and climate change. Specifically, the study finds that as early humans migrated to colder climates, their...

Kilimanjaro is melting

"NARO MORU, Kenya - Rivers of ice at the Equator — foretold in the 2nd century, found in the 19th — are now melting away in this new century, returning to the realm of lore and fading photographs. From mile-high Naro Moru, villagers have watched year by year as the...

Planet Earth 'tilted'

"Planet Earth may have 'tilted' to keep its balance, say scientists  Imagine a shift in the Earth so profound that it could force our entire planet to spin on its side after a few million years, tilting it so far that Alaska would sit at the equator. Princeton scientists...

Earth Time

At Noon the sun is overhead, while it's Midnight on the other side of planet Earth.

Solar Storm Warning

Solar minimum has arrived. Sunspots have all but vanished. Solar flares are nonexistent. The sun is utterly quiet.

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