ALASKA VOLCANO PHOTO: Hole Now Football Field Size

It is beginning to look more and more likely that this volcano will erupt soon. " February 3, 2009—Volcanic smoke and gas from two new holes eat through snow and ice high on Alaska's Redoubt Volcano on...

Orbiter, Finishing a Mission, Offers a Peek at Mars’ Wrinkles

.We need more missions to Marsand the other planets.  There isstill much to learn and we need to learn all we can for future use." “Technically and scientifically, it has certainly met our expectations,”...

Drillers Break Into Magma Chamber

    Geologists and a team of drillers accidentally put a well right into a magma chamber on a Eastern section of Hawaii's big island. They were looking for a source of steam from underground water...

The Peak Oil Deception: Squeezing Energy for Profit

Best way to control the price of a highly desired product is to claim it is scarce.Scientists have known for many years that oil is not a fossil fuel. Recent reports have revealed that."The Peak Oil Deception: Squeezing Energy for Profit While energy needs are set to grow...

Oil-eating bugs may unlock clean energy from crude

If this works, these bugs are going to be unlocking oil like Barry Bonds unlocks home run records."A tiny oil-eating bug that lives deep underground may allow the world's oil industry to unlock energy trapped in trillions of barrels of heavy crude, which is costly and dirty...

8,000-year-old take on Noah's Ark

First Nations had a similar legend about Lake Agassiz and the rising waters around central Canada, so similar to Greeks and Turks legends about the Black sea's earthen dam separating the mediterranean breaking way...

Indonesia volcano eruption imminent despite false alarm: scientist

"A day after a false alarm on Indonesia's Mount Kelut led to panic among residents on its slopes, the volcano is showing signs of an imminent eruption, a scientist said Sunday. "An eruption is now very, very much...

Western Canada's Glaciers Hit 7000-Year Low

"Tree stumps at the feet of Western Canadian glaciers are providing new insights into the accelerated rates at which the rivers of ice have been shrinking due to human-aided global warming.  Geologist...

Kilauea Lava Takes Unusual Direction

"What you're actually seeing is a lava river, in essence, a channel that's feeding a flow that's moving slowly to the northeast right now," said Jim Kauahikaua, geophysicist with the Hawaiian Volcano...

Rare fossilized cypress trees found in Hungary

Hungarian scientists found rare Taxodium trees that instead of turning into stone as - they should be - were preserved.  They were found in an open-cast coal mine which allows the scientists to study the...

The Oblate Spheroid, An Earthworm's View - Fossil Forest Find

"Last week, geologists surveying a coalmine 250 feet below the current surface of the Earth's crust, came upon a preserved 300 million year old forest. Measuring over four-square miles in size, the discovery is...

Earth's Crust Missing In Mid-Atlantic

"Scientists have discovered a large area thousands of square kilometres in extent in the middle of the Atlantic where the Earth’s crust appears to be missing. Instead, the mantle - the deep interior of the Earth, normally covered by crust many kilometres thick - is exposed...

Polar ice sheets show net loss

In the last five years, the amount of glacier ice dumped into the Atlantic Ocean has doubled.

The Russians may be winning a new, very cold war in Antarctica

Drilling a hole 2.5 mile deep in Antarctica.

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