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NOT MANY KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood I recently came across this paper from 2012:…

In the next decade, NASA and ESA will send two special missions to explore Jupiter's moon Europe. These missions are known as Europa Clipper and JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) missions that will fulfill a decades-long dream -…

From a post by Arnout Jaspers at clintel.org. In 2016, a headline grabbing study said that the Antarctic ice sheet is much more unstable than estimated.  As a consequence, projected sea level rise in 2100 would double. Computer…

On the anniversary of the first moon landing, Blue Origin became the second commercial space company in just nine days to send people just over the edge of space. During the seemingly flawless 10-minute and 10-second flight, the four…

Guest “This would make sense if it was the other BLM” by David Middleton Does anyone here remember the ecoterrorist organization Earth First! and their terrorist attacks in the 1980’s? TREE SPIKING AN ‘ECO-TERRORIST’ TACTICBy…

The universe has some very extreme places in it – and there are few places more extreme than the surface of a neutron star.  These ultradense objects form after a supergiant star collapses into a sphere about 10 kilometers (6 miles) in…

Guest contribution by Eric Worrall Market Forces, a subsidiary of Friends of the Earth, wants regulators to condemn New Hope Mining for claiming coal will stay here. But New Hope has quietly questioned the viability of the entire…

The astronomy community breathed a huge sigh of relief earlier this week when the Space Telescope Science Institute announced the Hubble Space Telescope’s major computer issues had been fixed after a grueling month of recovery work. They…

Guest “Only Nixon could go to China” by David Middleton Rick Perry once wanted to abolish the Energy Department. Trump picked him to run it.By Brad Plumer Updated Dec 13, 2016Back in 2011, during the GOP presidential primary, Rick…

Auroras come in many shapes and sizes. Jupiter is known for its spectacular addition of bright northern lights, which also appear in the X-ray band. These northern lights are also extreme sources of energy that give off almost a gigawatt…