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Solar/Cosmic
AFTER 10 years of comparative slumber, the sun is waking up - and it's got astronomers on full alert.
This week several US media outlets reported that NASA was warning the massive flare that caused spectacular light shows on Earth earlier this month wa...
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UFO's
Location of Sighting: Redhill Surrey
Date of Sighting: 15th August 2010
Time: 21:20
Witness Statement: My wife and I live under the approach circuit to Gatwick Airport, and as such regularly witness planes at low level either on final approach to Gatwi...
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Planet in Peril
NEW YORK — Floods, fires, melting ice, and feverish heat — from smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Iowa and the High Arctic, the planet seems to be having a midsummer breakdown. It is not just a portent of things to come, scientists say, but a sign o...
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Extreme Weather
For a second day running it snowed Wednesday in Southern Brazil and in twelve of Argentina’s 24 provinces including parts of Buenos Aires as a consequence of the polar front covering most of the continent’s southern cone with zero and below zero tempe...
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Mysterious Phenomenon
The jet stream has split in two. One arm has gone north, another south. The patch in the middle is Russia's drought. A circulating pattern of air has been sitting over Russia for far longer than normal, causing the extreme temperatures and wildfires they'...
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Health
Russian health officials are warning people in Moscow to stay inside and avoid physical exertion as smog from the worst wildfires in modern Russian history smothers the city.
Haze and smoke are spreading through Moscow's streets, even seeping into the ...
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Solar/Cosmic
North America was treated to a rare solar light show late Tuesday night, courtesy of a series of massive eruptions that swept the surface of the sun over the weekend and sent tons of plasma hurling directly at Earth.
The magnetic radiation from the sol...
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Extreme Weather
While Pakistan has been hit by catastrophic flooding, Russia has endured a lethal heatwave.
Some 1,200 people have been killed in the deluges sweeping Pakistan, but in Moscow more than 30 are reported to have died in wildfires as temperatures have soar...
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Environment
NEW ORLEANS — There is little celebration on the Gulf Coast.
Even with the news of the tentative plugging of BP’s well, the attention here has largely been focused elsewhere, on a week’s worth of reports, culminating in a federal study released o...
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Extreme Weather
FLASH floods triggered by torrential monsoon rains have so far killed up to 1500 people in Pakistan, a government minister confirmed this morning.
"There are 774 deaths registered with us, but the total number killed in the flood is 1200 to 1500," Mian...
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Extreme Weather
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has declared a state of emergency in seven Russian regions because of wildfires fuelled by a heatwave.
The death toll from the fires has risen to at least 34.
The Russian emergencies ministry said 500 new blazes had...
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Comets/Meteors
Captured via all-sky camera near Santa Fe, New Mexico; audio is from a 61 MHz forward-scattering meteor radar.
"It turned night into day," says amateur astronomer Thomas Ashcraft who recorded the fireball.
Video Source: Youtube
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Solar/Cosmic
GLOBAL ERUPTION: During the early hours of August 1st, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a complex global disturbance on the Earth-facing side of the sun. Most of the sun's northern hemisphere was involved in the event, which included a long-du...
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Space Science/Technology
July 27, 2010: Researchers using NASA's fleet of five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a form of space weather that packs the punch of an earthquake and plays a key role in sparking bright Northern Lights. They call it "the spacequake."
A spacequake ...
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Video News
Venice, La., is facing extinction. The small fishing community, located just 50 miles away from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, is in jeopardy, as the BP oil spill has put the livelihood of the residents in danger. The people of Venice are now left with a...
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UFO's
July 10 - Recurring exploding UFO - Filmed from North Irwin, Pennsylvania
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Headline News
As the temperature hit 99F (38C), the highest in Moscow since records began 130 years ago, even famous landmarks such as Red Square were partially obscured by the smog and doctors warned people to stay indoors.
Such fires break out almost every summer ...
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Headline News
Flooding in China this year has killed 701 people, left 347 missing and caused billions of pounds in damage, a senior Chinese official has said.
Three-quarters of China's provinces have been hit by flooding and 25 rivers have seen record high water lev...
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Environment
Capped, not capped, capped. The news is staggeringly confusing and overwhelming. Apparently, as of this writing, there is likely a leak but scientists are still conducting tests. Those who were celebrating the capping of the months-long oil leak in the Gu...
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Earth/Science
The two pictures show an "alarming" retreat in ice over more than 80 years.
The first was taken in 1921 by British mountaineer George Mallory, who later died trying to conquer Everest.
The Asia Society commissioned the same picture to b...
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