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How Recent Solar Flares Are Affecting Humans
Recently we are experiencing an intensive amount of solar activity on the Sun which is affecting both the Earth and Humans.

Exactly what is a solar flare and how does it affect us?

A solar flare is a magnetic storm on the Sun which appears to be a very bright spot and a gaseous surface eruption such as in the above photograph. Solar flares release huge amounts of high-energy particles and gases that are tremendously hot. They are ejected thousands of miles from the surface of the Sun.

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  • A Look Back: Mysterious Meteorite Flashes Over Siberia

    Comets/Meteors
    2002: A large fireball flashes across the night skies of the Irkutsk region of Siberia. What may have been a comet causes electrical circuits to come alive and leaves residents worrying about radioactivity. Eyewitnesses saw the sky light up. More than ...
  • The Sun could be heading into period of extended calm

    Solar & Cosmic Events
    Photo: When the solar cycle was at a minimum level in 1996, the Sun sprayed Earth with relatively few, weak high-speed streams containing turbulent magnetic fields (left). In contrast, the Sun bombarded Earth with stronger and longer-lasting streams las...
  • Ominous Signs as Glaciers Race to the Sea

    Planet in Peril
    The seas are rising, and climate scientists say they'll keep rising as the globe continues to warm, causing all sorts of problems along tens of thousands of miles of coastline around the world. What the scientists can't say for sure, though, is how much s...
  • Asteroid attack: Putting Earth's defences to the test

    Comets/Meteors
    IT LOOKS inconsequential enough, the faint little spot moving leisurely across the sky. The mountain-top telescope that just detected it is taking it very seriously, though. It is an asteroid, one never seen before. Rapid-survey telescopes discover thousa...
  • U.S. Prepares to Battle the Deadly Swine Flu

    Stay On Top Of The News
    As the nation braces for flu season and a potential outbreak of swine flu, the South already appears to be dealing with a wave of H1N1 cases, setting up tents to deal with hundreds of possibly infected children each day. The hospitals in the southeast...
  • Red dust storm chokes Sydney

    Environment
    A large stretch of Australia's east coast, including the largest city Sydney, has been shrouded in red dust blown in from the desert outback. In Photos: Sydney Dust Storm Visibility in Sydney was so bad that flights were diverted and harbour ferry traf...
  • Global Premier: The Age of Stupid

    Video News/Entertainment
    The year is 2055, and climate change has wreaked havoc on the Earth and its peoples. One surviving man, an archivist played by Pete Postlethwaite, combs through a series of documentary footage from 2008: Iraqi refugee children in search of their lost brot...
  • Massive Floods Devastate Metro Atlanta

    Extreme Weather
    Georgia State of Emergency as Torrential Rains Claim 8 Victims Image: Floodwaters roar across the highway in Paulding County, one of the hardest-hit in Georgia. Photo: CNN News Photo Slideshow The rain seems never ending for the waterlogged residents ...
  • Glenn Beck's Demagoguery, and Right Wing Extremism

    Politics/Economy
    Glenn Beck has landed on the cover of TIME magazine. Beck is featured in a cover story by David Von Drehle titled, "Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad For America?" Von Drehle adds: Is Glen Beck Bad For America? Extreme talk, especially as practiced by ...
  • 'Millions at risk' as deltas sink

    Environment
    Most of the world's major river deltas are sinking, increasing the flood risk faced by hundreds of millions of people. Damming and diverting rivers means that much less sediment now reaches many delta areas, while extraction of gas and groundwater also lo...
  • Arctic Meltdown: The Canary in the Coalmine

    Environment
    Ban Ki-Moon 20 September 2009 Two weeks ago, I visited the Arctic. I saw the remains of a glacier that just a few years ago was a majestic mass of ice. It had collapsed. Not slowly melted — collapsed. I traveled nine hours by ship from the world’...
  • Mysterious Rumbling Noises Abound

    Weird & Unusual
    With reports as far back as April 2009 - Residents on Vancouver Island are puzzled by a recurrent loud rumbling noise that some liken to the sound of a jet, and others to an earthquake. It can last for up to 30 seconds. “It’s like a jet taking off.”...
  • Swine Flu could lead to Anarchy and Millions of Deaths

    Health
    The swine flu pandemic could kill millions and cause anarchy in the world's poorest nations unless £900m can be raised from rich countries to pay for vaccines and antiviral medicines, says a UN report leaked to the Observer. The disclosure will provok...
  • The Prophet of Climate Doom

    Prophecy & Predictions
    Researchers from a broad swathe of disciplines are strangely ill at ease when asked about fellow scientist James Lovelock, whose improbable career has just entered its seventh decade. Chemists, biologists, climatologists and physicists are all quick to...
  • Warming could bring fire and brimstone, tsunami and quakes

    Planet in Peril
    Quakes, volcanic eruptions, giant landslides and tsunamis may become more frequent as global warming changes the earth's crust itself, scientists warned on Wednesday. Climate-linked geological changes could also trigger "methane burps" - the release of a ...
  • Asteroid Juno Grabs the Spotlight

    Astronomy
    Toward the end of September, the sun will turn a spotlight on the asteroid Juno, giving that bulky lump of rock a rare featured cameo in the night sky. Those who get out to a dark, unpolluted sky will be able to spot the asteroid's silvery glint near the ...
  • UFO Prophet Warns of Devastating Events in 2012

    Prophecy & Predictions
    Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 14, 2009 -- Recently published information by a Swiss man foretells widespread catastrophic consequences of global warming. According to Billy Meier, increased environmental destruction, famine and even the speeding up o...
  • Patrick Swayze To Be Cremated

    Video News/Entertainment
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  • CDC: Swine flu causing deadly lung infections like avian virus

    Health
    Avian Flu in Disguise? Autopsies show that the H1N1 swine flu virus can cause deep, fatal lung infections rarely seen in seasonal flu but common with the deadly avian strain, experts reported today. Reuters tells us that "this virus is different from ...
  • Secrets of the Freemasons

    Announements
    (AP) The lodge room of the Naval Masonic Hall is a colorful and somewhat inscrutable sight for the nonmember, with its blue walls, Egyptian symbols, checkered floor in the center and high ceiling painted with gold stars. Countless secrets supposed...

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Flotilla of tsunami debris on way — Alaska now inundated

Flotilla of tsunami debris on way — Alaska now inundated

A flotilla of debris resulting from the tsunami last year in Japan is heading for the U.S. coast. It might take a while to arrive, but in the meantime Alaska already has its hands full. (Digital Journal) recently reported on the soccer ball... [More...]

The surprising threat from Mexico's awakened volcano

The surprising threat from Mexico's awakened volcano

North America's second-tallest volcano recently rumbled to life, putting authorities on edge. Big eruptions of Mexico's massive Popocatepetl volcano are "few and far between," as one geologist says. Yet even without any dramatic fireworks,... [More...]

Fukushima Nuclear Reactor on Verge of Catastrophic Collapse

Fukushima Nuclear Reactor on Verge of Catastrophic Collapse

Imminent collapse of Reactor 4 could create a mass extinction event of both humans and animals. During a recent Congressional delegation trip to Japan, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden witnessed with his own eyes the horrific aftermath of the Fukushima... [More...]

Earth Unprepared for Mega Solar Storm

Earth Unprepared for Mega Solar Storm

Humanity needs to be much better prepared for massive solar storms, which can wreak havoc on our technology-dependent society, a prominent researcher warns. Powerful (blasts from the sun) have triggered intense geomagnetic storms on Earth... [More...]

NASA Calls Meteor Eruption

NASA Calls Meteor Eruption "Huge Event"

If you heard a large boom just before 8am Sunday, you weren't alone. Dr. Bill Cooke with the Lead, NASA Meteroid Environments Office said the meteor eruption caused quite the commotion. Cooke said the meteor's energy was a whopping 3.8... [More...]

East and West coast of Canada hit with earthquake swarms

East and West coast of Canada hit with earthquake swarms

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck about 200 kilometres west of Vancouver Island on Friday morning but there were no reports of it being felt by island residents. The quake struck around 1:36 a.m. PT, according to the Natural Resources... [More...]

Scientists Discover Instability in West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Scientists Discover Instability in West Antarctic Ice Sheet

AUSTIN, Texas — Using ice-penetrating radar instruments flown on aircraft, a team of scientists from the U.S. and U.K. have uncovered a previously unknown sub-glacial basin nearly the size of New Jersey beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS)... [More...]

Stars of the Apocalypse

Stars of the Apocalypse

The Mayans weren't the only ones to believe that time is rapidly runing out for the human race. Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix and Michael Jackson all believed in doomsday, according to rock guru Michael C. Luckman, founder of the Cosmic Majority and... [More...]

Is Extreme Weather on the Rise?

Is Extreme Weather on the Rise?

A fascinating video posted to YouTube poses the question: Are extreme weather wind events on the rise around the world? A sampling of the many, widespread TV news reports and amateur video, compiled from just the first week of May 2012, seems to say... [More...]

Rise and Fall of an Underwater Volcano

Rise and Fall of an Underwater Volcano

The violent rise and collapse of an underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean is captured in startling clarity for the first time. Researchers studying the Monowai volcano, near Tonga, recorded huge changes in height in just two weeks. The... [More...]

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