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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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’...
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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.”...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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Video News/Entertainment
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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 ...
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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...