The 5,125-yearlong Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012, which many claim portends a massive global transformation. Some dread its arrival, believing it will be the beginning of the end. […] full story
Category: 2012
As Temperature Rises, Earth Breathes Faster, and Maybe Harder
As planetary temperatures rise, Earth’s soils release steadily larger amounts of carbon dioxide, according to massive data crunching from hundreds of soil respiration studies published since 1989. The critical question […] full story
Earthquake in Chile moved city 9 feet
The earthquake of magnitude 8.8 that struck Chile on 27 February visited the city of Concepción for more than three meters to the west, scientists revealed on Monday (8). Preliminary […] full story
Caught on Tape: Flood? What Flood? or How To Face a Catastrophe…
What was supposed to have been just another lunch on a Brazilian Saturday has become a small aquatic adventure with the right to flood the restaurant and a different way […] full story
Undersea Methane is really leaking!
Prodigious plumes of planet-warming methane are bubbling from sediments across a broad region of Arctic seafloor previously thought to be sealed by permafrost, new analyses indicate. The resulting increase of […] full story
Chilean Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days
The Feb. 27 magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile may have shortened the length of each Earth day. JPL research scientist Richard Gross computed how Earth’s rotation should have changed as […] full story
Mystery Comet or Asteroid Collision?
February 2, 2010 – Last month something strange was spotted in the asteroid belt. It looked like a comet, but its strange circular orbit around the sun suggested it must […] full story
10 Failed Doomsday Predictions
With the upcoming disaster film “2012” and the current hype about Mayan calendars and doomsday predictions, it seems like a good time to put such notions in context.Most prophets of […] full story
Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Pluto Files
PBS is a great channel, this interview with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson at Los Angeles Public Library he talks about the Planet X and the end of the world in […] full story