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• Eerie Audio Recordings from the Bottom of the Mariana Trench
  on Mar 7, 2016 in Earth Discovery Ocean Ecology
  Deep rumbles, unearthly moans, high pitched screeching: these are but a few elements of the alien soundscape researchers have now recorded for the first time at Challenger Deep, the deepest known valley on the seafloor.One might expect Challenger...
• Bizarre Mutated Mountain Lion Discovered in Idaho
  on Feb 17, 2016 in Earth Discovery
  It’s hard to watch the media downplay all these bizarre animal events as if they just have no idea whatsoever that we’re under continual assault by ever-increasing radiation in our environment. Last month a hunter’s dog was attacked by a mou...
• 'Sun dog' captures the attention of Caledon residents
  on Feb 15, 2016 in Earth/Science
  Residents across Caledon were looking to the skies Thursday morning (Feb. 11) as a unique ‘sun dog’ cast a spherical glow on the landscape. “It certainly was a beautiful sight this morning...
• West Coast bird die-off “is biggest ever recorded”
  on Feb 10, 2016 in Environment
  Alaska Dispatch News, Jan 29, 2016 (emphasis added): Scientists think Gulf of Alaska seabird die-off is biggest ever recorded… The mass of dead seabirds that have washed up on Alaska beaches in past months is unprecedented in size, scope and durati...
• Burning 9-story-high landfill covers Mumbai with toxic fumes
  on Feb 5, 2016 in Environment Environmental Hazards
  Social media has been flooded with apocalyptic pictures of the Indian city of Mumbai after a massive toxic fire broke out at a nine-story-high local dumping ground. For the second week, fumes have covered buildings and forced motorists to drive in...
• Radioactive Water From Fukushima Is Leaking Into the Pacific
  on Jan 28, 2016 in Environment Environmental Hazards
  "Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind," Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Truthout shortly after a 9.0 earthquake in Japan caused a tsunami that destroyed the cooling syste...
• Mangroves move inland as seas rise
  on Jan 21, 2016 in Earth Change
  Adapting to the damaging effects of climate change, plants are gradually moving to where temperatures are cooler, rainfall is greater, freshwater is available or other conditions are ideal. The researcher is studying the effects of sea level rise...
• Amazing 'firenado' filmed at large trash dump blaze in Mexico
  on Dec 31, 2015 in Earth/Science
  Luis Felipe Gaspar, a photo and video journalist in Mexicali, Mexico captured this amazing firenado during a blaze in a city's dump transfer unit on 28th December 2015. Click the Link To Read More on This Article, or to View the Media...
• Earth's Deepest Lake is Seriously Ill
  on Dec 11, 2015 in Environment
  On the main drag of Khuzhir, the principal town of Olkhon Island in Lake Baikal, Siberia, the dust blown from buses delivering tourists billows through the windswept streets. By the upturned chassis of vehicles picked clean of parts, babushkas wad...
• Tiny Real-Life 'Dragon' Makes A Stunning Rare Appearance
  on Nov 24, 2015 in Earth/Science Earth/Science News Ocean Ecology
  Plenty of strange and fanciful creatures have been invented within the long tradition of lore and mythology, but few real-life beings have been so aptly named after one of those from fiction. Meet the blue dragon — probably among the most beau...

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