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Two guys in Colorado took advantage of certain type of crop insurance, as explained by U.S. Attorney Cole Finegan:  ”One way the United States Department of Agriculture supports farmers and ranchers is by providing federal...

Over the last few days there have been a few interesting general news items touching on topics that I have covered here in the past: Wolves, Oroville Dam, Great Salt Lake..  I’m just going to mention them, with my opinions,...

Stock markets took an initial heavy hit back in March when the governments of the world issued edicts shutting down the economies of entire nations.  Investors were scared silly.  . . . . and now?

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Given documented cases of Ebola survivors becoming long term symptomless carriers, this outbreak should worry everyone, though for now the WHO claims the risk of the Ebola outbreak spreading outside...

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach As I mentioned in a recent post, the CERES satellite folks have released another year’s worth of data. Since this should have gotten us past the temperature bump related to the 2016-2017...

News Brief by Kip Hansen Plastics are as much in the news as climate change, and hold the same honored place as a universal scapegoat — an item so odious that all are welcome to blame it for a host of ills environmental...

Study: Radar imaging shows how the mountain collapsed after North Korea’s most recent nuclear test As North Korea’s president pledges to “denuclearize” the Korean peninsula, an international team of...

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Two teenagers died in Fort Lauderdale after being trapped in a Tesla car which burst into flames after a crash. Federal agency will investigate Tesla crash that killed two young students By Linda...

Remember this fantastic view from a launch in 2015? We might see one that looks similar this weekend in Southern California. NASA is about to do something it has never done before. On Saturday, May 5th, the space agency will...

Essay by THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D. This month marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most destructive books of the last century, The Population Bomb, by Paul Ehrlich. The 1968 doomsday bestseller generated hysteria...

This may explain why so much alarming (but false) information exists about climate change, chemtrails, Fukushima radiation, UFO’s etc. Mark Twain was amazingly prescient, even before the age of Twitter with this famous...

Arrgh. Three days ago, a New York Times article reported: Yellowstone’s last supereruption occurred 631,000 years ago. And it’s not the planet’s only buried supervolcano. Scientists suspect that a supereruption scars...

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Scientists working at Queensland’s Griffith University have developed what they claim is the world’s first long term effective Malaria vaccine...

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – Climate Scientist Daniel Alongi has been indicted by Australian authorities, and accused of falsifying half a million dollars worth of expenses...

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Swiss Chocolate Makers are working hard to ensure that a warmer world will still be able to enjoy premium chocolate treats...