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New Book of the Week: Last Days of Israel

August 1, 2001
The mideast is exploding, and there's one journalist with the courage to tell it like it is. In the Last Days of Israel, controversial journalist Barry Chamish asks a very simple question: is Israel on the road to destruction? His... continued

Volcano Could Drown Town

July 30, 2001
The crater of Mount Pinatubo is filling with water and scientists warn that it?s about to burst. Pinatubo erupted violently in 1991. Now the lake water level inside the crater is rising, effecting a geological fault in the crater called... continued

Dinosaurs Could be Hatched from Chicken Eggs

July 30, 2001
Scientists are planning to hatch dinosaurs from chicken eggs by turning back the evolutionary clock to when birds were dinosaurs. They believe advances in DNA technology could make such a feat possible in 60 to 100 years. Modern birds are... continued

NASA Trashed Evidence of Mars Life

July 30, 2001
A University of Southern California scientist says that experiments done more than 20 years ago on Martian soil collected by Viking landers 1 and 2 show that life exists on Mars in the form of microbes. The significance of that... continued

Sudden Climate Change Wrecked Egyptian Old Kingdom

July 30, 2001
Over Four thousand two hundred years ago, the first great civilization in Egypt collapsed. The pharaohs of the Egyptian Old Kingdom built the pyramids at Giza, one of the greatest monuments of the ancient world. But after nearly a thousand... continued

Whitley’s On Tour–Don’t Miss It!

July 28, 2001
Whitley's new novel, the Last Vampire is out and he's on tour for it this week and next week. August 8 Denver The Tattered Cover 7:30 PM. August 9 Boulder Boulder Bookstore 7:30 PM. August 13 San Francisco Booksmith 7:00... continued

Global Warming to Become Deadly in Asia

July 27, 2001
Parts of Asia face deadly climate changes and natural disasters caused by pollution and atmospheric warming, sooner than the rest of the world. Floods in Southeast Asia, glaciers melting in the Himalayas, islands disappearing in rising seas and huge dust... continued

Sudden Climate Change on Mars

July 27, 2001
New images from NASA?s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft show signs of recent climate change dating back about 100,000 years instead of millions or billions, including ?megafloods? that may have triggered climate changes, extensive terrain that closely mimics permafrost areas on... continued

Deadly Mosquitos Spread as Spray Dangers Emerge

July 27, 2001
One feared effect of a warmer climate has been the northward movement of tropical pests like the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Now the mosquito, which spreads dengue fever and sometimes even the deadly yellow fever appears to have made it to... continued

Chile Earthquake Caused Russia Plane Crash

July 27, 2001
The recent crash of a Vladivostok Avia plane in Siberia that killed all 145 on board might have been caused by an earthquake on the opposite side of the Earth, in Chile. Seismologists said that alarm signals in the doomed... continued