Memorial Day 2021

May 31, 2021
On this day we pause to remember all of those who have given their lives for freedom. From Whitley: "Every year, I take time to walk in a military graveyard, past all those stones, reflecting that each one of them... continued

White House Orders Intel Agencies to ‘Redouble’ Coronavirus Origin Investigation Efforts

May 29, 2021
President Joe Biden has ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to “redouble” their efforts regarding their investigations into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the possibility that the coronavirus may have originated at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. Joining international pressure... continued

In Antarctica, the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Is Melting Faster Than Assumed, and the World’s Largest Iceberg Is Now Adrift

May 27, 2021
An enormous iceberg larger than Rhode Island has broken off of Antarctica's Ronne Ice Shelf, and is now adrift in the Weddell Sea. First spotted by an ESA's satellite, the state-sized chunk of ice measures in at 170 kilometers (105... continued

Hurricane SeasonTrending Towards Above Average for the Sixth Year in a Row

May 24, 2021
For the sixth year in a row, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is predicting that the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season will be another above-average year, although they don't anticipate that this year will be a repeat of 2020's "hyperactive" season, with a record-breaking... continued

Peru Turns to Ancient Indigenous Technology to Avoid a Water Crisis

May 21, 2021
Peru is looking at using ancient indigenous water management techniques to keep water flowing to its residents as climate change causes the local climate to become increasingly arid. The 1,400-year-old nature-based practice makes use of a combination of man-made canals... continued

Displacement of the North Atlantic’s Gulf Stream Linked to Rapid Ocean Warming

May 19, 2021
Researchers have discovered that as global warming causes the North Atlantic’s Gulf Stream to migrate further north, it blocks the flow of water flowing from the Arctic via the Labrador Current, a situation resulting in detrimental changes in the environment... continued

Navy Video of a “Transmedium” UFO Entering the Ocean Has Been Released

May 18, 2021
A video of a UFO that was encountered by the USS Omaha off of the California coast in 2019 has been released by documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell. A series of three still images of this video had been released previously as part... continued

Built to Produce Matter From Nothingness: China’s “Station of Extreme Light”

May 14, 2021
Researchers in China plan on creating matter out of absolutely nothing by using an ultra-powerful laser to overcome spacetime itself at the quantum level. While we shouldn't expect the laser to manifest a hot cup of Earl Grey tea out... continued

The Amazon Rainforest Has Flipped From a Carbon Sink to a Carbon Emitter

May 12, 2021
The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is now producing more carbon emissions than it is absorbing from the atmosphere, due to the continued degradation of this massive biome. Although deforestation activities play no small part in this degradation, climate change-fueled droughts... continued

Climate Change Linked to a Shift in How Earth Spins on Its Axis

May 10, 2021
A new study has discovered that climate change is altering the way the Earth wobbles as it spins about its axis, causing the planet's natural short-term polar drift to increase in speed by 1,600 percent over what it was in... continued