Once vast and shimmering lakes, some of the World’s greatest inland seas are now vanishing before our eyes. This is not just a story of receding shorelines, but a planetary warning.
Continue reading Stranded Ghost Ships and Disappearing Seas
Our Earth is constantly bombarded with high energy particles and cosmic rays. These charged particles interact with the atoms in atmospheric gases, producing a cascade of secondary particles. And you can use those for dating rocks!
Continue reading Dating Rocks – Methods of Historical Surface Exposure Analysis
According to whom you ask, Zero Point Energy can do everything… or nothing at all. But what is it? Something that pervades all of space, albeit on a microscale? The kinetic energy a molecule does retain, even when cooled down to absolute zero? And could it offer us a source of unlimited energy?
Continue reading Zero Point Energy and The Vacuum of Space
Wuwei City, Gansu, China. On the edge of the Gobi desert, the production of safe, inexpensive nuclear energy is soon to be underway. The technology will not use uranium, and it will not require water for its cooling process.
Continue reading Building the Energy Future with Thorium in the Gobi Desert, China
A Norwegian valley. Strange lights observed by many witnesses. It has been called “Norway’s Roswell”. But what makes the remote valley of Hessdalen so different from other locations?
Continue reading Eliminating the Impossible – The Complex Electro-Chemistry Behind the Hessdalen Lights
Over the next century, large magnitude volcano eruptions are many times more likely to happen than all risk of large asteroid or comet impacts combined. The World is not prepared.
Continue reading Volcanic Unrest and How To Survive It
It’s difficult to escape from a World where everything is connected. To spend time in Nature, to find quiet and rest from our unbalanced existences inside our man-made concrete jungles. To seek wisdom in the forest. But we don’t understand Nature. We think: If only those trees could talk!
Continue reading Family Trees, Forests and The Intelligent Green Network Under Our Feet
Greifswald, Northeastern Germany, 2016. Physicists at the Max Planck Institute have been racing to find a way of producing sustainable, clean energy with a stable nuclear fusion reactor. The challenge? Re-creating the Sun’s powerhouse on a much, much smaller scale.
Continue reading Engineering A Star – Nuclear Fusion, Tokamaks and Stellarators
As World leaders meet for COP26 in Glasgow, the Earth has already reached 1.2 °C warming above pre-1880s industrial levels.
Continue reading Our Burning Planet – Beyond Net Zero, Will We Adapt Or Die?
A 42-year-old converted oil exploration ship, JOIDES Resolution is one of the few drilling vessels available to earth scientists for the geological study of the seabed at ocean depths below 8,000 metres. Its ultimate aim is to become better acquainted with what goes on beneath the Earth’s crust.
Continue reading Looking Into The Abyss – The JOIDES Resolution Progress Update