Beverage Company Drilling For Whiskey In Antarctica's Ice

Nov 18, 2009 - 11/16/09 09:06 PM | Source   WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whisky that has been on the rocks since a century ago.   The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whisky that were shipped to the Antarctic by British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton as part of his abandoned 1909 expedition. - 13 Comments

2012 Dawn of a New Age or The End?

Sep 03, 2009 - If you’ve been to the movies a few times in the past six months chances are you may have seen a preview for the much anticipated earth shattering disaster film 2012. The film with the help of masterful special effects portrays a cataclysm presumably predicted by the Mayan Calendar. This famous interpretation may be considered baloney by many but make sure your sentiment for the theory does not disparage the accuracy of the Mayan calendar. - 16 Comments

Social workers threaten to thwart teen sailor's record bid

Aug 27, 2009 - Laura Dekker, 13, wants to become youngest person to sail solo around globe (CNN) -- A Dutch Court will decide the fate Friday of 13-year-old Laura Dekker, either making her a potential world-record-breaking sailor, or returning her to school. Welfare services in the Netherlands have taken legal action to try to stop the teen from attempting to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world because they believe the voyage will be too dangerous. The Dutch Council for Child Protection has applied to the District Court in the city of Utrecht for Dekker to be made a ward of court so that her parents, who support her plans, temporarily lose the right to make decisions about her. - 7 Comments

Ant mega-colony takes over world

Jul 01, 2009 - A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same interrelated colony, and will refuse to fight one another. The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination. - 22 Comments

Pregnant whales in mass slaughter in the Antarctic

Jun 24, 2009 - Public post ++++++++++++++ http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25682140-38196,00.html?referrer=email&source=eDM_newspulse Pregnant whales in mass slaughter in the Antarctic The Daily TelegraphJune 24, 2009 12:01am ALMOST a third of the whales Japan harpooned in the Antarctic last summer were pregnant, it was claimed yesterday, The Daily Telegraph reports. Conservation group Humane Society International (HSI) said Japan's own figures, revealed in secret documents discovered at the International Whaling Commission meeting being held this week, showed the "true, disgusting nature" of the country's whale hunting. Japan's annual hunt, which it claims is a scientific study, took a horrific toll on female whales, the HSI said. - 12 Comments

Al Gore’s Climate of Extremes

Feb 01, 2009 - Al Gore’s Climate of Extremes [Patrick J. Michaels] Ho-hum. On January 28, in the midst of a pelting sleet storm, Al Gore told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the end is nigh from global warming. - 0 Comments

A must read for climate change enthusiasts

Jan 11, 2009 - Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age (An article from today’s Pravda) The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then the earth will return to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years. Ice cores, ocean sediment cores, the geologic record, and studies of ancient plant and animal populations all demonstrate a regular cyclic pattern of Ice Age glacial maximums which each last about 100,000 years, separated by intervening warm interglacials, each lasting about 12,000 years. - 31 Comments

Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979

Jan 05, 2009 - Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979 Michael Asher - January 1, 2009 11:31 AM Thirty years of sea ice data. The record begins at 1979, the year satellite observations began (Source: Arctic Research Center, University of Illinois) Rapid growth spurt leaves amount of ice at levels seen 29 years ago. Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close. - 8 Comments