The Winter Solstice occurred at 9:47 am Pacific Standard Time. It marked the day with the fewest hours of sunlight this year, at least in the Northern Hemisphere. The event owes its existence to the tilt of Earth’s axis as the third rock from the Sun revolves around its parent star.
In 46 BC, Julius Caesar [...]
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Nature
Ever since “ClimateGate” broke, I’ve wondered why no one has questioned the illegal hacking of these emails. THAT is an actual violation of the law. Now there is evidence that the roots of this conspiracy run even deeper.
Read more:
Climategate Cntroversy Has Echoes of Watergate, UN Says – Times Online.
Mount Kilimanjaro in June 2001 (left) and July 2009 (right).
A new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences details the rapid melting of the storied Snows of Kilimanjaro — made famous by Ernest Hemingway’s short story of the same name.
The journal Nature reports:
The snows of Kilimanjaro are rapidly disappearing and will be [...]
