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Widespread bleaching of the world?s coral reefs has spread fear that global warming, and the subsequent warming of the oceans, may kill off the coral, which is essential to ocean ecology. But according to Andrew Baker, of the New York Aquarium in Brooklyn, the bleaching may be a risky gamble by corals to adapt to warmer seas.

Reef-building corals contain algae that interact with the sun and help feed the coral, in exchange for a place to stay. But if the light or temperature changes, corals often evict the algae. Since the algae contain the pigments that give corals their color, the reefs are left bleached.
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African dust clouds that cross the Atlantic into south Florida during the dry season every year, producing beautiful sunsets, may harbor dangerous bacteria and fungi that are dangerous to inhale.

The dust originates in the Sahara Desert and contains fine particles of dry topsoil. It is transported by winds and can be carried more than 10,000 feet in the air. The clouds of dust reach the southern U.S. and the Caribbean in about 5 to 7 days. Florida receives more than 50 percent of the microbe-carrying African dust.
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US forces in the Persian Gulf are on their highest alert level due to a threat of attack against American civilian or military personnel. “Threat Condition Delta” was declared in the area, meaning that all US military elements are prepared for attack and civilian personnel are observing all possible security measures.

On Thursday the US announced indictments against fourteen people believed implicated in the bombing of Khobar Towers, an air force barracks in Saudi Arabia five years ago. Nineteen US Air Force personnel were killed in the blast.

As part of the same announcement, Iranian officials were accused of being behind the bombing, but no indictments of Iranian nationals were issued.
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A SOLAR SUMMER SOLSTICE and King Surids Dream of an end to the world by fire in July 2001 (19 June 2001)

Dear friends, Today on the eve of the summer solstice the Solar Maximum continues unabated. The astronomers had predicted that February would see the unusually powerful plague of solar flares settle down once the magnetic field of the sun’s poles made their regular 11-year axis shift. That was over four months ago. The sun’s feverish sunspot and solar flare activity continue exhaling magnetic storms against Earth’s invisible girdle of magnetic fields, disturbing weather patterns and the power grid. At night, the sun continues to be a dragon breathing a breath of plasma fires over Earth’s polar skies.
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