The sun is acting strangely lately, which may be endangering the earth we are celebrating today. Now the sun is throwing off huge “burps” of burning debris called Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), which NASA has observed ripping the tail off of a comet. They may also affect satellite communications and power grids here on earth, as well as the control gear on airplanes. What’s going on?
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In celebration of Earth Day, we are wishing “happy birthday” to the world’s oldest trees. There is a tree living in a secret location in California which is 5,000 years old. Now scientists have discovered a group of pine trees in Sweden which are 8,000 years old?probably the world’s oldest living trees!

Niklas Pollard quotes researcher Lars Hedlund as saying, “These were the first woods that grew after the Ice Age. That means that when you speak of climate change today, you can in these (trees) see pretty much every single climate change that has occurred.”

If you want to learn the secrets of the past, then William Henry is the Dreamland host for you! (And he can also tell you what’s likely to happen in the future).

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Now that the cellphones that people are carrying around have CAMERAS in them, a lot more people are snapping photos of UFOs! Recently, these have been taken in Michigan, Scotland and Argentina. We’ve included the links, so YOU can see them too!

Saginaw, Michigan resident Matthew B. Mook was taking a picture of a sunset with a regular digital camera when he shot a photo of a UFO. In the Saginaw News, Cole Waterman quotes Mook as saying, “I know what it’s not: It’s not a plane.”

To see the photo, click here.
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Is NASA keeping the danger of a potential impact secret? – A 13-year-old German boy working on a science project recently corrected NASA’s estimates on the chances of an asteroid hitting the earth. He figured out that there is a 1 in 450 chance that the Apophis asteroid will hit us, while NASA claims that the odds are only 1 in 45,000.
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