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Mt. Everest is Shrinking
December 6, 2000UPI, London Telegraph, Xinhua, Drudge - Mount Everest, the world?s highest mountain peak, is shrinking as a result of global warming. Researchers at China?s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping discovered that the thickness of snow of Everest?s peak has... continued
World’s Smallest Polluters To Take Biggest Hit
December 6, 2000Countries that pollute the least will suffer the most from global warming. The newly formed Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research in Britain predicts that some countries will warm up more than twice as much as others during the coming... continued
Rising Seas Peril Lowlands, Islands
December 6, 2000New Scientist, NYT - The waters are rising. We may soon say goodbye to Tuvalu and Kiribati. Goodbye the Maldives (and Florida). And goodbye Holland, which is especially unfair for the nation that is hosting the UN summit on global... continued
Mars Discovery ‘Of Huge Importance’
December 5, 2000High resolution NASA photos of Mars show evidence of ancient lakes and shallow seas. Why is this important? Because these are perfect places to discover fossils. In 1996, what may be microfossils were discovered in a Martian meteorite that had... continued
Weird Material Covers Florida Property
December 5, 2000'Sticky stuff' that police say they found covering a family?s home, car and yard in Fruit Cove, Florida on November 13 has health experts baffled. Police officials say they don?t know what to make of the incident and neither does... continued
Alien Bacteria May Have Been Found
December 4, 2000UPI, London Daily Mail - Scientists in Wales have discovered a tiny form of life that may have been dropped into Earth?s atmosphere by a passing comet. Researchers say that in the filter of a high-flying balloon, operated by the... continued
Men Don’t Listen? What?
December 4, 2000A Special Report from Anne Strieber I knew it! An Associated Press story from November 29, 2000 says that men really do listen with only half their brains. In a study of 10 men and 10 women, brain scans showed... continued
Lumeloid May Spark Clean Energy Revolution
December 3, 2000In Whitley Strieber's 1984 book Nature's End, he mentioned a revolutionary new solar energy converter called Lumeloid by its inventor, Dr. Alvin Marks. This material was capable of converting sunlight into electricity at a 50% efficiency rate. As such, it... continued
More on the Vote: A Floridian Speaks Out
December 1, 2000A number of Whitleysworld fans have taken strong exception to our story about the impending civil rights suits in Florida. We are therefore printing a representative sample letter as a news story in order to give it equal billing with... continued
Companies Admit Genseed Can’t Be Controlled
December 1, 2000NYT - After Genetically contaminated StarLink corn, which can only be fed to cattle, was recently found in the corn used in taco shells, American seed manufacturers have admitted that they cannot control the spread of Genseed and can?t guarantee... continued