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Largest Bird Colony on Florida Gulf Coast Disappears Overnight

July 13, 2015
Linda Moulton Howe, Reporter and Editor of Earthfiles.com, has a video news update about the unprecedented disappearance from late May to now of an entire colony of nesting birds from Seahorse Key on Florida's Gulf coast 60 miles southwest of... continued

Massive Heat Dome Threatens Arctic

July 12, 2015
Despite the retreat of Arctic sea ice not being as pronounced so far this summer as it has been in previous years, a massive heat wave is forecast to move over the Arctic soon, threatening to hasten this season's ice... continued

The West is Burning: Canada Wildfires Reach Historic Proportions

July 10, 2015
Scores of wildfires are burning across the Western Canadian wilderness, with more than 2 million hectares of woodland currently burning. 1,400 soldiers have been called into Saskatchewan alone, to relieve the 600 exhausted firefighters that have been battling the province-wide... continued

British MoD to Release Withheld Rendlesham Forest Incident Documents

July 9, 2015
As part of the planned release of a new batch of declassified UFO documents by the British Ministry of Defense next March, eighteen files referring to the Rendlesham Forest incident in 1980 are expected to be included. UFO investigators are... continued

Network Malfunctions Stop NY Stock Exchange, United Airlines

July 9, 2015
United Airlines and the New York Stock Exchange have both announced that they have shut down operations due to computer problems. United shut down on Tuesday, and the FAA said at 9 a.m. yesterday that an automation problem had been... continued

Quantum Computing is Now Real: Super Smart Machines Just Ahead

July 8, 2015
Quantum computing's elusive promise has always been computing power that approaches the infinite, and machines that are not just as intelligent as human beings, but far smarter. But building a computer that takes advantage of quantum indeterminacy has been difficult--until... continued

New Insight Article: A Crop Formation with an Ominous Warning

July 5, 2015
On June 28 in a field near Torino, Italy, a magnificent crop formation appeared. Like the Crabwood formation of 2002, this formation contains at least one message, and the one that we have thus far been able to translate should... continued

Collapsing Glaciers Causing Massive Earthquakes in Greenland

July 2, 2015
As Greenland's glaciers melt, gigantic chunks of ice are breaking off. They are so large that they are causing powerful earthquakes as they tumble into the ocean. A team of researchers from Swansea University in the UK, the Lamont-Doherty Earth... continued

What Makes Us Love Dogs? Those EYES!

June 30, 2015
Researchers at the Companion Animal Research Lab at Azabu University in Japan have found that dogs have found a way to tap into a human bonding mechanism, specifically through the hormone 'oxytocin'. Oxytocin is typically released when a parent gazes... continued

Arctic Methane Release Getting Worse

June 29, 2015
Over the past few months, Arctic reporting stations have been reporting an unexpected increase in the outgassing of methane from thawing permafrost. Methane is an extremely potent greenhouse gas. In the past, the sudden release of methane from arctic tundras... continued