Buried CO2 May Cause Quakes

July 26, 2012
Burying carbon dioxide in the ground or even in the ocean has been proposed as one of the solutions to the greenhouse gas problem BUT there's evidence that it may lead to earthquakes. In Bloomberg News, Jim Efstathiou Jr. quotes... continued

The REAL Secret of Easter Island

July 26, 2012
It's not those mysterious statues, it's something in the dirt that surrounds them. When researchers added rapamycin to the diet of healthy mice throughout their life span, their learning and memory was enhanced when they were young and actually IMPROVED... continued

Greenland is Melting

July 26, 2012
NASA satellites reveal that the surface of Greenland's massive ice sheet has melted this month over an unusually large area. NASA has been monitoring the Greenland melt for 30 years, and they're calling this one "unprecedented," partly because it's so... continued

Learn the Secret of Orenda

July 26, 2012
You may think you've read everything that Whitley Strieber has written, but you HAVEN'T, because his beautiful novel The Secret of Orenda, a thriller about a lost Indian tribe that remembers the secrets of the past, has just been published.... continued

Your Car Has a Black Box Too

July 25, 2012
When investigators look through the wreckage of a crashed airplane, one of the first things they search for is the "black box" (which is actually painted orange), because it recorded what happened to the plane during its last half hour... continued

Bug Phones

July 25, 2012
We know that plants communicate with "clicks." Now it turns out that the insects that live on these plants use the soil they grow in to leave "voicemail" messages with each other in the fungi in the soil. Insects can... continued

Overrun by Mice

July 24, 2012
Think YOU'VE got mice? MILLIONS of field mice are overrunning farms in Germany, gobbling up crops and reducing yields by as much as 50%. It's the worst mouse plague in over 30 years. Getting birds of prey to hunt the... continued

US Drought Means World May Starve

July 24, 2012
The US is going through the worst drought in half a century. Since we feed the world, this could lead to a global crisis as crop shortages push food prices up. The US supplies half the world's corn exports and... continued

Spying at the Olympics

July 24, 2012
Spying is not only going on at the Olympics (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), it's RAMPANT. France is using the internet to check out the competition. Someone from the US cycling team secretly rode the competition course... continued

Wildfires Sparked by Climate Change

July 23, 2012
Climate Change dried out Colorado--hardly any snow fell in the winter, then spring rains didn't come. A spark was all that was needed to start a raging wildfire. In the July 1st edition of the Washington Post, Darryl Fears writes,... continued