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I do believe that the climate alarmists have reached the "depression" stage of grief, where they're beginning to realize that the hysteria they've built their lives around is actually rather meaningless. Popular Mechanics reports: The ocean is humanity's greatest ally in the fight against anthropogenic climate change. According to the United Nations, the world's oceans produce 50 percent of the oxygen we breathe, absorb around 30 percent of atmospheric carbon, and capture 90 percent of the excess heat produced by greenhouse emissions. Without the ocean, we'd be well and truly cooked. However, the ocean's role as a carbon sink is...

Erratic Dodgers fans took over the streets of Los Angeles to celebrate the team’s second straight World Series title early Sunday morning while police officers were struck by “industrial-sized fireworks and bottles.” Thousands of Angelenos converged around the city after the Dodgers clinched their thrilling extra innings 5-4 win in Game 7 over the Toronto Blue Jays. Police, however, were forced to deploy tear gas and less-than-lethal weapons once the rowdy revelers escalated their celebrations, the Los Angeles Police Department said. A “Dispersal Order” was declared in Downtown LA around 12:30 a.m. when police said their officers were being hit...

Scientists have recreated the conditions inside a young planet, with magma and hydrogen, and uncovered a surprising way water might form. In the early chaos of planetary formation, before crusts cooled or atmospheres settled, water might already have been bubbling into existence. Not from icy comets or far-flung asteroids, but from the blistering union of magma and hydrogen gas. That’s the picture emerging from a new study led by Carnegie Science researchers, who’ve managed to reproduce the extreme conditions of young rocky planets in a lab. Their results suggest that planets may be able to make their own water, deep...

5:13 Video of people from the UK who have traveled to America are shocked and surprised that we are not savages and are actually a welcoming people..............

Laura Torrent did not know that the tiny brown bat she caught in early 2024 would become a global milestone for biodiversity and conservation. She had suspected the small creature, caught during an expedition in Equatorial Guinea, could match a mysterious bat specimen collected more than 30 years ago, but it would take months of work and scientific review to confirm. That bat — which Torrent dubbed Pipistrellus etula — marks the 1,500th species of bat to be discovered. Bats are the second-most diverse group of mammals. Of the more than 6,800 mammal species known to scientists today, bats make...

More than 300 piles of cremated human remains have been found scattered across the Nevada desert. A man discovered them near the remote town of Searchlight, about an hour outside Las Vegas, on July 28. A team from Palm Mortuaries and Cemeteries arrived at the scene on Wednesday to remove the piles. They found about 315 sets of ashes and placed them each in individual urns. It comes after officials launched an initial investigation which confirmed in August that the mounds were human, 8 News Now reported. However, no traceable information could be salvaged from the 'cremains' - a term...

The U.S. has only "scratched the surface" of its oil potential, with new technologies and untapped resources emerging that could help cement America’s energy dominance for years to come. "The biggest opportunity is to recover more of the molecules that are in the ground," Chevron CEO Mike Wirth told FOX Business in an exclusive interview. Currently, only about 10% of the oil in place can be extracted with existing technology — a figure Chevron aims to increase. Wirth told FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo that the company is investing in a new generation of drilling innovations, including artificial intelligence-powered systems and...

A new phase in India’s mineral development strategy is taking shape in the eastern state of Odisha, where exploratory studies have identified up to 20 metric tons of gold deposits across several districts. The discovery, led by the Geological Survey of India (GSI), marks the most significant gold find in the region to date and has triggered preparations for the state’s first public auction of a gold mining block. While modest by global standards, the reserves are seen as strategically relevant in a country that remains heavily reliant on gold imports, with annual volumes consistently exceeding 700 metric tons, according...

Greek scientists have confirmed a rare genetic event deep in the wild—one that blurs the line between domestic and untamed. A team of Greek wildlife biologists has confirmed the country’s first genetically verified wolf-dog hybrid, identified during a multi-year study of wild wolf populations. The animal, discovered in the forests of northern Greece, carries a genetic profile of 55% domestic dog and 45% gray wolf, according to data released by the conservation group Callisto. The finding was made during an analysis of 50 biological samples collected from wolves across mainland Greece. DNA sequencing revealed one specimen with clear hybrid characteristics....

Think of swimming 2.4 miles in the ocean, afterwards riding a bike 112 miles and then running a 26.2-mile marathon, in a single day under 17-hours or be disqualified. I could not complete one of those events, much less all 3 in a single day. Then I read about this 80-year-old Grandmother who became the oldest woman to complete the Ironman Triathlon in Kona, Hawaii. Remarkably, this 80-year-old woman didn't learn to swim until she was 59 years old. Here is a video of her finishing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTNb1VVnPKM Here's another article on her training routine leading up to the Ironman. https://www.self.com/story/oldest-woman-ironman-world-championship

“This disproves the claim we don't know anything about the deep sea." VIDEO AT LINK.............. It might be much of a looker, but this is one of the deepest fish ever seen on camera. Image Credit: Minderoo-UWA Deep Sea Research Centre ====================================================================== In 2023, scientists captured fish at depths exceeding 8 kilometers (4.8 miles) and recorded them even deeper. These findings not only set new records for deep-sea fish, but also suggest we may be nearing the maximum depths at which fish can exist. At the western edge of the Pacific Ocean lies a series of trenches down to 11,000...

The smell wafted through the air in the October sunshine. At least one Harvard scientist has likened it to “rancid butter and vomit,” while Jennifer Iida, a spokesperson for Sacramento’s Department of General Services, called it downright “pungent and unpleasant.” It was the sweet aroma of two 75-year-old ginkgo trees in California State Capitol Park, and it’s gotten so bad, officials have taken matters into their own hands, surrounding the trees with metal barriers affixed with zip-tied and laminated signs to ward the public away. As the Sacramento Bee first reported, the issue isn’t just the odor. It’s the slip...

It won’t catch any fish, but the discovery of as many as 20,000 silver coins and pieces of jewelry dates back to the early Middle Ages. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A fisherman digging for worms at his summer home in Sweden instead discovered over 13 pounds of buried silver treasure. The hoard comes from the early Middle Ages, and includes mostly coins (and some jewelry). The entire cache of silver was tucked inside a copper pot. A Swedish fisherman searching for gooey, juicy worms to use as bait near his summer home near Stockholm instead...

NASA's X-59 just made history with its first flight, and it could revolutionize the future of air travel by making supersonic flight quieter than ever! On October 29, 2025, NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic jet made its long-awaited first flight, soaring above the Mojave Desert from Palmdale Regional Airport in California. This experimental jet, developed by NASA in collaboration with Lockheed Martin, is designed to break the sound barrier without causing the disruptive sonic booms that have long hindered supersonic travel. The success of this flight is a crucial step towards a future where supersonic flights over land might become commonplace....

First Strike - Overview of 1980s Nuclear Retaliatory Response Scenario (Full Version) . Association of Air Force Missileers (AAFM. 1,132 Comments. 327,371 views Jan 5, 2022 Show less Video includes Minuteman ICBM operations, Airborne Launch Control System (Looking Glass) and other Strategic Air Command and U.S. Navy resources that would have been brought to the fight if America was attacked. This is the full version of the video .. Presented from the archives of the Association of Air Force Missileers (AAFM) www.afmissileers.org tonight you will be the victim of a nuclear attack by the russians. we might pay particular notes...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers sought unanimous consent approval for a bill that would stop the changing of the clocks. ============================================================== Sen. Tom Cotton wasn’t fast enough in 2022 to block Senate passage of legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent. Three years later, he wasn’t about to repeat that same mistake. The Arkansas Republican was on hand Tuesday afternoon to thwart a bipartisan effort on the chamber floor to pass a bill that would put an end to changing the clocks twice a year, including this coming Sunday. “If permanent Daylight Savings Time becomes the law of the...

Jamaica has today been declared a 'disaster area' after Hurricane Melissa wreaked havoc on the island leaving a trail of destruction before the storm slammed into Cuba. Entire towns have been left underwater and tens of thousands of tourists remain trapped after Melissa, the most powerful storm in the Caribbean's modern history, tore into the nation yesterday. Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness said the island was a 'disaster area' as he seeks to 'prevent any exploitation at a time when citizens are securing food, water and supplies' in the midst of the tragedy. Some 15,000 Jamaicans are hunkered down in...

* J.D. Power predicts a 60% EV sales drop in October from September levels. * Decline follows expiration of federal tax credits that boosted affordability. * EVs will make up 5.2% of new sales, down from September’s record 12.9%. ============================================================= There was no getting around the fact that EV sales would take a massive blow without government subsidies. $7,500 is no small amount of cash, and tacking it onto the price of a car will make most vehicles way less appealing. If J.D. Power is right, the loss of that credit has had an even larger impact on the EV...

We spoke to the Dogs of Chernobyl program to find out what's going on. Three blue dogs were pictured in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone on October 6, 2025. Image courtesy of Clean Futures Fund Dogs with blue fur have been spotted snooping in Chernobyl, the restricted area surrounding the epicenter of the infamous nuclear disaster. Rest assured, the dogs have not changed color due to any freakish mutation from decades of radiation – the explanation is likely to be far more mundane, if not a little bit gross. Speaking to IFLScience, researchers from the Dogs of Chernobyl program confirmed that...

What we know Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane around 1 p.m. ET, according to the National Hurricane Center. The Category 5 storm is the most powerful of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, and the hurricane center said it was "one of the most powerful hurricane landfalls on record in the Atlantic basin." Maximum sustained winds from Melissa are near 185 mph, according to the latest data from the hurricane center, with widespread damage expected to property and infrastructure. At least seven hurricane-related deaths have been reported across the Caribbean so far, with three each...