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“The largest concentration of methane emissions seen in the U.S. over the past decade has been detected by satellite over the most active coal-bed methane production area in the country — the Four Corners area of New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona,” according to a new study published Thursday. The following is an October 9, 2014 Climate Central report by science journalist, Bobby Magill, with the title above:...

A team of scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have made the most detailed global map yet of the glow from a planet orbiting another star, revealing secrets of air temperatures and water. The following news release by hubblesite.org was posted on October 9, 2014, with the title above: The map provides information about temperatures at different layers of the world’s atmosphere and traces the amount and...

Many Western explorers and navigators were pirates, in one form or another – Sir Francis Drake, who managed the second circumnavigation of the world, is a blatant example. Christopher Columbus gets a lot of credit for his explorations, even though he was a seriously flawed human being (see “The truth about Christopher Columbus”). And we all know about The Pirates of the Caribbean and its supernatural pirates and...