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Archive: Mon Aug 2014

Craters in Siberia – A Cause for Concern?

Thawing Siberian PermafrostNASA Goddard Space Flight Center / CC BY Large quantities of carbon in the form of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane are trapped within and beneath polar permafrost, the layer of frozen ground that has not thawed for millennia.…

Space Faring Plankton: Fact or Fiction?

From Scientists find traces of sea plankton on ISS surface Plankton, similar to those that have allegedly been found on the surface of the International Space Station. A recent article published by the Russian News Agency ITAR-TASS has made the…