Opal stone found in Meteorite recovered from Antarctica reveal asteroids brought water to Earth and other top stories.

• Opal stone found in Meteorite recovered from Antarctica reveal asteroids brought water to Earth

  

  Scientists believe that meteorites and asteroids brought water to the Earth nearly a billion year ago that made our planet habitable. Now a team of researchers has found something strange in Antarctica that further confirms the age-old belief. Researchers have discovered small pieces of the mineral opal within a brecciated ureilite meteorite in Antarctica. Opal is the hydrated form of silica and is vastly associated with water as it contains 30 percent water. Presence of opal crystals on the ..

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• Goodbye Penguins? Antarctica Could Lose Its Adélie Penguins Due To Climate Change

  

  Jul 01, 2016 05:41 AM EDT Adélie penguins (Psygoscelis adeliae) are incredibly resilient birds, having survived the harsh Antarctica conditions for nearly 45,000 years. But a new research suggests that the present changing climate--much of it is human-induced--may wipe out many of their colonies in the icy continent. The study from researchers from the University of Delaware discovered that up to 60 percent of the Adélie penguin population could be killed off by 2099 due to habitat loss. Thi..

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• Dry Amazon Could See Record Fire Season

  

  The Amazon is ready to burn. After an unusually dry rainy season, the southern section of the rainforest is heading into winter with the largest moisture deficit since 1998. This has set the stage for an unusually intense fire season, according to a forecast issued on June 29 that is based on sea-surface temperature trends in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. “The region is primed to have record fire activity,” says forecast co-author Douglas Morton, a remote-sensing expert at NASA’s Goddard Spac..

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• Recent Hydrothermal Activity May Explain Ceres' Brightest Area

  

  The brightest area on Ceres, located in the mysterious Occator Crater, has the highest concentration of carbonate minerals ever seen outside Earth, according to a new study from scientists on NASA's Dawn mission. The study, published online in the journal Nature, is one of two new papers about the makeup of Ceres. "This is the first time we see this kind of material elsewhere in the solar system in such a large amount," said Maria Cristina De Sanctis, lead author and principal investigat..

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• Genetically Modified Crops: Over 100 Nobel Laureates Urge Greenpeace To Stick To Science, End GMO-Bashing

  

  A team of over 100 Nobel laureates have, in an open letter to Greenpeace, urged the environmental group to “cease and desist” its campaign against genetically modified crops and food. In the letter, released Thursday, the Nobel laureates singled out Greenpeace’s opposition to “Golden Rice” — a strain of genetically modified rice that contains a gene that boosts the production of vitamin A precursor beta-carotene.“Organizations opposed to modern plant breeding, with Greenpeace at their lead, have..

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• NASA's Juno and JEDI prepare to unlock the mysteries of Jupiter

  

  NASA is sending the Juno spacecraft to Jupiter, to peer beneath its cloudy surface and explore the giant planet's structure and magnetic field. Credit: NASA. On board NASA's Juno spacecraft—which is set to enter Jupiter's orbit on July 4—are ...

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• Nonstop Flight: How The Frigatebird Can Soar For Weeks Without Stopping

  

  Frigatebirds have to find ways to stay aloft because they can't land on the water. This bird was flying between the Galapagos islands of Santiago and Bartolome. Harvey Barrison/Flickr hide caption toggle caption Harvey Barrison/Flickr Frigatebirds have to find ways to stay aloft because they can't land on the water. This bird was flying between the Galapagos islands of Santiago and Bartolome. ..

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• Bright spot: Antarctica's ozone hole is starting to heal

  

  WASHINGTON –  Antarctica's ozone hole finally is starting to heal, a new study finds. In a triumph of international cooperation over a man-made environmental problem, research from the United States and the United Kingdom shows that the September-October ozone hole is getting smaller and forming later in the year. And the study in Thursday's journal Science also shows other indications that the ozone layer is improving after it was being eaten away by chemicals in aerosols and refrigerants. Ozo..

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• The imploding cabal to criminalize climate dissent

  

  New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and his fellow greenies are getting a lesson about the dangers of believing their own propaganda. These know-it-alls claim there’s a “consensus” on climate change and what to do about it. And they believe that consensus is so broad that even prosecuting dissent would be a slam-dunk. Claude Walker’s monumental crash-and-burn this week blew up that theory. Schneiderman and his ideological pals, from Al Gore to Hillary Clinton, would be wise to take not..

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