Tuvalu Is Drowning.

The tiny island nation of Tuvalu , which is located in the Pacific ocean between
Hawaii and Australia, may be the first casualty of global warming.
The arctic ice is melting, as it melts, the water level in our oceans rise. The ice
in the arctic caps is not a few inches, or a few feet thick – it’s a few miles thick.
That is a lot of frozen water. What happens when it melts? The sea levels rise
and land sinks.
As global warming causes the oceans to rise, low-lying islands like the nine
islands that make up Tuvalu are in danger of vanishing forever. Where will
these people go?
Many of them are now leaving for Australia and New Zealand. The 700,000
square mile area of the Bering Sea in the northern Pacific near Alaska is also
showing the effects. The environment around the Bering Sea has changed from
Arctic to sub-Arctic conditions. This change in the earth can no longer be ignored,
we do indeed have a real problem and it is growing.

Go here to read the story: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/03/31/tuvalu/index_np.html

Comets Break Up

Just what causes a comet to break up in space and what are the after effects?
The comet was supposed to make another return in the fall of 1995. But during October of 1995, a new comet was located by numerous observers in the evening sky. But it wasn't a "new" comet as observers first thought, it was the comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3.

The comet didn’t get as close to Earth as astronomers had and was much dimmer than expected. Its brightness had increased several hundred times.

And no one knew why. The European Southern Observatory in Chile reported that the comet’s tiny nucleus had fractured into several parts. The most likely reason they could arrive at was stress. An example of that would be pouring hot water on glass when the glass was at a freezing temperature.