With a couple of stories from the deep south. Antarctica is a wonderful place, but given my extreme allergy to cold weather, I suspect it will always have to do without me. However, the health of that ice cap is important to the whole world and there’s some interesting and disturbing news from there. Dive in and join us on THE DEEP! MORE>>

Continuing its pattern of intermittent activity, Anatahan Volcano released more ash and steam on February 10, 2008. The MODIS on NASA's Aqua satellite took this picture the same day. This picture shows the volcano plume meandering away from the volcano toward the northwest, spreading out as it goes. MORE>>

Australian scientists have recently discovered something interesting about ancient Asian and Pacific trading routes. They've discovered that virtually all the jade found all over Southeast Asia, the islands of Indonesia and Malaysia and Australia come from mines in Taiwan. .. Dive in and join us on THE DEEP! MORE>>

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health are predicting a dire consequence from global warming (see, I can't do one of these articles without at least mentioning it!); the spread of dengue fever into the mainland US. Dengue was previously confined to the tropics but it's becoming a serious problem along the U.S.-Mexico border and in our sister colony, Puerto Rico.. .. Dive in and join us on THE DEEP! MORE>>