Environment

NASA have said that a ‘small’ asteroid currently heading towards Earth is likely to be a “close shave”, and have expressed concern over the mysterious nature of this unusual piece of rock.  Asteroid 2013 TX68 will pass the Earth on March 5, and although scientists are convinced it is ‘unlikely’ to hit us, they say that any potential impact would be catastrophic. Nationalgeographic.com reports: It could pass at a distance of 9 million miles (14 million km), which is a comfortable 35 times farther than the moon. Or it could come as close as 11,000 miles (17,000 km).

A mysterious ear-piercing shrieking sound has left an Oregon neighborhood completely baffled. The loud sound randomly rings near Gales Creek Road, Forest Grove, Oregon. KOIN6 reports: Paula Lynch tells KOIN she first heard the noise about two weeks ago. Since then, she’s heard it four other times. Her neighbor has heard it three times. Both Lynch and her neighbor, who asked that her name not be used, describe the sound as loud and like a warning alarm. “It’s hard to identify what angle its coming from because it just kind of encompasses the area,” Lynch said.

The ‘bride of frankenfood’ has just got an endorsement from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for supporting genetically modified food. Hillary Clinton is coming under increasing pressure following a series of revelations regarding her ties to the Biotech industry and Monsanto. Natural Society reports: Clinton’s unyielding support was once again revealed recently when she was quoted on the Cornell Alliance for Science (funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) website saying: “I stand in favor of using seeds and products that have a proven track record.

Submitted by Claire Bernish via TheAntiMedia.org,

Though fracking industry proponents scoff at any intimation their so-called vital industry poses even scant risks to the public, a new study published in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology just proved those critics right — fracking wastewater causes cancer.

Using human bronchial epithelial cells, which are commonly used to measure the carcinogenesis of toxicants, researchers confirmed fracking flowback water from the Marcellus Shale caused the formation of malignancies.

Scientists studying the remains of a human-like species nicknamed the “hobbits“, say that they were not Home sapiens. The mysterious human-like species died out on the Indonesian island of Flores over 15,000 years ago.