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January 25, 2016
Fragments of spent rockets and other debris orbiting the Earth pose ‘special political danger’ of damage to satellites being misconstrued as attack. The steady rise in space junk that is floating around the planet could provoke a political row and even armed conflict, according to scientists, who warn that even tiny pieces of debris have enough energy to damage or destroy military satellites.
December 22, 2015
Video: Watch 60 years of space junk accumulate in 1 minute. Humans are messy, and not just here on Earth. Now, you can see all the junk we’ve launched into space for yourself with a data-driven animation created for the United Kingdom's Royal Institution by Stuart Grey, an astronomer at University College London. It all begins in 1957 when the Soviet Union launches Sputnik, a 58.5-centimeter-wide ball emitting radio pulses. A piece of the rocket that took it into orbit was the very first piece of space junk.
December 17, 2015
International Association for Geoethics (IAGETH) supports the content and spirit of cooperation envisioned in the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
Scientists play (and will play) a vital role for Society, which is not only based on the generation of scientific knowledge, but also in taking into account and facing societal and ethical issues.
December 10, 2015
Workshop on Geoethics in the 8th International Conference on the Geology of Africa (ICGA 2015). The Geology Department of Assiut University invited scientists to gather in the capital of Upper Egypt for the Eighth International Conference on the Geology of Africa (ICGA 2015), 24-26 November 2015. This conference is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied geological sciences.
December 7, 2015
A major earthquake shook Tajikistan on Monday. The 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck at 12:50 p.m. local time on Monday in the most sparsely populated area of Tajikistan in the Hindu Kush Mountains, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported.
December 06, 2015
IAGETH, one of the signatories of the Declaration on Future Earth & Space Science and Education. As previously informed, Geoethics (and IAGETH) were present, in connection with geoeducation, in the prestigious ICTP (Trieste, Italy). The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics organized an extremely interesting and significant Conference on Future of Earth-Space Science and Education. The Conference was held in the prestigious Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).
December 05, 2015
One worker was killed, 30 were missing and 33 were rescued on Saturday after a fire swept through a Caspian Sea oil platform owned by Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR, the company said. The missing workers were in a lifeboat that fell into stormy seas, according to a joint statement issued late Saturday by SOCAR, the country’s emergency services and the prosecutor general’s office. It was unclear whether any of the missing workers would be found alive.
December 04, 2015
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Arabian Geosciences Union (ArabGU) and the International Association for Geoethics (IAGETH) was signed on the 25th November 2015 by the Presidents of the two organizations, Prof. Zakaria Hamimi (ArabGU) and Prof. Jesús Martínez-Frías (IAGETH).
The cooperation between IAGETH and EFG will allow the creation of new professional and institutional synergies on geology and geosciences and enhance their respective activities.
December 3, 2015
UK launches first Syria air strikes. RAF Tornado jets have carried out their first air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Syria, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed. Four Tornados from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus took part in the operation soon after MPs voted to approve bombing. The strikes targeted the Omar oil fields in eastern Syria, which is under IS control, and were "successful", Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said.
November 28, 2015
In 3 steps, here is what Paris can do.
The last few weeks have seen the best and the worst in terms of climate change.