News
October 28, 2015
Geoethics will be present in the IX Geological Congress of Spain, Huelva, Spain. Geoethics is for the first time included in the Geological Congress of Spain. A special symposium entitled Geoethics (Session S6) will be included in the program of the congress which will be held in Campus del Carmen, University of Huelva, Huelva (Spain), from 12-14 September 2016. Two IAGETH members will be part of the coordination committee of the symposium (José Luis González, ISAB member and President of the Spanish
October 26, 2015
A magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck southern Asia on Monday afternoon, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Local news agencies quickly reported death tolls in the dozens, though exact numbers were hard to collect as communications were down in many places. But in one province alone -- Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province -- at least 71 people were killed, Amir Afaq, director general of the provincial disaster management authority, told CNN. At least 589 people were injured. Afghan broadcaster Tolo TV showed images of collapsed structures.
October 25, 2015
October 05, 2015
The gangly arms of four backhoes dug through a mound of sandy soil that had buried many of the residents of El Cambray alive in a landslide. Carefully, the diggers turned up sheet metal roofs, broken walls and the bodies of people trapped in the dirt bulging over much of the Guatemalan village. By early Sunday, they had recovered nearly 90 bodies of people who died after the side of a towering hill broke loose suddenly and crashed down on the village in the darkness of Thursday night.
October 04, 2015
Curiosity Mars rover drilled its eighth hole on Mars, and its fifth since reaching Mount Sharp one year ago. The drilling of the hole 2.6-inches (65 millimeters) deep in a rock the team labeled "Big Sky" is part of a multi-day, multi-step sequence that will result in the analysis of the Martian rock's ingredients in the rover's two onboard laboratories - the Chemistry and Mineralogy X-Ray diffractometer (CheMin) and the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite.
October 03, 2015
Elon Musk has made no secret of his desire to colonize and, perhaps, travel to Mars. Now, the possible discovery of liquid water on the red planet has reenergized his affection for it and now he's trying to clarify his idea for heating up the planet with nuclear bombs. Musk's goal isn't to blow up Mars in the hopes of heating it up enough for livability. No, he wants to launch fusion bombs into the sky over Mars' two poles to create tiny pulse suns. These suns would be similar to our own sun, but would only last for a short while.
September 23, 2015
The European Federation of Geologists (EFG) and IAGETH have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the European Federation of Geologists (EFG) and the International Association of Geoethics (IAGETH) was signed on the 16th September 2015 by the Presidents of the two organizations, Dr. Vítor Correia (EFG) 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.
September 22, 2015
Climate change could cost trillions more in damages, because of thawing Arctic permafrost. As global warming thaws perpetually frozen Arctic land called permafrost (pictured), the greenhouse gases trapped within will escape, ramping up climate change’s economic toll by trillions of dollars, a new study finds. To make the calculations, researchers first determined how much carbon dioxide and methane the permafrost would release as the world warms.
September 21, 2015
IAGETH (International Association for Geoethics) organizes a session on #Geoethics @35thigc, Cape Town, South Africa "Geoethical problems & dilemmas through the prism of new challenges of time"
Submit your abstracts to our session!
http://www.icog.es/iageth/index.php/p3loki-ef/
September 20, 2015
IAGETH is happy to announce the celebration of the 4th edition of the Day of Earth Sciences in Africa and Middle East (DESAME). The African Association of Women in Geosciences and the African Geoparks Network are proclaiming the 20th March as a Day of Earth Science in Africa and Middle East, DESAME”. The day aims to increase the awareness about the role that earth scientists could play to help to build a peaceful, healthier and wealthier continent. First celebrated in 2013, DESAME is celebrated in 2016, under the thematic “Geoethics, Geoheritage, Georesources and Geoenvironment”.