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December 16, 2014
President Obama just took action to protect one of Alaska's most powerful economic engines and one of America’s greatest national treasures: Bristol Bay. Today, he signed a Presidential Memorandum that withdraws these beautiful and pristine waters from all future oil and gas drilling. "These waters are too special and too valuable to auction off to the highest bidder," the President said.
November 21, 2014
Press-service of the Uralkali Company has published pictures of a giant sinkhole in the ground resulting from flooding of the Solikamsk-2 mine (Perm region, Russia).
November 14, 2014
A map released today by NASA's Near Earth Object (NEO) Program reveals that small asteroids frequently enter and disintegrate in the Earth's atmosphere with random distribution around the globe. Released to the scientific community, the map visualizes data gathered by U.S. government sensors from 1994 to 2013. The data indicate that Earth's atmosphere was impacted by small asteroids, resulting in a bolide (or fireball), on 556 separate occasions in a 20-year period. Almost all asteroids of this size disintegrate in the atmosphere and are usually harmless.
November 12, 2014
Monitoring efforts along the Pacific Coast of the U.S. and Canada have detected the presence of small amounts of radioactivity from the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident 100 miles (150 km) due west of Eureka, California. Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) found the trace amounts of telltale radioactive compounds as part of their ongoing monitoring of natural and human sources of radioactivity in the ocean.
November 10, 2014
Verdict overturned for Italian geoscientists convicted of manslaughter. An appeals court in Italy has overturned the 2012 manslaughter conviction handed down to seven prominent scientists and engineers following a devastating earthquake in 2009. The decision came as a surprise—and a relief—to many of the accused’s colleagues, who worried that pressure from the community, victims’ families, and local press would compel the court to agree with the earlier decision.
November 09, 2014
Miniustry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation presents ARCTIC DAYS in MOSCOW. Festival that combine next events: III International Festival of Nonfiction Films ‘The Arctic’ (20-23 November 2014; RAS Central House of Scientists, 16 Prechistenka, Moscow), International Scientific Conference ‘The Open Arctic’ (20-21 November 2014; RAS Central House of Scientists, 16 Prechistenka, Moscow), Photo exhibition ‘The Arctic – Day and Nig
October 20, 2014
The six Italian scientists and one government official who were convicted of manslaughter in relation to statements they made before the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake in Italy are back in court to appeal the ruling.
October 14, 2014
NASA Study Finds 1934 Had Worst Drought of Last Thousand Years. A new study using a reconstruction of North American drought history over the last 1,000 years found that the drought of 1934 was the driest and most widespread of the last millennium.
September 21, 2014
Persistent growth of CO2 emissions and emplications for reaching climate targets.
September 17, 2014
The plan to nuke the Moon and other Cold War plots revealed in secret documents have been published by Newsweek.