News
November 10, 2015
The British Met Office said global temperatures in January-September were 1.02 C above the 1850-1900 average, adding that the remainder of the year is expected to remain hot because of the El Nino weather phenomenon. "We've had similar natural events in the past, yet this is the first time we're set to reach the 1 degree C marker and it's clear that it is human influence driving our modern climate into uncharted territory," said Stephen Belcher, director of the Met Office Hadley Centre for climate science.
November 05, 2015
Geoethics was 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).
November 04, 2015
Scientists confirm their fears about West Antarctica - that it’s inherently unstable. It may be the biggest climate change story of the last two years. In 2014, several research groups suggested that the oceanfront glaciers in the Amundsen Sea region of West Antarctica may have reached a point of “unstoppable” retreat due to warm ocean waters melting them from below. There’s a great deal at stake — West Antarctica is estimated to contain enough ice to raise global sea levels by 3.3 meters, or well over 10 feet, were it all to melt.
November 3, 2015
Amnesty International claims that the oil giant Shell has not cleaned up oil spills in the Niger Delta, despite the firm's promises to do so. "When you visit these communities, the first thing you notice is the stench of crude oil," says Makmid Kamara, a business and human rights campaigner at Amnesty International. The environmental clean up of the Niger Delta, the biggest oil-producing region in Africa, is long overdue, Kamara told.
October 28, 2015
Chinese state media has dubbed the United States a “paper tiger” and says it is “playing with fire” after sending its warship close to China’s artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea. Its actions early on Tuesday morning led to numerous angry commentaries in mainland newspapers.
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.