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July 29, 2015
Just before 3 a.m. PT on Wednesday, 13 protesters dropped climbing ropes over the side of the St. Johns Bridge in Portland, Oregon. Then they launched themselves into space, descending the ropes until they were dangling about 100 feet above the darkened nighttime waters of the Willamette River. The result was a “human curtain” that a coalition of groups—including Greenpeace, Rising Tide, Climate Action Coalition, and 350 PDX—hope will block the departure of an icebreaker from a nearby marine repair facility.
July 20, 2015
In 2014, the most essential indicators of Earth’s changing climate continued to reflect trends of a warming planet, with several markers such as rising land and ocean temperature, sea levels and greenhouse gases ─ setting new records.
July 13, 2015
Nasa has created its very own Google Earth for Mars, allowing you to roam the surface of the Red Planet whilst keeping your feet very firmly on Earth. Mars Trek is an interactive map, composed of images taken from a number of past missions.
July 12, 2015
Galapagos Islands was named world's best by readers of the US-based Travel + Leisure magazine. The archipelago off the coast of South America was followed by Bali, Maldives, Tasmania and Santorini. Moorea, Hawaii's Maui and Kauai, the Great Barrier Reef Islands and Malta rounded out the top 10.
July 9, 2015
Volcanic Eruptions Predetermined Historical Events in the Course of Human Development.
June 26, 2015
Scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are looking to create engineered organisms to eventually transform Mars into a more Earth-like planet hospitable to human life. The DARPA goal of terraforming the Red Planet includes plans to heat up and potentially thicken Mars’ atmosphere by planting and growing green, photosynthesizing plants, bacteria and algae on the barren landscape, Vice Motherboard reports.
June 25, 2015
The International Conference on Geoethics is planned to be held in 3 segments: Prague-Pribram-Prague (Czech Republic) on October 9-19, 2015. It is expected to take objective standpoints to all main present neuralgic points of ethics and geoethics in the world in any liaison with the Earth sciences and with the needed improvement of ethical climate in Europe and in the world. Various new concepts outside main streams should be open for a discussion where constructive alternative solutions may help:
a) to accelerate the needed progress of the science;
June 24, 2015
The article “Flooding in river mouth: human caused or natural events? Five centuries of flooding events in the SW Netherlands, 1500-2000” has been published in “Hydrology and Earth system Sciences”, the interactive open-access journal of the European Geosciences Union. This paper looks into flood events of the past 500 years in the SW Netherlands, addressing the issue of what kind of flooding events have occurred and which ones have mainly natural causes and which ones are predominantly human induced.
June 19, 2015
U.S. mid-continent seismicity linked to high-rate injection wells
A dramatic increase in the rate of earthquakes in the central and eastern U.S. since 2009 is associated with fluid injection wells used in oil and gas development, says a new study by the University of Colorado Boulder and the U.S. Geological Survey.
June 15, 2015
Seattle, 15 June, 2015 - Thirteen activists in kayaks have intercepted Shell's drilling rig, the Polar Pioneer, in Seattle's Puget Sound as the rig prepared to depart for the Arctic. The Greenpeace US activists have secured themselves together to block the Polar Pioneer’s departure while additional activists join the protests on the water nearby. In May, the Obama administration approved Shell’s plan to drill for oil in the Chukchi Sea in the Alaskan Arctic. Since that approval, both Shell's rigs, the Polar Pioneer and the Noble Discoverer have failed routine inspections.