News
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.
September 11, 2014
The ozone layer that shields the earth from cancer-causing ultraviolet rays is showing early signs of thickening after years of depletion, a UN study says. The ozone hole that appears annually over Antarctica has also stopped growing bigger every year. The report says it will take a decade before the hole starts to shrink. Scientists say the recovery is entirely due to political determination to phase out the man-made CFC gases destroying ozone.
September 10, 2014
The launch of a NASA ocean winds sensor to the International Space Station (ISS) this month inaugurates a new era of Earth observation that will leverage the space station's unique vantage point in space. Before the end of the decade, six NASA Earth science instruments will be mounted to the station to help scientists study our changing planet.
August 24, 2014
7,500 people from 27 countries have formed an 8-kilometer human chain across the German-Polish border to protest opencast brown coal mining, which could entail the destruction of villages in both countries.
The line was formed between the villages of Kerkwitz in Germany, and Grabice in Poland on Saturday. Residents of the two communities, home to some 3,000 people, fear they could be resettled to make way for more brown coal mines as a result of investments by a group of energy companies, including Polish giant PGE.
August 25, 2014
Residents of northern California are bracing for aftershocks after a magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit near Napa Valley Sunday, injuring at least 172 people and causing extensive damage, including fires sparked by burst gas lines, in the largest tremor to rock the Bay Area since the magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta quake in 1989. Aftershocks were expected to continue for several weeks, though State Geologist John Parrish told the Associated Press that they would decrease in magnitude and it was unlikely that there would be a large follow-up earthquake.
August 23, 2014
Amel Barich, IAGETH National Chapter (Morocco) elected as new IUGS Councillor (2014-2018). Amel Barich received a B.Sc. and a M.Sc.
August 21, 2014
Environmental authorities in the Komi region (Russia) upheld Greenpeace Russia’s proposals on how to amend the gaps in regulations that let the oil pour from old, rusty pipelines. They plan to forward them to the provincial parliament and then to the Russian State Duma to develop amendments on the federal level, with the aim that irresponsible oil business will be held liable.