“God's bathtub” has allegedly been found by researchers in Australia. The “bathtub” is said to contain water that has somehow remained untouched by climate change or other human activities, hence the fact that it strikes people as stunningly clear and pristine. Before anyone g... [read more >>] The equivalent of a 7.0 magnitude earthquake has been rumbling under Wellington, New Zealand's capital city, for five months now.
Still, if it were not for a blog post put up by New Zealand's GeoNet, people living in this city probably would have remained oblivious to all the commotion taking pl... [read more >>] Chile's Copahue volcano is now threatening to erupt. Wishing to avoid any casualties, authorities have issued a red alert and have evacuated about 2,240 people living closer than 15 miles (24.14 kilometers) to the volcano.
The people have been relocated to shelters operated by either public agencies ... [read more >>] Water believed to be at least 1.5 billion years old has been discovered by a team of researchers, who detail their findings in an article published this past May 15 in the scientific journal Nature. The water was found in a mine located at about 2.4 kilometers below the Earth's surface in Ontario, Ca... [read more >>] This past Tuesday, specialists working with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and the Geology Service of Brazil announced that they might have discovered a long-lost continent. This continent, now referred to as the Brazilian Atlantis, allegedly sunk into the Atlantic Ocean quite a ... [read more >>] A team of researchers writing in the journal Nature Geoscience claim that, according to their investigations, earthquakes can cause permanent damage to our planet.
More precisely, these researchers say that strong shakes in Chile have already deformed our planet, meaning that they have caused permanent cr... [read more >>] This April 20, China's Sichuan province was hit by a major earthquake which killed dozens and injured several thousand people.
Presently, is it believed that 71 people lost their lives during this earthquake, and over 2,000 suffered significant injuries.
According to China's seismological bure... [read more >>] Entomologists and ordinary folks in the United States are now readying themselves to come face to face with billions of cicadas. The insects are expected to show up on the country's East Coast between mid-April and late May. Specialists explain that the cicadas set to soon swarm the US East Coast are... [read more >>] According to an investigation carried out by researchers working with the University of Colorado Boulder, the asteroid blamed for the dinosaurs' demise did more than just create one big crater in the ground. Apparently, this asteroid must also be held responsible for literally setting the world on fire... [read more >>] This March 25, the Journal of Fish Biology witnessed the publication of a study documenting the discovery of the first-ever two-headed bull shark. The scientists who got the chance to analyze the animal's anatomy wish to stress the fact that, rather than being conjoined twins, this shark is a two-heade... [read more >>] |
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