Geologists recently announced that there might be more things that Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainier and Mount Adams have in common, other than the fact that they are all volcanoes. Preliminary studies seem to indicate that they draw their lava from the same enormous magma pool that spans the entire southwestern portio... |
26 October 2009
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Hundreds of minor tremors over the past few weeks, which were covered in the national US press, prompted, at the time, concerns of a massive eruption at the Yellowstone national park, although recently scientists announced that there was no reason to be worried about. But, as the phenomena continue, more and more peo... |
13 January 2009
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A series of minor tremors registered in the Yellowstone National Park has scientists worried and pondering on the possibility of a large-scale earthquake. It's not uncommon for small-intensity tremors to come in the prelude of a large shake, and seismic experts are all the more worried – thus far, the mach... |
30 December 2008
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The Environment Protection Agency is recently acting out again, seeking to modify the existing legislation, which currently prevents companies from building coal-powered plants, oil refineries, and other such heavy-polluting facilities near national parks. The EPA doesn't act like its name, but, rather, tries to... |
19 November 2008
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In 2005, the Bush administration finally managed to cancel Bill Clinton's bill, a piece of legislation that virtually banned all areas around national parks to commercial exploitation. This included a ban to building roads and phosphate mines, which would have adversely affected the environment. But this measure... |
27 October 2008
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A new study conducted between 1998 and 2006 indicates that the eruption patterns of geysers in the Yellowstone National Park, US are slowing down and could even stop as a result of global warming. Temperature readings performed on five of the geysers in the famous national park show that two of the best known of them... |
10 July 2008
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After a long hibernation period during its second Mars winter in the northern regions of the Home Plate, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is again on the move and is now investigating the Gusev Crater where it found what appears to be a deposit of pure silica similar to the one created around hydrothermal ve... |
23 May 2008
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