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Vanuatu the volcano, on the remote South Pacific island of Ambae, erupted on Thursday - shooting steam and toxic gases 9,845 feet into the sky.
Ash was spewed above the Island to reach the greatest height seen since Mount Manaro, which cradles a volcanic lake in its crater, began eruptin...
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Neanderthals, the stocky kin of modern humans, were far more widespread geographically than previously thought, with some trekking into southern Siberia before vanishing about 30,000 years ago, scientists said on Monday. Researchers led by Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute for Evoluti...
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Tsunami WARNING for Pacific coast of U.S
Mag 7 Quake offshore. -- Edited by Blobrana at 12:53, 2005-06-15
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Goldstone Observatory
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Historic Deep Space Network Antenna Starts Major Surgery Like a hard-driving athlete whose joints need help, the giant "Mars antenna" at NASA's Deep Space Network site in Goldstone, California, has begun major, delicate surgery. The operation on the historic 70-metre-wide antenn...
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HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii
About 44 acres of coastline collapsed into the ocean this week, setting loose a glowing stream of lava that shot out from the newly exposed cliffside 45 feet above the water.
The plume, 6 feet in diameter, sent up a tower of steam as it hit the water and be...
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Auckland Volcanic Field
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Geologists Find Buried Volcano Inside Panmure Basin Geologists have found a buried volcano inside Panmure Basin, which is the mouth of a volcano that erupted about 28,000 years ago. It is extremely rare for two eruptions to have occurred at the same site in the Auckland Volcanic Field. The discover...
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Weather forecasting
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NASA satellite data and a new modelling approach could improve weather forecasting and save more lives when future cyclones develop. About 15 percent of the world's tropical cyclones occur in the northern Indian Ocean, but because of high population densities along low-lying coastlines, the st...
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Amazon
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Amazon forest 'shaped by pre-Columbian indigenous peoples' Indigenous peoples who inhabited the Amazon before the arrival of European colonisers planted a vast number of trees, a new study argues. They played an important role in the current composition of the forest, says the study. Researche...
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There are very few places in the world where dynamic activity taking place beneath Earth's surface goes undetected. Volcanoes, earthquakes, and even the sudden uplifting or sinking of the ground are all visible results of restlessness far below, but according to research by Arizona State Univer...
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NORAD
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The North American Air Defence Command (NORAD) is formed by The United States and Canada on the 1st August, 1957. Read more
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Mount Etna, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, erupted in late October 2005. In mid-November, it was still emitting a sporadic plume of ash.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flying onboard the Terra satellite captured this image of Etna on November 12, 2005....
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Higher concentrations of oxygen could produce giant insects according to a paper presented at the Comparative Physiology conference currently meeting in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
The paper, "No giants today: tracheal oxygen supply to the legs limits beetle size," based on research by a team...
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The remains of some of the most fearsome creatures that walked, crawled and slithered over ancient New Zealand are to be part of a major national exhibition – along with an interesting pile of fossilised vomit.
The display, covering the history of New Zealand fossils and fossil hunting, is bein...
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South China Sea
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China establishes South China Sea lab to explore 8-million-year-old sediments China has built a field laboratory in the northeastern South China Sea, the focus of which will primarily be deep-sea sediments from 8 million years ago. An integrated observation system of the dynamic deep-sea sedim...
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Barren Island
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Indian geologists will study molten rock samples from a volcano on a tiny island in the Bay of Bengal to find out if last week's eruption could be traced to December's earthquake and tsunami.
Since Saturday, the volcano on an uninhabited island located 135 km east of Port Blair, in the tsunami-hit A...
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