Beijing, China (SPX) Jun 12, 2023 It’s tough accomplishing everything we want to get done in a day. But it would have been even more difficult had we lived earlier in Earth’s history. Although we take the 24-hour day for granted, in Earth’s deep past, days were even shorter. Day length was shorter because the Moon was closer. “Over time, the Moon has stolen Earth’s … Continue reading Earth had an 19-hour day for a billion years

Beijing, China (SPX) Jun 12, 2023 Jiuzhaigou Valley of southwest Sichuan Province, China is a famous UNESCO natural heritage site that was hit by a magnitude-7.0 earthquake in August 2017. Since then, things have improved and, on June 9, 2023, scientists from the The Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said vegetation in the whole area is gradually recovering. … Continue reading Vegetation Gradually Recovering in Quake-hit Jiuzhaigou

Champaign IL (SPX) Jun 12, 2023 The seemingly stable regions of the Earth’s continental plates – the so-called stable cratons – have suffered repetitive deformation below their crust since their formation in the remote past, according to new research from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This hypothesis defies decades of conventional plate tectonics theory and begs to answer why most cratons have remained structurahttp://dlvr.it/SqbPRZ Continue reading Geologists challenge conventional view of Earth’s continental history and stability

Javari, Brazil (AFP) June 9, 2023 In a remote pocket of the Brazilian Amazon under siege from illegal fishermen, poachers, loggers and drug traffickers, Indigenous people have taken it upon themselves to defend the land and its resources. With bows, arrows and spears, young men of the Sao Luis village patrol the Javari River by motorboat in the valley of the same name. They call … Continue reading With bows and spears, Indigenous ‘warriors’ defend the Amazon

Jakarta (AFP) June 9, 2023 Indonesia’s Anak Krakatoa volcano erupted on Friday, belching a column of ash more than three kilometres into the sky, officials said. The volcanic island emerged from the sea at the beginning of the last century from the crater formed after the 1883 eruption of Mount Krakatoa – one of the deadliest and most destructive in history. Anak Krakatoa, which means … Continue reading Indonesia’s Anak Krakatoa volcano erupts, spews huge ash column

Johannesburg, South Africa (SPX) Jun 09, 2023 Cratons are pieces of ancient continents that formed several billions of years ago. Their study provides a window as to how processes within and on the surface of Earth operated in the past. Cratons preserve relics of our young Earth as they host a variety of rock assemblages such as greenstones and granites. Greenstones are rock assemblages that … Continue reading South Africa, India and Australia shared similar volcanic activity billions of years ago

Cannes, France (SPX) Jun 09, 2023 Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), will partner with Serco, the leader of the consortium awarded by the European Space Agency (ESA) to implement the DestinE Core Service Platform (DESP), a key element of the European Commission’s flagship initiative Destination Earth (DestinE). The objective of DestinE is to develop a highly accurate digital … Continue reading Thales Alenia Space joins tema to develop Destination Earth core service platform

Rome (AFP) June 9, 2023 Half a million people live on a sprawling volcano in Italy – and the risk of an eruption has never been greater, according to a study published Friday. The Campi Flegrei (Phlegraean Fields) volcano may be less well-known than Vesuvius, but is “extremely dangerous”, study co-author Stefano Carlino told AFP. Vesuvius wiped Pompeii off the map almost two millennia ago, … Continue reading Italy’s Campi Flegrei volcano near ‘breaking point’

Putrajaya, Malaysia (AFP) June 8, 2023 Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Thursday called for stronger collaboration with Malaysia to protect palm oil products threatened by a European Union trade law he termed “discrimination”. The European Parliament adopted the new legislation in April that will ban imports deemed to be driving deforestation, throwing the bloc’s trade muscle behind a global fight against climate change. Thttp://dlvr.it/SqRvcK Continue reading Indonesia, Malaysia to fight against EU palm oil ‘discrimination’

Hong Kong (AFP) June 6, 2023 Hong Kong’s government said Tuesday it had asked the city’s high court to ban the song “Glory to Hong Kong”, an anthem born out of huge pro-democracy protests in 2019. The government has sought an injunction order, which, if granted, would make “Glory to Hong Kong” the first song to be banned in the city since the former British … Continue reading Hong Kong seeks court ban on democracy protest song