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Earthquakes can aggravate sea water level rise

According to a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, earthquakes can cause sea level rise even faster than climate change.  Researchers believe that certain regions...

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Huge meteor crater discovered in Greenland

Geologists have discovered a massive crater beneath the ice sheet of Greenland. The crater was formed after a one-mile wide iron meteorite struck a northwest region of Greenland at a speed of 19 km...

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Lebanon's mountains are being wiped out

More than 3,000 quarries have ripped apart the mountains and destroyed the natural habitat of Lebanon. The landscape of the country has rather changed due to human intervention. The natural environ...

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Organic matter found on Mars by Nasa's rover

Nasa's Curiosity rover found organic matter buried and preserved in ancient sediments that formed a vast lake bed on Mars more than 3billion years ago.  What does this new discovery show about...

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''Snowball Earth'' triggered by the advent of plate tectonics?

During the Neoproterozoic, a geological era which occurred about 542 million to one billion years ago, Earth experienced unusual episodes of global cooling that geologists refer to as ''Snowball Earth...

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Huge crack spreading on Washington’s Rattlesnake Ridge prompts evacuations (video)

Authorities in Yakima County, Washington are closely monitoring Rattlesnake Ridge, after a large tension crack formed recently on the hillside and a landslide is imminent. The crack on Rattlesnake...

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Clay Mineral Image Collection for Education in Geotechnical Engineering and the Earth Sciences Made Freely Available

Exciting microscope images of clays (Kaolinite and Bentonite pure clay minerals, and the fine portion of a natural soil). The collection was released on December 2015 by Associate Professor Jo...

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Beijing Sinking at a Significant Rate

A recent study has found that Beijing, the capital of China is sinking as much as 11 cm per year. As one of the largest cities in the world with a population over 20 million, this could prove to be a...

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Fulgurite: A rare phenomenon

A bolt of lightning is able to deliver up to 5 gigajoule of energy (energy that can power a house in the US for over a month). A bolt of lightning is able to deliver up to 5 gigajoule of energy (en...

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Mud Volcano Resembles To A Giant Human Eye

Guests at the island of Sakhalin in Eastern Russia have a chance to see a unique natural phenomenon. This phenomenon is known as the Pugachevsky mud volcano that looks like a huge human eye. Guests...

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