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AP PHOTOS: A slow motion burial awaits in volcano no-go zone

Seattle PI 04 Nov 2021

CUMBRE VIEJA EXCLUSION ZONE, Canary Islands (AP) — A child’s swing. A fountain in a courtyard. A tray of glasses abandoned under the duress of escape ... Inside the exclusion zone, there is destruction by lava as well as burial in a sepulcher of black snow ... Human time and geological time were brought into sync by the volcano ... Silence would... .

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Climate change and the limits of economic growth

Resilience 04 Nov 2021

They looked at this question from various angles—physics, geology, biology, economy, ecology—and discussed the major obstacles to greater acceptance of more critical approaches to economic growth as well as ways of overcoming these obstacles ... less work time, more leisure time, a reduction of income inequality and environmental impacts.”.

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A mission to explore the methane lakes on Titan

Phys Dot Org 03 Nov 2021

Neither mission will be the first time Titan's surface has been visited, though ... No matter what configuration of probes it ends up with, POSEIDON will have three particular mission goals for its time on the shrouded moon—understand its atmosphere, its geology, and its habitability.

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Examining the 1,800-plus 'young' volcanoes in the US Southwest

Phys Dot Org 03 Nov 2021

Southwest over the past 2.58 million years, a geologic period known as the Quaternary. During this time, more than 1,800 monogenetic volcanoes erupted in the region, according to a count covering Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and parts of California's eastern edge.

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Boyd Barrett says sale of 37 acres of publicly-owned forest ‘stinks’

The Irish Times 03 Nov 2021

Coillte has advertised for sale 37 acres of publicly-owned forest of archaeological and geological significance for €250,000 at a time when the Government has pledged to increase forestry coverage to meet climate targets, the Dáil has heard ... It is of great geological significance and Coillte is flogging it off.” ... It certainly should have to.” ... .

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Falcon receives high grade gold results from sampling – Backpack drill program, Spitfire-Sunny Boy – ...

Resource World 03 Nov 2021

This news release may contain forward looking statements including but not limited to comments regarding the timing and content of upcoming work programs, geological interpretations, receipt of property titles, etc ... geological interpretations, receipt of property titles, etc.

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Earthquake: 4.4 quake reported near Fortuna

The Los Angeles Times 03 Nov 2021

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake was reported Tuesday at 5.24 p.m. Pacific time 13 miles from Fortuna, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey ... Advertisement ... A Times editor reviewed the post before it was published ... California. Quakebot. Follow Us .

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4.4-magnitude quake near Petrolia latest to rattle Northern California, USGS reports

Merced Sun Star 03 Nov 2021

A 4.4-magnitude earthquake shook the Northern California coast near Petrolia on Tuesday night, the U.S. Geological Survey reports. The 18-mile deep quake hit at 5.24 p.m. Pacific time, according to ... .

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Meet the Newest Next Penn Station

New York Magazine 03 Nov 2021

Illustration. Courtesy of ESDC. If announcements were made of concrete, Penn Station would be done by now, and it would be a thing of beauty ... What she adds is focused speed—or the desire for it, anyway—in the face of infrastructure’s geological time scale ... The less good news is that Amtrak has set a completion date of 2035 ... Well, soon. Okay, soon-ish.

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A Comet May Have Exploded Over Chile 12,000 Years Ago—and it Could Happen Again

Time Magazine 03 Nov 2021

2 in Geology, and if the researchers are right, there could be more such glassy scarring from more such comet hits elsewhere on Earth. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] ... “In other words,” said Schultz in an email to TIME, “there was a dynamic force that formed them.”.

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Future of travel will be led by sustainability, innovation

Waco Tribune-Herald 02 Nov 2021

The time is now to build cleaner, safer and more secure ways to travel and America should lead the way ... Buttigieg noted that the time is now to make changes ... You can explore 180 million years of geologic time, revealed through the spectacle of red rock structures, multi-hued sandstone layers and 67 towering sedimentary pipes.

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Uncovering the secrets behind Earth's first major mass extinction

SpaceDaily 02 Nov 2021

... the entire Earth faced extinction during a particular geological period of time.

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Genetics of rainforest tree reveal its past and possible future

Phys Dot Org 02 Nov 2021

For most people who go for a walk in a forest, their surroundings seem unchanging. But researchers from Japan have discovered that, on a geological time scale, one rainforest tree species has been getting up to all sorts of antics ... Biodiversity loss is one of the most pressing problems of our time ... S ... parvifolia ... parvifolia and how it was established.

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Humanity is compressing millions of years of natural change into just a few centuries

Phys Dot Org 02 Nov 2021

For instance one headline finding in the IPCC report was that global temperature (currently 1.1℃ above a pre-industrial baseline) is higher than at any time in at least the past 120,000 or so years ... Another finding regards the rate of current warming, which is faster than at any time in the past 2,000 years—and probably much longer.

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Nuclear Energy Industry Angles for Bigger Role in Washington and U.S.

The Centralia Chronicle 02 Nov 2021

The BPA sometimes puts a premium on flexible generation that avoids running Columbia Generating Station's full capacity at a time when regional power prices collapse ... Geological Survey studies indicated that the area is capable of producing a 7.5 magnitude, which is eight times more powerful.