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The Really Big One
05/20/2016 20:46
When the 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck Tohoku, Japan, Chris Goldfinger was two hundred miles away, in the city of Kashiwa, at an international meeting on seismology. As the shaking started, everyone in the room began to laugh. Earthquakes are common in Japan—that one was the third of the...
Germany to Construct Church-Synagogue-Mosque Combination – The House of One
05/20/2016 19:52
The march to one world religion is stepping at a much faster beat today, as “The House of One” being built in Berlin, Germany plans to accommodate the three major monotheistic religions of Judaism, Islam and Christianity under one roof.
Berlin is soon to become home to something truly unique....
Chunks of Earth's Mantle Are 'Peeling Off'
05/16/2016 19:38
An odd phenomenon may explain why the Southeastern United States has experienced recent earthquakes, even though the region sits snugly in the middle of a tectonic plate and not at the edges, where all the ground-shaking action usually happens.
This seismicity — or relatively frequent earthquakes...
All of a Sudden, Fish Are Dying By The Millions All Over the Planet
05/16/2016 19:31
Why are millions upon millions of dead sea creatures suddenly washing up on beaches all over the world? It is certainly not unusual for fish and other inhabitants of our oceans to die. This happens all the time. But over the past month we have seen a series of extremely alarming mass death...
Why Are Chilean Beaches Covered With Dead Animals?
05/16/2016 19:25
Compared to other countries, Chile is almost all coast, and that geographical fluke means that the country is known for its beautiful beaches. But that reputation may be on the wane thanks to a new sight on Chilean shores: dead animals. Lots of them. Heaps of them, in fact. As Giovanna Fleitas...
Millions of dead fish wash up on Vietnam's coast
05/16/2016 19:18
Bangkok: Millions of fish have washed up dead along a 125-kilometre stretch of the Vietnamese coast in one of the communist country's worst environmental disasters.
Soldiers have been deployed to bury tonnes of fish, clams and the occasional whale that began dying in early April along the...
San Andreas fault is about to crack: here's what will happen
05/11/2016 21:33
The director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, Thomas Jordan, made an announcement recently that would have sent a chill down the spine of every Californian: that the San Andreas fault appears to be in a critical state and as such, could generate a large earthquake imminently.
Of...
Earth May Spin Faster as Glaciers Melt
05/10/2016 09:46
Melting ice triggered by global warming may make Earth whirl faster than before and could shift the axis on which the planet spins, researchers say.
This could also affect sunset times, as the length of Earth's day depends on the speed at which the planet rotates on its axis. Prior research found...
Will the United Methodists Unravel Over LGBT Inclusion?
05/10/2016 09:31
The United Methodist Church General Conference convenes once every four years to make policy decisions and set the direction for the denomination.
Beginning Tuesday (May 10), 864 delegates, half of them clergy, will converge on the Oregon Convention Center in Portland for 10 days...
Is Snake River Plain’s volcano a bigger threat to America than Yellowstone?
05/04/2016 09:31
For those that thought Yellowstone super-volcano was one of the biggest natural threats to the USA, think again. Eruptions at Snake River Plain in Idaho were “significantly larger” than geologists had previously thought. Scientists from the University of Leicester discovered there were a...
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