Author: contact.geology

Indonesia raises alert level for Krakatoa’s offspring volcano

Indonesia raised the alert status for the offspring of the infamous Krakatoa volcano to its second highest level on Monday, a day after it...

Maryland’s Back River is unsafe for any human contact

The Back River in Baltimore County is unsafe for drinking, swimming or any human contact, Maryland environmental officials declared Friday amid ongoing concerns about...

First multi-centennial streamflow variability of the Karnali River

The Karnali River is one of the major transboundary rivers of the Nepalese central Himalaya and a major tributary of the Ganges River. Though...

Scientists scour ‘Mexico’s Galapagos’ for quake, volcano clues

Could a volcanic eruption off Mexico's coast unleash a tsunami like the one that devastated Tonga? What really causes tectonic plates to shift and...

Two largest marsquakes to date recorded from planet’s far side

The seismometer placed on Mars by NASA's InSight lander has recorded its two largest seismic events to date: a magnitude 4.2 and a magnitude...

Water on Jupiter’s moon closer to surface than thought

Ridges that criss-cross the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa indicate there are shallow pockets of water beneath, boosting hopes in the search for...

Space Blocs: The future of international cooperation in space is splitting along lines of power on Earth

Even during times of conflict on the ground, space has historically been an arena of collaboration among nations. But trends in the past decade...

Meteorites from the red desert of Australia support search for life on Mars

Monash University, University of Queensland and Australian National University researchers have used ANSTO's Australian Synchrotron in their study of meteorites found on Earth that...

Logging ‘amplified’ severity of Black Summer bushfires

An analysis of the fire footprint of the 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires has found logging elevated the risk of high-severity fires. A team of Australian...

Europe saw warmest summer on record in 2021

Scientists say last summer was the hottest summer on record in Europe, with temperatures a full 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than...

Algae a winner in Elon Musk-funded greenhouse gas contest

From algae farming to producing a sort of artificial limestone, ideas for reducing greenhouse gas in the atmosphere are getting a funding boost from...

China axes 15 coal plants abroad after Xi pledge, but loopholes remain: study

More than a dozen Chinese coal power projects overseas were cancelled after a ban last year on funding such plants, but loopholes could allow...

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