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Earthquake strikes under Indian Ocean far off Australian coast, but no tsunami warning issued

EARTHQUAKES
A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck far off southwest Australia on Wednesday, but no tsunami warning was issued. The epicenter was in the Indian Ocean 2,069 kilometers (1,283 miles) southwest of Albany on the southwest tip of Western Australia state at...

Ancient rocks reveal how water helped shape the world

ASTRONOMY
New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first continents, transforming the planet's early crust and helping to build the landmasses we see today. In an article published in Communications...

Why Antarctic ice shelves are losing their mass and how it leads to global sea level rise

OCEANOGRAPHY
The Greenland ice sheet (GIS) and Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) contribute largely to global mean sea level (GMSL) changes, though the seas surrounding the...

Sea level rise may threaten Indonesia’s status as an archipelagic country

ENVIRONMENT
The recent UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report found global sea levels have been rising at an accelerated rate. As an archipelagic...

Sea level rise to dramatically speed up erosion of rock coastlines by 2100

OCEANOGRAPHY
Rock coasts, which make up over half the world's coastlines, could retreat more rapidly in the future due to accelerating sea level rise. This is...

Indonesia raises alert level for Krakatoa’s offspring volcano

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

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