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Creep in 4 San Francisco Bay Area Faults May Mean Big Quake Is Poised to Strike: Study
Creep in 4 San Francisco Bay Area Faults May Mean Big Quake Is Poised to Strike: Study
Dec 22, 2024
Four faults directly underneath California's densely populated San Francisco Bay Area show signs of being highly stressed and could rupture in a major earthquake at any time, according to a study published earlier this week. Led by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, the study says four faults -- the Calaveras, Green Valley, Hayward and Rodgers Creek Faults -- have built up enough seismic strain to unleash a quake...
Study: Earth Undergoing Unprecedented Sea Level Rise in the Last Century
Study: Earth Undergoing Unprecedented Sea Level Rise in the Last Century
Dec 22, 2024
Muir Glacier and Inlet (1895) In the photo above, the west shoreline of Muir Inlet in Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve is shown as it appeared in 1895. Notice the lack of vegetation on the slopes of the mountains, and the glacier that stands more than 300 feet high. See the glacier as it looked in 2005 on the next page. (USGS/Bruce Molnia) For the better part of the last 6,000 years sea levels across the Earth rose...
Orange Sludge Oozes Into Arizona Waterways From Abandoned Mines
Orange Sludge Oozes Into Arizona Waterways From Abandoned Mines
Dec 22, 2024
Orange sludge leaking from the Trench Camp Mine near Patagonia, Ariz. ((AP Photo/Arizona Republic, Gooch Goodwin)) When record breaking rain from former Hurricane Norbert and Hurricane Odile moved into the Southwest last month, residents of Patagonia, Arizona, might have expected local waterways to flood, but they definitely didn't expect them to turn orange. But that's exactly what happened just outside the sleepy Santa Cruz County town after two local abandoned mines flooded and sent a surge of toxic substances into...
Anthropocene Epoch: Has Mankind Ushered In A New Time Period?
Anthropocene Epoch: Has Mankind Ushered In A New Time Period?
Dec 22, 2024
For the last 11,000-years-plus the world has been in the same geological time period, but if a growing contingent of scientists and other experts has their way, mankind could usher in an entirely new epoch soon, the foundation of which is based entirely off of mankind's impact on the planet. The newly proposed epoch, known as the Anthropocene, was unofficially used by scientists starting around 2000 to describe, as the New York Times' Andrew Revkin calls it, "a geological age...
Beijing Marathon Runners Wear Gas Masks to Battle Hazardous Smog (PHOTOS)
Beijing Marathon Runners Wear Gas Masks to Battle Hazardous Smog (PHOTOS)
Dec 22, 2024
In an unsettling testament to the severity of Beijing’s pollution problem, thousands of runners hit the streets for the city’s annual marathon on Sunday decked out in gas masks. Organizers of the 34th Beijing International Marathon warned runners in advance to expect a slight to moderate smog risk, but upgraded the warning to ‘hazardous’ early Sunday, according to the BBC. Channel News Asia reports that air pollution on race day was 16 times the recommended level. (MORE: China's Smog Worsens)...
California's Drought Taking a Toll on Hydropower
California's Drought Taking a Toll on Hydropower
Dec 22, 2024
The Green Bridge passes over full water levels at a section of Lake Oroville near the Bidwell Marina on July 20, 2011, in Oroville, California. (Paul Hames/California Department of Water Resources/Getty Images) Impacts from California's worsening drought continue to add up, and this time, a renewable energy source is taking a hit. A report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) details how California's hydropower generation has been decimated by the drought, dropping to unprecedented levels. The numbers are telling:...
Russian Scientist Andrew Kazantsev Looks to Harness Clouds to Create Clean Water, Energy
Russian Scientist Andrew Kazantsev Looks to Harness Clouds to Create Clean Water, Energy
Dec 22, 2024
A prototype of the Air HES cloud moisture collection device. (AIR HES) If you told Andrew Kazantsev that he really had his head in the clouds, he’d likely take it as a compliment. The Russian scientist has big plans to save the world by using just that–cloud power. Kazantsev and his St. Petersburg-based team havecreated an early prototype of a device that is able to extract water from clouds high above in theatmosphere. Dubbed the Air Hydro Electric Station, or...
Sao Paulo Drought Worsens, More Water Shortages Expected
Sao Paulo Drought Worsens, More Water Shortages Expected
Dec 22, 2024
Just two months after São Paulo's state-run water utility Sabesp refused to implement water rationing amidst the area's worst drought in eight decades, at least one government official is warning of "dramatic water shortages" and "collapse" for the residents of South America's most populous metro area. “If the drought continues, residents will face more dramatic water shortages in the short term,” said Vicente Andreu, president of Brazil’s National Water Agency. “If it doesn’t rain, we run the risk that the...
What's the Greatest Danger in the World? Americans, Rest of World Disagree
What's the Greatest Danger in the World? Americans, Rest of World Disagree
Dec 22, 2024
(ThinkStock) This spring, the Pew Research Center talked with people in 44 countries around the world to find out what they see as the world's biggest danger. After surveying more than 48,000 people, the group found that people gave very different answers depending on where they live. Pew's research, published on Oct. 16, showed that what Americans see as the biggest threat to the world -- the gap between rich and poor, according to a plurality (27 percent) of U.S....
U.S. Greenhouse Emissions on the Rise Despite Obama Administration's Plans
U.S. Greenhouse Emissions on the Rise Despite Obama Administration's Plans
Dec 22, 2024
U.S. power plants released more greenhouse gases in 2013 than 2012 despite recent efforts by the Obama administration to drastically cut such pollution by 2030, a new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows, and the brutal winter of 2013 shoulders a large part of the blame. The EIA reports that from 2012 to 2013 carbon dioxide emissions from energy-related sources rose by 2.5 percent, the fourth largest increase in such emissions since 1990. This marks the first...
Here's Why South Florida Wants to Split From North Florida to Form Two Separate States
Here's Why South Florida Wants to Split From North Florida to Form Two Separate States
Dec 22, 2024
Asking a Floridian (full disclosure: I am one) to describe the differences between South Florida and North Florida is a bit like asking a layman to explain gravity: You know it exists, but you couldn't adequately explain it if tasked to. Generally speaking, the two areas are just geographically, culturally and politically different. But politicians in South Miami, Florida, took that common knowledge a step further earlier this month, when they passed a resolution calling for counties in southern Florida...
United Nations Climate Deal: European Union Sends Message to Rest of World
United Nations Climate Deal: European Union Sends Message to Rest of World
Dec 22, 2024
(Getty Images) The first big piece of the upcoming United Nations climate deal has fallen into place. The European Union on Friday became the first major party to the negotiations to declare how far it will go in reducing its climate impacts under a global post-2020 treaty, which is scheduled to be finalized next winter in Paris. The European Commission’s vote to reduce greenhouse gas pollution levels by 40 percent by 2030, compared with 1990 levels, “will put pressure on...
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