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☆ An Earth Day Elegy for an Altered Planet - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Christopher Valentine | Lydia Millet | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Geologists have aterm for boulders heldaloft by other boulders. Some are drawn to these formations and make pilgrimages to see them. is the abbreviation, like Pabst Blue Ribbon. Precariouslybalanced rocks.
☆ Turkey's quakes revive concern for northwestern industrial hub
  + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Birsen Altayli | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
[1/3] The full moon, also known as the Supermoon or Flower Moon, rises above the Camlica Mosque during the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Istanbul, Turkey, May 7, 2020. Istanbul, Turkey's biggest city with a population of 16 million and the country's commercial engine, lies near fault lines that criss-cross the country. The southeast region has a sizeable manufacturing sector, albeit smaller than Turkey's northwest. "This is (Turkey's) industrial centre. The Marmara region is home to 25 million people and accounts for just over 40 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) as of 2021, according to figures from Turkey's Statistics Institute.
☆ Drilling Deeper Into Ocean Floor in Search for Origins of Life
  + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Dominique Mosbergen | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A ship that has spent decades trying to drill nearer to the earth’s mantle is preparing for a new voyage to uncover clues to how life began. Two dozen geologists, microbiologists and other scientists will sail in April from Portugal aboard the Joides Resolution, a former oil drillship turned research vessel, to the Atlantis Massif, a 14,000-foot underwater mountain rising from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.
☆ Turkey detains building contractors as quake death toll passes 33,000
  + stars: | 2023-02-12 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +8 min
A man reacts next to rescuers in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Hatay, Turkey February 11, 2023. The quakes were powerful, but victims, experts and people across Turkey are blaming bad construction for multiplying the devastation. Rescuers search for survivors, following the deadly earthquake in Hatay, Turkey, February 10, 2023. I did everything according to the rules," the DHA news agency reported. In leaked testimony published by Anadolu, the man said the building followed regulations and he did not know the building didn't withstand the quakes.
☆ Cracks begin to show in India's Himalayan building spree
  + stars: | 2023-02-02 | by ( Krishn Kaushik | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +12 min
"Modern connectivity is also a guarantee of national security," Modi said at an election rally at a border village in October, where he said the new transport links would bring development to remote regions. India's ministries of highways and railway, which own the state-run companies building the road and rail projects, also did not respond. Hundreds of homes have sunk and cracked in an Indian tourist town close to the Himalayan border with China. Eight of the families neighbouring Butola have now left the village, their homes riven with cracks, villagers told Reuters. Officials halted road construction work near the town, fearful of a bigger collapse.
☆ Fact Check-Video shows Devils Tower rock formation, not a stump from an ancient tree
  + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
The Devils Tower rock formation in Wyoming is made of a rare type of rock eroded over millions of years, not the remains of an ancient tree stump, as social media users are suggesting anew. A Twitter user posted the video with the remark, “This is a stump of what's left from the ancient tree” (here). The rock formation is a U.S. National Monument, whose exact geological origins remain partly unclear. In 2020, Reuters Fact Check debunked a similar false claim that Devils Tower was an ancient tree whose underground roots had just been discovered (here). It is footage of Devils Tower, a natural rock formation in Wyoming.
☆ Tackling the threat of mudslides in soaked California
  + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +7 min
Matt Udkow / Santa Barbara County Fire Department via AP fileWhy is California prone to mudslides? Since New Year’s Eve, the California Department of Conservation’s landslide mapping team has documented more than 300 landslides. Lancaster said California has dramatically increased its efforts to identify hotspots since the Montecito mudslides. After the 2018 mudslides hit Montecito, the Los Angeles Times reported that debris basins above the community were undersized and hadn’t been sufficiently emptied. The organization hired an engineering company to map the canyons and installed debris nets.
☆ Mauna Loa alert level lowered as scientists say 'eruption may end soon'
  + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +1 min
Officials downgraded the alert level for Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano from a warning to a watch on Saturday as they predict that the eruption of the world's largest active volcano could soon end. "High eruption rates will not resume based on past eruptive behavior and current behavior suggests that the eruption may end soon," the U.S. Geological Survey said in a bulletin issued Saturday. The new alert level reflects "the limited hazards associated with the current activity," the latest update states. Its eruption began Nov. 27, marking its first eruption since 1984 and prompting warnings from officials that residents stay alert. Before the most recent eruption, geologists had recorded 33 eruptions since 1843, making Mauna Loa among the world’s most active volcanoes.
☆ White-collar layoffs soar at brand-name companies amid economic slowdown
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | Rob Wile | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +8 min
The tech industry accounts for about one-quarter of this year's job cuts, Challenger data show. The automotive industry has had 30,669 job cuts announced, compared with 10,277 through November 2021. And real estate has had 7,919 cuts announced this year, compared with 2,762 in 2021 year-to-date. "We've seen a lot of job cuts around mortgage origination and fintech firms in mortgages. U.S.-based employers announced 76,835 cuts in November alone, more than double the 33,843 cuts announced in October and four-times the number of cuts announced last November, Challenger data show.
☆ G7 price cap on Russian oil kicks in, Russia will only sell at market price
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Jan Strupczewski | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
The price cap, to be enforced by the G7, the European Union and Australia, comes on top of the EU's embargo on imports of Russian crude by sea and similar pledges by the United States, Canada, Japan and Britain. It allows Russian oil to be shipped to third-party countries using G7 and EU tankers, insurance companies and credit institutions, only if the cargo is bought at or below the price cap. Because the world's key shipping and insurance firms are based in G7 countries, the cap could make it difficult for Moscow to sell its oil for a higher price. Russia, the world's second-largest oil exporter, said on Sunday it would not accept the cap and would not sell oil that is subject to it, even if it has to cut production. In essence, such a decree would ban the export of oil and petroleum products to countries and companies that apply it.
☆ In Hawaii, locals fear impacts of Mauna Loa eruption as lava oozes closer to main highway
  + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +4 min
People watch lava from the Mauna Loa volcano on Dec. 1, 2022, near Hilo, Hawaii. If lava does cross the highway, the Hawaii National Guard can help plan for alternatives and try to set up bypass routes, the governor said. Cars wait in traffic along Saddle Road, with occupants waiting to view the Mauna Loa volcano on Thursday. Mauna Loa, which means “Long Mountain,” covers half the island, according to the USGS. It is one of six volcanoes in Hawaii, according to the agency.
☆ Factbox: Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano erupts
  + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/2] Mauna Loa’s summit region glows during an eruption as viewed by a geologist of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory in Hawaii, U.S. November 28, 2022. USGS/Ken Hon/Handout via REUTERSNov 29 (Reuters) - Hawaii's Mauna Loa began erupting on Nov. 27 for the first time in nearly four decades. * Mauna Loa is the largest active volcano on the planet, rising some 13,679 feet (4,169 meters) above the Pacific Ocean and dominating the Island of Hawai'i, also known as the Big Island. Geologists estimate that Mauna Loa first erupted on the sea floor between 600,000 and 1 million years ago, and emerged above sea level about 300,000 years ago. * Mauna Loa has previously erupted 33 times since modern record-keeping began in 1843, according to the USGS.
☆ EXCLUSIVE Russia's finance ministry cuts 2023 taxable oil expectations
  + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
Of this, refining volumes were revised down by 56 million tonnes, or almost 20%, to 230.1 million tonnes from 286.1 million tonnes seen in previous forecast. Oil exports, eligible for exports duty, are expected at 178.2 million tonnes, down 19.4% from the earlier made projections. "The estimate for 2022 was reduced to 515 million tonnes, in 2023 to 490 million tonnes. In 2024-2025, the level of oil production will average about 500 million tonnes," it said. So far, Russian oil production, the third-largest after the United States and Saudi Arabia, has been resilient to sanctions, buoyed by rising sales to China and India. .
☆ Chesapeake Energy trims workforce ahead of oil properties sale
  + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Companies Chesapeake Energy Corp FollowOct 24 (Reuters) - U.S. shale gas producer Chesapeake Energy Corp (CHK.O) last week cut about 3% of its workforce, according people familiar with the matter, as it readies a sale of South Texas oil properties. The company this year said it would exit oil-producing properties in the Eagle Ford shale region of Texas to focus on its mainstay natural gas operations. A Chesapeake Energy spokesperson declined to comment. Oil prices fell the following year, a drop that helped send Chesapeake into restructuring. It emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year as natural gas prices began to rise.
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