Earth, Disasters and the Environment

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1. Over 17,000 hectares destroyed in Colombia forest fires

   By Still Waters, January 27   

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   • Piney
   • January 27

2. Underwater Santorini volcano eruption 520,000 years ago was 15 times bigger than Tonga

   By Still Waters, January 27   

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   • Still Waters
   • January 27

3. Mystery surrounds Bible verses in plastic bottles dumped in river

   By Still Waters, January 26   

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   • Still Waters
   • January 26

4. Antarctica’s Last Chance: Urgent Climate Measures Needed To Avert Ice Sheet Disaster,

   By Grim Reaper 6, January 1
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   • Poncho_Peanatus
   • January 26

5. Virga: When rain vanishes before it hits the ground

   By Still Waters, January 9   

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   • parafish
   • January 26

6. Oceans break heat records five years in a row

   By Mapusoul, January 12   

   • climate impact
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   • parafish
   • January 26

7. Nuclear weapons: Why reducing the risk of nuclear war should be a key concern of our generation

   Risk assessment of nuclear weapons

   By Ajay0, January 19
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   • Cho Jinn
   • January 25

8. Old shipwreck may have been discovered in Lake Erie

   By susieice, January 21
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   • Doug1066
   • January 23

9. Could making rivers bendy again help prevent flooding?

   By Still Waters, January 13   

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   • Doc Socks Junior
   • January 23

10. Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists

    By Still Waters, January 14
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    • L.A.T.1961
    • January 20

11. Last Ice Age took just SIX months to arrive

    :(

    By docyabut2, January 16
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    • Piney
    • January 20

12. Rocking our world: Understanding human-induced earthquakes

    By Still Waters, January 15   

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    • Still Waters
    • January 15

13. Japan's coastline moved over 800 feet after the devastating Jan 1. earthquake

    By Still Waters, January 15
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    • Still Waters
    • January 15

14. 'Superstructure' bigger than Idaho has been growing on the seafloor by Fiji since the dinosaur age

    By Still Waters, January 14   

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    • Still Waters
    • January 14

15. 7.5 earthquake in Japan. Major tsunami warning. [merged]

    Earthquake in Japan

    By and-then, January 1   

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    • Waspie_Dwarf
    • January 11

16. Deep-sea mining: Norway approves controversial practice

    By Still Waters, January 9   

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    • Sir Wearer of Hats
    • January 10

17. Bottled water can contain hundreds of thousands of previously uncounted tiny plastic bits, study

    By Still Waters, January 8   

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    • Still Waters
    • January 8

18. Earthquakes reported in South Carolina and Georgia

    By Grim Reaper 6, December 29, 2023
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    • Doc Socks Junior
    • January 8

19. WWII-era munitions found under water in survey of Southern California industrial waste dump site

    By Still Waters, January 6   

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    • Doug1066
    • January 8

20. Wind farm legal action launched over wildcat fears

    By Still Waters, January 8   

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    • Still Waters
    • January 8

21. Lost asteroid 2007 FT3 unlikely to hit Earth in 2024, NASA says

    ;(

    By docyabut2, January 8
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    • Still Waters
    • January 8

22. Will we be able to ski in a +2°C world?

    By Still Waters, January 7   

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    • joc
    • January 8

23. Northern lights photographer of the year winners 2023

    By Still Waters, January 5   

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    • Buzz_Light_Year
    • January 6

24. If nuclear war breaks out between the U.S. and Russia, avoid these places

    By Grim Reaper 6, January 1
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    • Waspie_Dwarf
    • January 4

25. Earthquake felt in D.C. suburbs, startling residents

    :(

    By docyabut2, January 2
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    • Trelane
    • January 2