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Russia gains new land after quake, lava flows: scientist
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Russia, the world's largest country, has grown even larger recently thanks to an earthquake and a volcanic eruption in its seismically active far eastern regions, a scientist said on Friday.
Satellite imagery shows Typhoon Vamco has a huge 45-mile wide eye
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Aug 24, 2009 |
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Typhoon Vamco is being as stubborn in its quest to live in the Pacific Ocean as Bill is in the Atlantic Ocean this week, and NASA satellite data confirmed that the large storm has a huge eye, about 45 miles ...
Obsidian 'trail' provides clues to how humans settled, interacted in Kuril Islands
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Jun 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists have used stone tools to answer many questions about human ancestors in both the distant and near past and now they are analyzing the origin of obsidian flakes to better understand ...
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450 quakes recorded on Russian peninsula
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 26, 2006 |
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An erupting volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula set off as many as 450 earthquakes in the local area on a single day.
Is a Russian peninsula really part of North America?
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May 02, 2006 |
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For many years geologists have harbored a belief that the Kamchatka Peninsula, shrouded in mystery and secrecy on Russia's east coast, actually sits on the same tectonic plate as the mainland United States, ...
Kamchatka volcano blows its top
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Jul 05, 2007 |
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Klyuchevskoy (pronounced Kloo-shef-skoy), a stratovolcano located in the north central region of the Kamchatka Peninsula, is blasting ash up to 32,000 feet in the air, and has diverted air traffic headed toward ...
New explanation for a puzzling biological divide along the Malay Peninsula
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Ecologists at the University of California, San Diego, offer a new explanation for an apparently abrupt switch in the kinds in of mammals found along the Malay Peninsula in southeast Asia - from mainland species to island ...
New study changes conditions for Spanish brown bears
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Mar 18, 2008 |
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Brown bears from the Iberian Peninsula are not as genetically different from other brown bears in Europe as was previously thought. An international study being published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
Phytoplankton is changing along the Antarctic Peninsula
Mar 12, 2009 |
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As the cold, dry climate of the western Antarctic Peninsula becomes warmer and more humid, phytoplankton - the bottom of the Antarctic food chain - is decreasing off the northern part the peninsula and increasing further ...
Double volcanic eruption in Eastern Russia
Mar 10, 2005 |
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Acquired from orbit 800 kilometres away, this Envisat image shows two volcanoes erupting simultaneously on Russia's snowy Kamchatka Peninsula this week. Located in the Russian Far East, the Kamchatka Peninsula is ...
Paired earthquakes separated in time and space
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Jan 30, 2008 |
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Earthquakes occurring at the edges of tectonic plates can trigger events at a distance and much later in time, according to a team of researchers reporting in today's issue of Nature. These doublet earthquakes may hold a ...
Less of a stink in diabetes patients?
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is commonly associated with smell of rotten eggs, stink bombs and blocked drains but lower blood levels of the gas are possibly linked to cardiovascular complications in some male patients with type ...
'Rotten eggs' in the blood
Apr 29, 2008 |
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Hydrogen sulphide (H2S) is a gas most commonly associated with the smell of stink bombs, sewage and rotten eggs, but a team of researchers from the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England and King’s College Lo ...
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