Major earthquake strikes off the Philippines, tsunami warnings issued
August 31st, 2012 - 8:33 pm ICT by BNO News
GUIUAN, PHILIPPINES (BNO NEWS) -- A major earthquake struck off the Philippines on Friday evening, prompting a tsunami warning for several countries, seismologists and officials said. It was not immediately known if ... Read more...
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‘Lost civilization’ submerged beneath Persian Gulf
December 9th, 2010 - 6:03 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 9 (ANI): A study has revealed that a once fertile landmass now submerged beneath the Persian Gulf may have been home to some of the earliest human populations outside Africa. ... Read more...
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Sea level monitoring ‘best way to predict impacts of climate change’
October 10th, 2010 - 3:05 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Oct 10 (ANI): An Australian leading ocean scientist has said that more thorough sea level monitoring is needed to protect one trillion dollars (0.98 trillion U.S. dollars) worth of the ... Read more...
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New Zealand cancels tsunami alert
March 1st, 2010 - 1:38 pm ICT by ANI
Auckland, Mar. 1 (ANI): New Zealand's National Crisis Management Centre (NCMC) on Monday took a decision to cancel its tsunami alert from 9 a.m."Sea level data indicate the peak of activity has ... Read more...
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Sea level data spanning 35 million years pulled from 6,000-foot hole
January 27th, 2010 - 4:43 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, January 27 (ANI): A team of scientists has drilled more than 6,000 feet into the Earth's crust, making it the deepest hole in scientific ocean drilling history, which has retrieved a ... Read more...
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Sea level rise may be even more urgent than previously thought
December 17th, 2009 - 2:30 pm ICT by ANI
London, December 17 (ANI): A new study has suggested that as a result of global warming, sea level rise may be even more urgent than previously thought.According to a report in Nature ... Read more...
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Global warming leads to sea level rising along Atlantic coast: Study
December 11th, 2009 - 7:13 pm ICT by ANI
Philadelphia (US), Dec.11 (ANI): An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise along the Atlantic Coast of the United States was two millimeters ... Read more...
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Glacial ice sheets existed on Earth even during ancient global warming
January 11th, 2008 - 12:28 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Jan 11 (ANI): A new research has indicated that glacial ice had existed on Earth even during intense period of global warming 91 million years ago.Carried out by a team ... Read more...
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