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Environment

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How endangered massasauga rattlesnakes are helped by private Pa. landowners, Amish tree cutters and brush hogs
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How endangered massasauga rattlesnakes are helped by private Pa. landowners, Amish tree cutters and brush hogs

  • August 9, 2025
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A Hidden Ocean May Be Growing Beneath Ethiopia There’s a quiet corner of Ethiopia where the land feels ancient and still — but it isn’t. Not really. Beneath the cracked, sun-warmed earth of the Afar region, something is shifting. Not in a way you can see, or even feel — but deep down, the planet is moving. And if you look closely enough, it seems to be preparing for something big. Not tomorrow. Not next year. But slowly, over lifetimes and beyond, the ground here may open wide. And one day, where now there is only dust and heat, there may be water — waves, tides, a whole new ocean. What makes this place so unusual is that three great pieces of the Earth’s crust — the Placa Nubia, the Placa Somalí, and the Placa Arábiga — all meet right here, and they’re quietly drifting apart. This kind of triple junction, known as the Tripla unión de Afar, is rare. It’s also exactly where the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Ethiopian Rift begin to pull the continent in different directions. In the space between those shifts, the Earth is opening — gently, almost invisibly — through a process called rifting. And just beneath the surface, something is rising. Heat. Pressure. A steady pulse coming from the mantle terrestre. That deep breath from the planet is softening the crust, making way for change. A Pulse Beneath the Rock Geologist Emma Watts, working with the University of Southampton and Swansea University, has been part of a team studying this movement. Their research focused on 130 volcanic rock samples taken from the three rift zones that stretch across Afar. What they found feels almost alive: the mantle beneath the surface isn’t just heating up — it’s moving with a rhythm. Not violent, not chaotic. Just steady, like a heartbeat. With each slow push, molten material rises, thinning the crust, encouraging small cracks — fallas tectónicas — to widen. And there’s more. The chemical composition of that rising heat shifts depending on where it moves. Toward the Mar Rojo, it’s one thing. Toward the Golfo de Adén, another. The land isn’t just breaking; it’s telling a story, branch by branch, fault by fault. This is how oceans begin. The Continent That Remembers How to Move We forget that Africa, like all continents, is in motion. That the ground we walk on isn’t permanent. That it drifts. Changes. Re-forms. This is what’s known as deriva continental, and in the Afar region, it’s unfolding in real time. The Placa Nubia and Placa Somalí continue to drift apart. The Placa Arábiga pulls away too. As the Earth stretches, it thins. And if that stretching continues, seawater could one day flow into the valley that’s forming — turning this dry place into the floor of a nuevo océano. It’s not fast. It’s not loud. But it’s happening. A Story We’ll Never See the End Of There’s something humbling about this. About knowing that the Earth is shifting under us in ways we’ll never quite feel — but that future generations might one day sail across. Thanks to this research, we get a rare glimpse of what the planet looks like before an ocean is born. It doesn’t start with a splash. It starts with a silence. A widening. A pulse from deep below. So if one day a new sea does rise in Ethiopia, the story of its beginning will start here — in the stillness of the Afar region, where the Earth has quietly been preparing, all along.
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No earthquakes, no eruptions – what’s happening under the Horn of Africa could open up a whole new ocean

  • August 9, 2025
There’s a quiet place in Africa where the land feels too old to move, but it isn’t. In…
EEnvironment
THE ECONEWS REPORT: When Will the Eel River Dams Fall? | Lost Coast Outpost
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THE ECONEWS REPORT: When Will the Eel River Dams Fall? | Lost Coast Outpost

  • August 9, 2025
Scott Dam at Lake Pillsbury. Photo: PG&E. PG&E recently tendered its License…
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China coal mine
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China sets off alarm bells around the world — 94.5 GW under construction

  • August 9, 2025
Coal has powered China’s growth for decades. As the country industrialized at a breakneck pace, coal plants became…
EEnvironment
It's official - Japan connects its first 1.1 MW tidal power turbine to the grid, marking a milestone in renewables
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It’s official – Japan connects its first 1.1 MW tidal power turbine to the grid, marking a milestone in renewables

  • August 9, 2025
Tides are now powering homes in Japan, and it’s not a pilot. It’s real. A UK company, Proteus…
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Minnesota's Don Shelby finds the divine in trees — and immutable laws of nature
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Minnesota’s Don Shelby finds the divine in trees — and immutable laws of nature

  • August 9, 2025
The truth is, it does count. The smallest thing you do that contributes to the longevity of life…
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New tiger could boost endangered species breeding
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New tiger could boost endangered species breeding

  • August 9, 2025
Keepers at a zoo in Devon hope a newly arrived tiger could father multiple litters to help conserve…
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Stratford’s iconic Avon River has dried up, stunning locals and tourists
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Stratford’s iconic Avon River has dried up, stunning locals and tourists

  • August 9, 2025
Open this photo in gallery: The water in Lake Victoria in Stratford, Ont., started receding after a brutal…
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‘The ocean is spitting our rubbish back’: Italy’s museum of plastic pollution | Plastics
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‘The ocean is spitting our rubbish back’: Italy’s museum of plastic pollution | Plastics

  • August 9, 2025
Enzo Suma, a naturalist guide, has always picked up rubbish during his walks along Carovigno beach, a stretch…
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Gentoo penguins on Cuverville Island in the western Antarctic. Like seals and whales, they eat krill, an inch-long shrimp-like crustacean that forms the basis of the Southern Ocean food chain. But penguin-watchers say the krill are getting scarcer in the western Antarctic peninsula, under threat from climate change and fishing. Credit: Eitan Abramovich/AFP via Getty Images
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Record Krill Catch Prompts Early End to Fishing Season in Antarctica and Growing Calls to Protect its Fragile Ecosystems

  • August 9, 2025
Antarctica’s krill fishery has shut down months ahead of schedule after reaching its full seasonal catch-limit—a historic first.…
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