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A team of scientists, led by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, has discovered an active underwater volcano near the Samoan Island chain. During a research cruise to study the Samoan hot spot, scientists uncovered a submarine volcano g...

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The Coast Guard became part of the Air Force-led Joint Task Force Support Forces Antarctica Jan. 1 with the arrival of the Cutter Polar Sea at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Home ported in Seattle, the Polar Sea arrived after a month-long voyage including stops in Honolulu and Sydney, Australia. ...

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Chinese archaeologists said they have found fossilised remains of a primitive human species that lived about 2.04 million years ago in the Three Gorges Area in southwest China, the earliest ever found in the country. The findings, including a lower jawbone fragment, an incisor and more than 230 pi...

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Published the week of Nov. 12 in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study documents the use of digging tools among chimpanzees inhabiting the Ugalla region of western Tanzania. An arid woodland savannah, Ugalla is thought to be an environment simi...

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Fossil hunters exploring the eastern edge of the Rift Valley of Kenya have found the jawbone of a 10-million-year-old ape that appears to be a close relative of the last ancestor of humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas. The discovery of this ancient ape strikes a new blow against a theory that apes in Af...

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A 4,000-year-old temple filled with murals has been unearthed on the northern coast of Peru, making it one of the oldest finds in the Americas, a leading archaeologist said on Saturday. The temple, inside a larger ruin, includes a staircase that leads up to an altar used for fire worship at a site scie...

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Officials in South Korea have chosen a 30-year-old engineer to be the country's first citizen in space. Ko San, who works at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, will fly with two Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station in 2008. He will spend seven or eight days there, conducting a...

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The "Akademik Fyodorov" research vessel left the Saint Petersburg port in the small hours of November 6 and is now on its way to the Antarctic. Russia's 53rd Antarctic Expedition is made up of 102 expedition members and 70 sailors. The ship is to visit the port of Bremerhaven in German...

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Builders are now constructing the Dandenong Southern Bypass through an ancient Aboriginal site. The site in Dandenong South (Victoria, Australia) has had sand tested at 35,000 years old with artefacts estimated to be about 17,000 years old. A spokesman for Thiess John Holland said Dandenong S...

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First tests on equipment that will provide key data on the current state of Arctic ice have been successful. In 2008, explorer Pen Hadow will trek 2,000km across the North Pole, dragging a radar that will probe the thickness of the ever-shrinking ice-cap. In advance of the expedition, the team heade...

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Geologically the Rock of Gibraltar can be interpreted as a klippe,. the eroded remnant of a nappe thrust to its present position during the forming of the Betic-Rif mountains in the late Cenezonic ( between the last 22 and 2 million years ago) which gradually rose from the sea, and it's these land up-l...

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The northern shelf of the Santa Barbara basin exposes bedrock at several locations. Folded and faulted strata of the Upper Miocene Monterey and Sisquoc Formations crop out on the shelf south of Goleta, where there are also extensive active hydrocarbon seeps. The shelf edge between Santa Barbara a...

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Mount Kelud is a volcano on the Indonesian island of Java, near the city of Yogyakarta. It erupts frequently, producing ashfalls and mudflows. The most recent eruption was in 1990. Activity is heightened there now and, fearing an eruption, authorities are preparing to evacuate thousands of peopl...

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Tropical Storm Peipah is forecast to make landfall in the Philippines in about 24 hours probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% probability for TS is 100% Soliven (17.0 N, 122.4 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 24 hours probability for TS is 95% within 12...

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	Nafanua (Preview) A team of scientists, led by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, has discovered an active underwater volcano near the Samoan Island chain. During a research cruise to study the Samoan hot spot, scientists uncovered a submarine volcano g...	Blobrana	1	Nov 20 14:27 2007 by Blobrana
	McMurdo Station Antarctic (Preview) The Coast Guard became part of the Air Force-led Joint Task Force Support Forces Antarctica Jan. 1 with the arrival of the Cutter Polar Sea at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Home ported in Seattle, the Polar Sea arrived after a month-long voyage including stops in Honolulu and Sydney, Australia. ...	Blobrana	2	Nov 16 17:35 2007 by Blobrana
	Wushan Man (Preview) Chinese archaeologists said they have found fossilised remains of a primitive human species that lived about 2.04 million years ago in the Three Gorges Area in southwest China, the earliest ever found in the country. The findings, including a lower jawbone fragment, an incisor and more than 230 pi...	Blobrana	0	Nov 14 07:30 2007 by Blobrana
	Human ancestors were gatherers (Preview) Published the week of Nov. 12 in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study documents the use of digging tools among chimpanzees inhabiting the Ugalla region of western Tanzania. An arid woodland savannah, Ugalla is thought to be an environment simi...	Blobrana	3	Nov 13 23:18 2007 by Blobrana
	Nakalipithecus nakayamai (Preview) Fossil hunters exploring the eastern edge of the Rift Valley of Kenya have found the jawbone of a 10-million-year-old ape that appears to be a close relative of the last ancestor of humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas. The discovery of this ancient ape strikes a new blow against a theory that apes in Af...	Blobrana	1	Nov 13 13:34 2007 by Blobrana
	Lambayeque valley temple (Preview) A 4,000-year-old temple filled with murals has been unearthed on the northern coast of Peru, making it one of the oldest finds in the Americas, a leading archaeologist said on Saturday. The temple, inside a larger ruin, includes a staircase that leads up to an altar used for fire worship at a site scie...	Blobrana	1	Nov 12 14:16 2007 by Blobrana
	Ko San (Preview) Officials in South Korea have chosen a 30-year-old engineer to be the country's first citizen in space. Ko San, who works at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, will fly with two Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station in 2008. He will spend seven or eight days there, conducting a...	Blobrana	1	Nov 12 07:30 2007 by Blobrana
	53rd Antarctic Expedition Antarctic (Preview) The "Akademik Fyodorov" research vessel left the Saint Petersburg port in the small hours of November 6 and is now on its way to the Antarctic. Russia's 53rd Antarctic Expedition is made up of 102 expedition members and 70 sailors. The ship is to visit the port of Bremerhaven in German...	Blobrana	0	Nov 8 17:14 2007 by Blobrana
	Aboriginal site found Archaeology (Preview) Builders are now constructing the Dandenong Southern Bypass through an ancient Aboriginal site. The site in Dandenong South (Victoria, Australia) has had sand tested at 35,000 years old with artefacts estimated to be about 17,000 years old. A spokesman for Thiess John Holland said Dandenong S...	Blobrana	1	Nov 8 16:51 2007 by Blobrana
	Vanco Arctic Survey (Preview) First tests on equipment that will provide key data on the current state of Arctic ice have been successful. In 2008, explorer Pen Hadow will trek 2,000km across the North Pole, dragging a radar that will probe the thickness of the ever-shrinking ice-cap. In advance of the expedition, the team heade...	Blobrana	0	Nov 8 09:12 2007 by Blobrana
	Scottish space agency (Preview) [url=http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/features/di...	Blobrana	0	Nov 8 09:07 2007 by Blobrana
	Rock of Gibraltar (Preview) Geologically the Rock of Gibraltar can be interpreted as a klippe,. the eroded remnant of a nappe thrust to its present position during the forming of the Betic-Rif mountains in the late Cenezonic ( between the last 22 and 2 million years ago) which gradually rose from the sea, and it's these land up-l...	Blobrana	0	Nov 6 08:01 2007 by Blobrana
	The Goleta landslide (Preview) The northern shelf of the Santa Barbara basin exposes bedrock at several locations. Folded and faulted strata of the Upper Miocene Monterey and Sisquoc Formations crop out on the shelf south of Goleta, where there are also extensive active hydrocarbon seeps. The shelf edge between Santa Barbara a...	Blobrana	0	Nov 6 07:14 2007 by Blobrana
	Mount Kelud Volcano (Preview) Mount Kelud is a volcano on the Indonesian island of Java, near the city of Yogyakarta. It erupts frequently, producing ashfalls and mudflows. The most recent eruption was in 1990. Activity is heightened there now and, fearing an eruption, authorities are preparing to evacuate thousands of peopl...	Blobrana	5	Nov 5 20:55 2007 by Blobrana
	Tropical Storm Peipah (Preview) Tropical Storm Peipah is forecast to make landfall in the Philippines in about 24 hours probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% probability for TS is 100% Soliven (17.0 N, 122.4 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 24 hours probability for TS is 95% within 12...	Blobrana	0	Nov 4 05:50 2007 by Blobrana
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