Wall Street sets record highs after passage of Donald Trump’s tax cuts Investors buy heavily into US shares in wake of Senate’s passage of package of big tax cuts for corporations and high earners Shares on Wall Street have hit record levels as financial markets around the world anticipate the […]
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Did France ban neonicotinoids? Well, there is a ban intended to take effect in 2020, but the situation is actually a little more complicated than that. The French government promised a total ban of all neonicotinoids in France, which goes further than the earlier EU restrictions to the use of […]
https://youtu.be/3I-pJuDvwCE Tens of thousands of travellers have been stranded on Bali after an erupting volcano forced the Indonesian island’s international airport to close. Mount Agung has been hurling clouds of white and dark gray ash about 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) into the atmosphere since the weekend and lava is welling up […]
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“Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp. What is the message signalled by the hordes of diatoms, flashing their microscopic lights in the night sea?” SATURDAYS@ 9AM EST-USA / FRIDAY 3 AM […]
The Beast is back. The seismic blaster, the Amazon Warrior, left New Caledonia yesterday. Next stop: AOTEAROA, NEW ZEALAND. Its mission: To carry out seismic blasting for oil right in the middle of a blue whale habitat, looking for oil that we cannot afford to burn. But there’s good news. It doesn’t yet […]
MrMBB333 Published on Nov 19, 2017 Update on the football field size asteroid approaching earth. Yet ANOTHER large fireball spotted by 100’s of citizens in Southern California. (11/18/2017) Two Tennessee seismographs are displaying very odd energy signatures that are not consistent with earthquake energy.
A powerful magnitude 7 undersea earthquake struck east of New Caledonia’s Loyalty Islands in the South Pacific on Monday, sending small tsunamis towards New Caledonia and neighbouring Vanuatu, where authorities ordered evacuations. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Hawaii issued a tsunami warning for coastlines within 300 kms (186 […]
I’m always wary of earthquake “predictions” for obvious reasons. I’ve heard enough of them that never came to anything more than panickmongering, but still, I berated a number of luminaries for announcing the 2010 NZ Greendale quake to be a “once in 16000 year event” when another earthquake could occur […]
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/880190/North-Korea-earthquake-aftershock-Korean-Peninsula-Sea-of-Japan-Ring-of-Fire-1978 NORTH Korean citizens have been warned to expect “large aftershocks” for months following the 5.4-magnitude tremor that struck South Korea on Wednesday. “South Korea has been relatively safe from major earthquakes, but geologists have expressed concern over the rising number of tremors felt in recent years and warned of […]