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Floodwater covers roads following heavy rain on April 4 in Hopkinsville, Ky. Credit: Jason Davis/Getty Images
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Atmospheric Rivers May be Diminishing on the West Coast and Surging in the East, Study Finds

  • August 10, 2025
It makes sense that atmospheric rivers would flood West Coast headlines as well as its coastlines. Eighty percent…
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Air quality health advisory issued for NYC metro region due to elevated ozone levels

  • August 10, 2025
New York (WRGB) — An Air Quality Health Advisory has been issued for the New York City Metro…
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Lagos Seals Lekki Estate Over Sewage Pollution into Drains
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Lagos Seals Lekki Estate Over Sewage Pollution into Drains

  • August 10, 2025
The Lagos State Government has sealed Myca 7 Court, Van Daniel Estate, off Orchid Road, Lekki, for allegedly…
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‘Erasure of years of work’: outcry as White House moves to open Arctic reserve to oil and gas drilling | Alaska
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‘Erasure of years of work’: outcry as White House moves to open Arctic reserve to oil and gas drilling | Alaska

  • August 10, 2025
The Trump administration’s plan to expand oil and gas drilling in a 23m acre reserve on the Arctic…
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N.J. city’s boil water advisory remains in effect as massive main break ‘more complicated’ than expected
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N.J. city’s boil water advisory remains in effect as massive main break ‘more complicated’ than expected

  • August 10, 2025
Repair operations on a 30-inch water main break in Paterson were expected to last through Saturday and “possibly”…
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Dumpster diver in disbelief after finding incredible haul of valuable items in trash: ‘$10,000 retail value’

  • August 10, 2025
The saying “one man’s trash is another’s treasure” is sometimes less an axiom about how different people value…
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Fishing in vast Pacific nature area halted after judge blocks Trump order
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Fishing in vast Pacific nature area halted after judge blocks Trump order

  • August 10, 2025
HONOLULU — Commercial fishing that recently resumed in a vast protected area of the Pacific Ocean must halt…
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What environmental challenges does the Mediterranean face? – DW – 08/09/2025
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What environmental challenges does the Mediterranean face? – DW – 08/09/2025

  • August 9, 2025
In the Libyan coastal city of Sirte, Mokhtar al-Rammash prepares to take his beat-up plastic boat out on another…
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Northwest Arkansas Council plans new recycling program
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Northwest Arkansas Council plans new recycling program

  • August 9, 2025
The NWA Council plans to make recycling a routine part of trash pickup. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Northwest Arkansas…
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Warming oceans could affect weather, ecosystems, and coastal communities
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Warming oceans could affect weather, ecosystems, and coastal communities

  • August 9, 2025
Oceans are heating up at unprecedented rates, posing threats to hurricanes and marine life. COLUMBIA, S.C. — Oceans…
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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…
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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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