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Sand overextraction weakening riverbanks as concrete demand soars
2+ week, 5+ day ago (245+ words) The Guardian Sand overextraction weakening riverbanks as concrete demand soars Research finds demand has more than doubled since 2000 and 80% of current demand comes from Asia A booming demand for concrete has resulted in sand and gravel being extracted from riverbeds…...
Powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake strikes Kumamoto, tsunami advisory issued
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (283+ words) 26h July 2026 – (Hong Kong) A strong earthquake measuring a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 struck Kumamoto prefecture in southern Japan on 28 July, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), prompting tsunami advisories and emergency alerts across Kyushu. The quake, which occurred at a…...
Powerful 7.1-magnitude quake hits southern Japan, tsunami alert issued
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (67+ words) A strong 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit southern Japan on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, issuing a tsunami alert. The tremor also measured at the highest possible level seven on Japan's own Shindo scale of shaking, the agency said. 7.3 magnitude quake…...
Zealandia: Earth's eighth continent is 94 per cent underwater, and it took geologists until 2017 to officially say so
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (207+ words) Zealandia: Earth's eighth continent is 94 per cent underwater, and it took geologists until 2017 to offic The Times of India - Zealandia: Earth's eighth continent is 94 per cent underwater, and it took geologists until 2017 to officially say so What Zealandia is and…...
Zealandia, the submerged continent geologists confirmed in 2017, is 94 percent underwater and stretches nearly two million square miles beneath the South Pacific, yet its modern name was quietly proposed by geophysicist Bruce Luyendyk in 1995
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (43+ words) In 1995, geophysicist Bruce Luyendyk proposed calling the submerged landmass around New Zealand a single name: Zealandia. Twenty-two years later, a team led by Nick Mortimer formally confirmed it as Earth's eighth continent, 94 percent of it hidden beneath the South Pacific....
A team led by Nick Mortimer at GNS Science in New Zealand spent two decades mapping the basalt and granite floor of the Tasman region before formally naming Zealandia in a 2017 paper, ending more than a century of arguments about whether a submerged landmass could still count as a continent.
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (883+ words) For more than a century, schoolchildren have learned that Earth has seven continents, and for more than a century that count has been wrong. Published May 31, 2026 The claim was not that Mortimer’s team had discovered new land. The claim was…...
12 Rivers That Flow Backward Here is Why
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (543+ words) Home » Wildlife » 12 Rivers That Flow Backward Here is Why The mighty Mississippi River is not immune to backward flow, though it occurs under extraordinary circumstances. Major hurricanes, like Hurricane Katrina, have been powerful enough to reverse the flow temporarily. During…...