News tagged with kuril archipelago
Russia gains new land after quake, lava flows: scientist
Russia, the world's largest country, has grown even larger recently thanks to an earthquake and a volcanic eruption in its seismically active far eastern regions, a scientist said on Friday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Obsidian 'trail' provides clues to how humans settled, interacted in Kuril Islands
(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists have used stone tools to answer many questions about human ancestors in both the distant and near past and now they are analyzing the origin of obsidian flakes to better understand ...
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Jun 22, 2009 |
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Ghostly, Ethereal Island as seen from space
Looking rather otherworldly, this haunting view of Shikotan-to island shows ghostly swirls of sea ice surrounding the snow-covered volcanic island. Also known as Ostrov Shikotan, this island is at the southern ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2011 |
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Too hot, too cold, just right: Testing the limits of where humans can live
On an isolated segment of islands in the Pacific Ring of Fire, residents endure volcanoes, tsunamis, dense fog, steep cliffs and long and chilly winters. Sounds homey, huh?
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Feb 20, 2011 |
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Arctic Seed Vault becomes world's most diverse collection of crop diversity
Days after celebrating its second anniversary, the Svalbard "Doomsday" Global Seed Vault is receiving this week thousands of new seeds that will push its collection to more than half a million unique samples, ...
Mar 10, 2010 |
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