Volcanic eruptions deep in our oceans unleash powerful blasts of energy at a rate high enough to power an entire CONTINENT, study finds Researchers made a mathematical model to understand underwater eruptions Found they spew out vast ash clouds which drive megaplumes of hot air They are powered by huge amounts of energy equivalent to the US’s energy … Read more
Mapping Zealandia: Scientists are exploring the sea floor off the coast of Australia in the hopes of unravelling the mystery of Earth’s ‘hidden’ eighth continent that sank into the sea 23 million years ago The ‘lost’ continent of Zealandia was first identified by geologists back in 2014 Australian and US experts mapped the depths across Zealandia’s … Read more
Mapping Zealandia: Scientists are exploring the sea floor off the coast of Australia in the hopes of unravelling the mystery of Earth’s ‘hidden’ eighth continent that sank into the sea 23 million years ago The ‘lost’ continent of Zealandia was first identified by geologists back in 2014 Australian and US experts mapped the depths across Zealandia’s … Read more
Summer holidays all but cancelled as downbeat Boris Johnson warns ‘things are looking difficult on the continent’ with a new wave of Covid and refuses to confirm if he will go abroad with his family The Prime Minister faced a wide-ranging grilling from senior MPs this afternoon Foreign travel due to restart no earlier than … Read more
Holiday passport is on! EU is ready to agree to issuing digital pass that will allow Britons to travel to resorts if they have been vaccinated or have Covid antibodies… as tech firm asks to trial similar scheme for our pubs Bloc publishes details of ‘digital green pass’, piling pressure on Grant Shapps Those from … Read more
Don’t eat the ORANGE snow! Plume of Saharan sands turns the ski resorts of the Alps ski resorts deep apricot after being blown thousands of miles from Africa Cross-country ski track in Val Ferret, Switzerland, was scattered with the sand A skier in the Pyrenees also captured the blanket of sand covering the snow The … Read more
Covid reaches ANTARCTICA: 36 people stationed at a Chilean research base catch the disease – meaning it has now spread to every continent 36 people at General Bernardo O’Higgins Riquelme base tested positive Monday This includes 26 army personnel and another 10 contractors doing maintenance The Chilean army said it had flown all those who tested … Read more
EU demands that banks move jobs from the City to the continent if they want to continue doing business after Brexit – as hopes of a trade deal grow after ‘France blinks over fishing rights’ The European Central Bank (ECB)addressed UK-based banks today Told City financial institutions not to use Covid as an excuse to … Read more
Protesters have taken to the streets in Spain and Italy again to vent their fury at new coronavirus restrictions as Europe teeters on the brink of a second full lockdown. Fireworks were set off in the city of Seville overnight with wheelie bins set on fire before police shut down the demonstrations. Meanwhile protesters clashed … Read more
Lost continent of Zealandia that sank into the sea 23 million years ago is revealed in unprecedented detail in new maps of the ocean floor Geologists from New Zealand created the new tectonic and bathymetric maps They are available both in print and in interactive from on a new web portal Covering some 1,930,511 square miles, Zealandia … Read more