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Von Thailand bis Tahiti

By Guest PostMarch 30, 2014Environmentbuy sex, chilli pflanze, deutschland, Dubai, earth hour, felix fornoff, golden gate bridge, great barrier reef, Japan, las vegas, neil malamuth, san francisco, schwebfliege, sexually coercive, sudan, tahiti, Thailand, wwf

Neue Rekorde bei globaler Klimaschutzaktion Earth Hour / 162 Länder und 7.000 Städte rufen zum Schutz des Planeten auf

Berlin – Von Thailand bis Tahiti, vom Vatikan bis Las Vegas und von der Internationalen Raumstation bis in den Sudan – am Samstag fand die achte WWF Earth Hour unter Rekordbeteiligung statt. Um ein Zeichen für den Schutz des Planeten zu setzen, schalteten jeweils um 20.30 Uhr Ortszeit Millionen Menschen und über 7.000 Städte in insgesamt 162 Ländern die Lichter aus. Während der „Stunde der Erde“ erlosch die Beleuchtung zahlreicher symbolträchtiger Bauwerke und Orte, darunter die Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, der Petersdom im Vatikan, der Las Vegas Strip, der Burj Khalifa in Dubai oder der Tokyo Tower in Japan. Höher als je zuvor fiel auch die Teilnahme in Deutschland aus – 160 Städte und Gemeinden folgten dem Aufruf des WWF. (more…)

Enormous scale of Nile ‘mega lake’ revealed

By Guest PostJanuary 19, 2014Environment, Sciencedavid haberlah, east africa, eastern sahara desert, egypt, exposure, isotope beryllium 10, lake baikal, lake michigan, lake tanganyika, nile mega lake, shoreline deposits, Siberia, sudan, surface area, tim barrows, university of exeter, US, valley, white nile river

The eastern Sahara Desert was once home to a 45,000 km²freshwater lake similar in surface area to the largest in the world today.

A study led by the University of Exeter has revealed that the mega lake was probably formed more than one hundred thousand years ago in the White Nile River Valley in Sudan.

Dr Tim Barrows of the University of Exeter and colleagues used a dating approach based on exposure to cosmic rays to measure the amount of the isotope beryllium-10 in shoreline deposits. Its abundance can be used to calculate how long rocks or sediments have been exposed at the surface of the earth. (more…)

Amateur Astronomers to ‘Target Asteroids!’

By Guest PostApril 21, 2012Science1999 rq36, amateur astronomer, asteroid, carl hergenrother, catalina sky survey, ccd camera, colorado plateau, dante lauretta, dolores hill, earth orbit, ed beshore, image, meteor crater, meteorites, northern arizona, nubian desert, osiris rex, primitive asteroid, rotation rate, solar system, space mission, sudan, target asteroids, tim hunter

Researchers on NASA’s robotic asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, are turning to amateur astronomers for new data on near-Earth asteroids in a citizen science observing campaign called Target Asteroids!

Amateur astronomers are about to make observations that will affect current and future space missions to asteroids.

Some will use custom-made, often automated telescopes equipped with CCD cameras in their backyards. Others will use home computers to make remote observations with more powerful telescopes states or continents away. Many belong to leading national and international amateur astronomy organizations with members ranging from retirees to school kids. (more…)

Making The Bones Speak

By Guest PostFebruary 21, 2012Scienceafrican skeleton, african sun, albania, ancient egypt, andrea clowes, angela soler, anthropologist, bones, british museum, carolyn hurst, cate bird, derek welsby, dietary habits, excavation, forensic scientist, fourth cataract, giltner hall, kailey shelton, lindsey jenny, margaret zywicki, merowe dam, michigan state university, middle ages, mis island, nile river, nubian bones, nubian remains, nubians, sex, skeletal collection, sudan, todd fenton, tracey tichnell, trauma, unexplored culture, yellow scorpion

EAST LANSING, Mich. — In a narrow, modest laboratory in Michigan State University’s Giltner Hall, students pore over African skeletons from the Middle Ages in an effort to make the bones speak.

Little is known about these Nubians, meaning the information collected by graduate and undergraduate students in MSU’s Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Program will help shed light on this unexplored culture. (more…)

‘Breast Ironing’ in Cameroon

By ShamsJuly 24, 2010Culturebreast ironing, cameroon, egypt, ethiopia, female circumcision, female genital mutilation, psychological problems, sudan

Female circumcision or female genital mutilation is common in many countries like Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia.

However, ‘breast ironing’ is some kind of new addition to this ‘ill- and evil’ practice.

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Von Thailand bis Tahiti

Enormous scale of Nile ‘mega lake’ revealed

Amateur Astronomers to ‘Target Asteroids!’

Making The Bones Speak

‘Breast Ironing’ in Cameroon