Goverment of Zimbabwe has banned 40 water bottling firms for failing to meet safety and quality standards. This follows an influx of bottled water suppliers in response to a surge in demand. Acting Secretary for Health and Child Welfare Dr Davis Dhlakama said only
UPDATE: USGS has revised magnitude to 6.1 A strong earthquake has struck near the Japan nuclear power plant that was hit by a tsunami earlier this year. There are no immediate reports of damage or injuries.The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-5.9 6.1
Vultures in South Asia were on the brink of extinction until Lindsay Oaks and Richard Watson, from The Peregrine Fund in the US, undertook observational and forensic studies to find out why the number of birds was falling so rapidly. They discovered the vultures were
Hurricane Kenneth became a major category4 storm off the Pacific coast of Mexico early Tuesday but posed no immediate threat to land. Hurricane Kenneth, which gained monster Category 4 status, is the strongest hurricane ever so late in the season for the basin. No
A tracking station at Perth, Australia established contact with the Russian “lost” spacecraft Phobos-Grunt on November 22 at 20:25 UT. This was the first signal received on Earth since the mission to Mars’ Phobos moon was launched on November 8, 2011. Roscosmos
Earth-facing sunspot 1356 has developed a “beta-gamma” magnetic field that harbors energy for M-class solar flares. NOAA forecasters estimate a 30% chance of such an eruption during the next 24 hours.A bright Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) is seen in the latest Lasco
The Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the United States’ newest Earth-observing satellite, NPP, acquired its first measurements on November 21, 2011. VIIRS collects radiometric imagery in visible and infrared wavelengths of the Earth’s land,
Heavy rains two days ago caused a 274 metre section of the road near San Pedro, south of Los Angeles crumbled and fell into the Pacific Ocean, leaving a gaping hole in a cliffside.The road had already been closed to pedestrians and vehicle traffic after cracks
The Guatemalan geophysical survey SERNAGEOMIN reports increasing explosive activity from Fuego volcano, one of the country’s most active volcanoes. Fuego was observed producing ash clouds reaching 1500-2000 m above the summit crater (at ca. 3600 m altitude) which
Magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit Bolivia at at 18:48:15 UTC. The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) SSW of Trinidad, 251 km (155 miles) NNE of Cochabamba, 342 km (212 miles) NW of Santa Cruz and 350 km (217 miles) ENE of La Paz, Bolivia (15.345°S, 65.110°W) according
