KEY POINTS Almost four weeks after the magnitude 7.5 earthquake of 9 October, around 3,300 people remain in shelters, a quarter fewer than a week earlier, as more families return to their communities. Of the nearly 20,000 homes assessed, more than 4,600 have total damage,…
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Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a previously unknown Roman town near the Danube in Austria, potentially solving a mystery dating back almost 2,000 years, Popular Mechanics reported. The settlement, discovered near Stein between the Austrian towns of Enns and Sankt…
Study reveals a persistent, human-amplified mechanism by which lake tsunamis arise Medieval tsunamis on Lombardy’s Lake Iseo, which caused widespread destruction in nearby villages, were caused by centuries of sediment accumulation from farming, according to a new study. The threat…
Old white pine stumps within a CCC red pine plantati Old white pine stump within a northern hardwood forest. Century-old burned stump and a white pine. Prescribed burn under red pine sawtimber. Duck Lake Fire, Michigan DNR. Million-acre fires here?
© Esercito Italiano | CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 IT As climate change causes glaciers to retreat, it is not just a new face of Europe’s mountain destinations that is being revealed, but traces of their past too. Snow melt in the Dolomites has laid bare…
In a span of days, federal officials had to deal with explosives that were found at National Park Service sites on opposite sides of the country. On Oct. 30, the National Park Service announced in a public alert that workers had…
Given the potential importance of famine in medieval England, it is at least surprising that so little has been written on it. If we consider the greatest single famine event of the middle ages, the great famine of the early…
Drones caught the ghostly outlines of a 2,000-year-old city—before returning greenery erased them again. “These are the richest discoveries made there in the last 50 years, at least over the last two generations of archaeologists,” said Jordan Anastassov, archaeologist for…
is New Jersey’s Watchungs, low basalt ridges built by ancient lava that sheltered George Washington’s army. The highest point in New Jersey's Watchung Mountains is High Mountain in the town of Wayne, at just 879 feet above sea level. That makes…
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