A BLAST from the past has left tantalising hints that volcanic eruptions could be predicted decades in advance. Volcanoes can signal their intent to erupt days or months ahead of time, giving authorities a chance to evacuate the area. Now evidence of the events leading up to a Bronze Age eruption suggests it might be [...]
Read the rest of this story »A new planet, probably a rocky super-Earth has been found squarely within its star’s habitable zone, making it one of the best candidates yet to support life, its discoverers say. The planet, dubbed GJ 667Cc, orbits a red dwarf star 22 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Scorpio. Binary pair of orange dwarf stars are [...]
Read the rest of this story »Some mammals need roughly 24 million generations to go from mouse-size to elephant-size, a new study says. Using both fossil and living specimens, scientists calculated growth rates for 28 different mammalian groups during the past 65 million years—and found that, for mammals, getting big takes longer than shrinking. It takes a minimum of 1.6 million generations [...]
Read the rest of this story »Astronomers have created the world’s largest virtual optical telescope, linking four telescopes in Chile so that they operate as a single device. The telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory form a virtual mirror of 130m (424ft) in diameter. A previous attempt to link the telescopes last March failed. Thursday’s link-up [...]
Read the rest of this story »*To save lives on Volta Lake About 109 life guards who underwent a two-week extensive training to beef up operations on the Volta Lake to help safeguard lives and property of Ghanaians who conduct daily business on and around the lake, passed out on friday. The training, which was a collaboration between Zoil Services Limited [...]
Read the rest of this story »The River Pra is to be dredged to enable the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) to obtain enough water at the Bosomase and Daboase water intake points and distribute to consumers in Sekondi-Takoradi. Deputy Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Dr. Hannah Bissiw, made this known on Tuesday, when she interacted with journalists after [...]
Read the rest of this story »Microscopic plastic debris from washing clothes is accumulating in the marine environment and could be entering the food chain, a study has warned. Researchers traced the “microplastic” back to synthetic clothes, which released up to 1,900 tiny fibres per garment every time they were washed. Earlier research showed plastic smaller than 1mm were being eaten [...]
Read the rest of this story »The Ghana Planeteer Movement, the local chapter of the Captain Planet Foundation, will host two top US environmentalists, Laura Seydel-Turner, Chairperson of the Captain Planet Foundation, and Barbara Pyle, founder of the foundation. They would participate in a series of activities scheduled from the 1st to the 5th of February. While in Ghana on their five-day visit, [...]
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