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Onkalo, which means “cavity” in Finnish, is the name given to the planned facility which will store nuclear fuel waste for centuries to come.

Onkalo: World’s first final burial place for nuclear fuel waste getting ready

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Canada wildfires last year released more carbon than several countries

The Swiss approved the gradual phase-out of nuclear power in a referendum in 2017, by banning the construction of new power plants. That law was the result of a long process initiated after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, triggered by a tsunami. However, "since 2017, the situation on...

Switzerland reopens door for new nuclear power plants

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While Guinness World Records officially lists the Djoser Step pyramid in Egypt as the world’s oldest pyramid (around 2,630 BC), one paper published in October claimed a layer of the Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia was constructed as far back as 25,000 BC – though there has since been doubts as to whether the structure was ever man-made at all.In research led by Danny Hilman Natawidjaja of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, and published in the journal Archaeological Prospection, the academics write that “the pyramid’s core consists of meticulously sculpted massive andesite lava” and that the “oldest construction” element of...

'World’s oldest pyramid' built 25,000 years ago was not made by humans, archaeologists claim

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A crocodile killed a woman bathing in a river in eastern Indonesia, police and locals said Wednesday, with villagers later recovering parts of her body from the slaughtered animal.Halima Rahakbauw, 54, was swimming in a river in Wali village on the Maluku islands after spending Tuesday morning looking for clams when the reptile struck.Rahakbauw's neighbour, Rustam Ilyas, said relatives and friends started a search when she failed to return home.After spotting a sandal and a body part in the river, villagers reported the incident to police who killed the reptile."The villagers had to cut open the crocodile's belly to remove...

Crocodile kills woman bathing in a river in Indonesia

Japanese authorities are urging people across their country to take precautions against the possibility of a mega-earthquake in the coming days; if such a huge earthquake were to occur, there could be significant tsunami impacts across Hawaii and the west coast of North America. A strong magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck...

Megaquake Earthquake Advisory Issued; Expires in 7 Days

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TOKYO (AP) — An attempt to use an extendable robot to remove a fragment of melted fuel from a wrecked reactor at Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was suspended Thursday due to a technical issue. The collection of a tiny sample of the debris inside the...

A robot’s attempt to get a sample of the melted fuel at Japan’s damaged nuclear reactor is suspended

Imagine this dire scenario: the Atlantic Ocean's sea currents which bring warm water to Europe collapses, making large swaths of the continent as cold as the Arctic Circle. In a grim turn, that's just the scenario that a team of European scientists are warning about in a new study in the journal Nature Communications: that this catastrophic collapse — along with the ruination of the Amazon rainforest and the melting of polar ice — is on track to actually happen if we continue along our current path.

Major Earth Systems on Track for Collapse, Scientists Find

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Kayakers and snorkelers exploring the Southern California coast spotted an extremely rare oarfish, nicknamed a "doomsday fish" since they are seen in some parts of the world as harbingers of imminent disasters.  It's one of less than two dozen confirmed sightings of an oarfish in the state in over 120 years, according to UC  San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The oarfish is a "strikingly large, odd-looking fish" with a long, silvery, ribbon-shaped body, according to the Ocean Conservatory. The fish can grow to more than 30 feet long, and have large eyes and "foreboding" red spines in a crown-like...

Extremely rare "doomsday fish" found off California coast

Lowe's will no longer participate in surveys for Human Rights Campaign, an advocacy group supporting transgender rights, and is also combining its various business resource groups that represent diverse employees into one umbrella organization, an internal memo obtained by Reuters on Monday showed. The company will not be sponsoring or...

Home improvement retailer Lowe's latest U.S. firm to end some diversity policies

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a lower court judge had discretion to let drivers sue in groups over Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC vehicles equipped with 8L45 or 8L90 eight-speed automatic transmissions, and sold in the 2015 through 2019 model years. Drivers said the vehicles shudder and shake...

GM must face big class action over faulty transmissions

Archaeologists have unearthed a "stunning" Bronze Age burial chamber on one of Dartmoor’s most isolated hills. Experts discovered a stone-built box, sometimes known as a cist, at Cut Hill during a three-day dig earlier this month. Radiocarbon dating of charcoal found inside suggests the chamber, used to bury the...

'Stunning' burial chamber unearthed on Dartmoor

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The climbing season has begun in the Himalayas, with Madison Mountaineering expeditions embarking on 8,000-meter peaks.

Expeditions Begin on the 6th and 8th Highest Mountains in the World

The story of Greenland keeps getting greener—and scarier. A new study provides the first direct evidence that the center—not just the edges—of Greenland's ice sheet melted away in the recent geological past and the now-ice-covered island was then home to a green, tundra landscape. A team of...

Greenland fossil discovery stuns scientists and confirms that center of ice sheet melted in recent past

A volcano near a major naval base on Russia's eastern coast erupted early Sunday after a powerful magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck in the Pacific about 63 miles away, according to Russian state-run media. It briefly triggered a "code red" warning for aircraft.The Shiveluch volcano spewed an ash column as high as 5 mils above sea level and released a gush of lava, Tass news agency reported Sunday morning, citing scientists with the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.The volcano is about 280 miles from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a coastal city of more than 181,000...

Volcano erupts in Russia after powerful magnitude-7.0 earthquake

An Egyptian mission led by the Supreme Council of Antiquities has uncovered what is believed to be the first and largest astronomical observatory from the 6th century BCE at the ancient Buto Temple, located at the Tell El-Fara’in archaeological site in Egypt’s Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate. The observatory, constructed...

Ancient astronomical observatory discovered in Egypt

Nvidia said Wednesday that its board of directors has approved a $50 billion stock buyback. The computer chip giant announced the share repurchase as part of its fiscal second-quarter earnings, in which it reported earnings and guidance that surpassed Wall Street expectations. In May, Apple announced a $110 billion stock...

Nvidia announces $50 billion stock buyback

Jim Cramer's daily rapid fire looks at stocks in the news outside the CNBC Investing Club portfolio.

Tuesday’s rapid-fire: Coca-Cola, Hershey, Cleveland Cliffs, Ferrari, BlackRock

This summer, the mountains of Møre og Romsdal in Western Norway are experiencing unusually low levels of snow, prompting archaeologists to issue a public appeal to hikers and outdoor enthusiasts to be vigilant for ancient artifacts emerging from melting snowfields. The Møre og Romsdal County Municipality, alongside archaeologists Guro Dehli Sanden and Kristoffer Dahle, is calling on anyone in the region to report any objects they find, as these items could be of significant archaeological value.

Archaeologists urge vigilance as melting snow in Western Norway reveals ancient artifacts

Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet tall, earning them the nickname "hobbits."Now a new study suggests ancestors of the hobbits were even slightly shorter."We did not expect that we would find smaller individuals from such an old site," said Yousuke Kaifu, co-author of the study, which was published on Tuesday in the journal Nature. The original hobbit fossils date back to between 60,000 and 100,000 years ago. The new fossils were excavated at a site called Mata Menge, about 45 miles from the cave where...

Discovery of "hobbit" fossils suggests tiny humans once roamed Indonesia

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Finland will soon bury nuclear waste in a geological tomb that’s built to last for 100,000 years

Finland is on the cusp of becoming the world's first country to bury spent nuclear fuel in a geological tomb where it will be stored for...

Finland will soon bury nuclear waste in a geological tomb that’s built to last for 100,000 years

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