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NTU offering courses in earth sciences (AsiaOne)
FIELD trips to active volcanoes and earthquake sites are in store for students of Nanyang Technological University's (NTU) Division of Earth Sciences - the first of its kind in a Singapore university.
6.2-Magnitude Quake Hits the Philippines (ABC News)
6.2-magnitude earthquake hits west of Manila; no immediate reports of damage. Manila - Philippine - Earthquake - Asia - Earth Sciences
How Dinosaurs Came to Rule the Earth (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News)
More than 200 million years ago, as North Africa was ripping away from North America, opening up the Atlantic Ocean, hot lava poured out from Earth's surface. The lava, enough to more than cover the United States, created inhospitable conditions for most life ... except the dinosaurs.
Dept of Earth Sciences envisages creation of underwater corridor (New Kerala)
Thanjavur, Mar 20 : The Department of Earth Sciences, Government of India, in its vision document, has envisaged creation of an underwater corridor in Poompuhar sea in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu, to show the excavations done by National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) and Underwater Archaeology department of Tamil University.
Volcanoes helped dinosaurs rule Earth, say scientists (Guardian Unlimited)
Massive eruptions triggered by separation of tectonic plates killed off dominant crurotarsans, fossil evidence shows Volcanoes that spewed out lava and noxious gases for more than half a million years paved the way for dinosaurs to rule the Earth by wiping out their competitors, scientists say. The environmental devastation wrought by relentless volcanic activity at the end of the Triassic ...
Climate change disaster killed off the 'terrible lizards' and helped dinosaurs to rule the Earth (Daily Mail: World News)
Dinosaurs took advantage of an earlier catastrophe to become the dominant creatures on Earth, scientists believe.
Erupting volcanoes ushered in dinosaurs, study says (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Dinosaurs rose to dominance 200 million years ago after volcanic eruptions killed off their rivals, and were later wiped from the face of the Earth by a meteorite, paleontologists have found.
Challenges threaten sustainability of life on Earth, says U.S. expert (People's Daily)
There are tremendous advancements in science and technology that improve the facilities for life, but there are also great challenges that threaten the sustainability of life on planet Earth, according to a U.S. expert in bioengineering and medicine. Shu Chien, director of the Institute of Engineering in Medicine at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), told Xinhua in a recent ...
Killer Volcanic Eruptions Ushered in Dinosaurs (Fox News)
Dinosaurs first came to be 200 million years ago after volcanic eruptions killed off their rivals, long before the giant beasts were wiped from the face of the Earth by a meteorite.
Dinosaurs were simply lucky - study (Pretoria News)
Washington - Dinosaurs first came to be 200 million years ago after volcanic eruptions killed off their rivals, and were later wiped from the face of the Earth by a meteorite, paleontologists have found.
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