Earth sciences
Women’s organizations angered by scientist’s abuse confession
Turkey's leading women's associations strongly condemned scientist Celal Şengör who confessed to abusing one of his female students at Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ).
"She made me so furious that I lifted Saniye's [the student] skirt and gave a smack on her butt," the 66-year-old geologist said in a Zoom meeting uploaded on the internet on Aug. 20.
Tsunami signs installed across Istanbul amid quake warnings
Warning signs directing residents to evacuation areas in case of a tsunami have been installed by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality as concerns over a potential disaster of a large earthquake that is expected to hit Turkey continue to mount.
Turkey’s largest lake faces existential crisis due to global warming
While several major lakes in Central Anatolia are facing an existential crisis due to global warming, now the shoreline of Turkey's largest lake has begun a steady retreat, and replenishing precipitation seems to no longer maintain the basin's water levels.
The Greek “superfood” revealed
It is rich in numerous nutrients
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People were fleeing, strange flash was seen; there are dead in Mexico VIDEO / PHOTO
The epicenter was near the city of Acapulco at a depth of 20 kilometers, and the quake was also felt in Mexico City, which is 370 kilometers away from the coast, Reuters reports.
NASA confirms Perseverance Mars rover got its first piece of rock
NASA confirmed on Sept. 6 that its Perseverance Mars rover succeeded in collecting its first rock sample for scientists to pore over when a future mission eventually brings it back to Earth.
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"I've got it!" the space agency tweeted, alongside a photograph of a rock core slightly thicker than a pencil inside a sample tube.
Windy and Cloudy Tuesday in Bulgaria
Today the clouds will be variable, in the afternoon over the eastern regions they will be significant, but the probability of precipitation is small. This was announced for FOCUS News Agency by the weather forecaster on duty Martin Slavchev from the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH).
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4.2 earthquake near Nisyros island
Its focal depth was 14.4 km
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Bulgaria Today: Mostly Sunny with some Clouds
Today it will be mostly sunny, with temporary increases in cloudiness. The wind will be light from the north-northeast. Daily temperatures will rise and the maximum will be between 24° and 29° Celius. This was announced for FOCUS News Agency by Georgi Tsekov, weather forecaster on duty at the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH).
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Swiss glaciologist bears witness to relentless Alpine glacier melt
After hiking for hours across the mountain and a vast expanse of white, Swiss glaciologist Matthias Huss crouches down near the middle of the massive glacier and checks the measurements.
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Analysis of the data gathered from Aletsch, the largest glacier in the Alps, paints a dire picture of the toll that climate change is taking on the behemoth.