Selected recent news, chosen mainly to be of relevance to students at Hamrahlíð College: most links take you to official or reliable web sites currently covering the events. You can get in-depth information at other GEO. news pages

Choose from either scientific field

Earth science
(Sumatra earthquake)

Space
(Mars life?,Titan atmosphere probe,ISST., etc.)

last update: 08.11.2005

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last update: 08.11.2005

Earthquake 8,7 M Sumatra, 28 March (IRIS) - near Christmas 2004 epicentre, no large tsunami

Stromboli eruption, April. Pictures and reports. (Stromboli online)

NASA begins issuing its new radar map of world
(release stopped since 11.09.2001)

Etna current eruption:
Regular professional reports - see GEO. eruption links

Life without light - photosynthesis vs. chemosynthesis - Major Woods Hole expedition to Indian Ocean studying life at hydrothermal vents (NASA science)
see also Dive and discover (Woods Hole)

New evidence for causes of extinction?
Apocalypse Then (NASA science) - fullerenes from Permian-Triassic boundary layer may hold clues.
The Incredible Shrinking Ozone Hole (NASA)
- ozone hole closed earlier than usual this year

The two large earthquakes in the South Iceland
seismic zone on June 17 and 21, 2000
(Ragnar Stefánsson, Gunnar B. Guðmundsson, Páll Halldórsson - Meteorological Office-Geophysics, Reykjavík)
(ORFEUS)

Continental drift and the future - Continents in Collision:
Pangea Ultima (NASA Science)

Hekla eruption 26.02.2000
links to Icelandic authorities in earth science