Another Earthquake in Haiti?

Update, August 14, 2021 A new earthquake of magnitude 7.2 at shallow depths occurred, due to oblique reverse motion along the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone. According to the USGS, the earthquake most likely resulted from a fault that struck west … Continue reading →

Antarctica’s Accelerating Melt: Massive Sea Level Rise in Decades

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | With regard to climate change, exponential processes have been treated as if they would develop linearly, despite scientists knowing quite well that they would not. The sea-level rise of 10 to 16 feet will come in decades, rather than 200 years. It will submerge essentially every port city in the world.

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Amazon Rainforest Gets Half Its Nutrients From Tiny Spot in Sahara | Saúde da floresta amazônica

By Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic | Staff, Amazonia News. About 40 million tons of dust are transported annually from the Sahara to the Amazon basin. This represents half of the annual mineral supply that fertilizes the Amazon basin. Thus the health and productivity of the Amazon rainforest depends on a supply of dust from Africa. (English | Portuguese)

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USGS: Haiti, Dominican Republic Might Be Entering Seismic Cycle | Haïti et la République Dominicaine face à un nouveau cycle sismique

By Staff (kft, rc), AlterPresse. A study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) suggests that Haiti’s January 12, 2010 earthquake might represent the start of a new seismic cycle for the Enriquillo fault system, and the island might suffer strong earthquakes in coming years (English | French).

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Life Thrives Deep Below Caribbean Sea Floor at 450 Degrees C

By Staff, SPX via Terra Daily | Photos and video, Univ. Southampton and NOC | Haiti Chery. The world’s deepest undersea volcanic vent is the Cayman Trough, about 3 miles below the Cayman islands in the Caribbean. Springs, probably hotter than 450°C, shoot mineral-laden water more than 0.6 mile up into the sea. Throngs of shrimps and sea anemones live around the vents.

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Greenland Bedrock Underwent Significant Uplift in 2010 Ice Melt Spike

By Joshua S. Hill, Planet Save. The year 2010 saw an unusually high melting season in Greenland which subsequently caused the bedrock of the island to lose 100 billion tonnes of ice and uplift by as much as 20 millimetres.

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Sunken Parts of Gondwana Found Off Australia

By Amy Coopes, Cosmos Magazine. Rocks from two ‘islands’ on the remote sea floor 1,600 km west of Australia contained fossils of creatures found in shallow waters, meaning the ‘islands’ were once part of the continent at or above sea level.

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Ancient Rock Under Haiti Came from 1,000+ Miles Away

By Staff Writers, SPX via Terra Daily. A team of geologists found lavas on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola – home to Haiti and the Dominican Republic – that suggest the area is underlain by rocks almost a billion years older than previously believed.

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Haiti: A Six-Month Report Without Cute Baby Pictures or Demands for Aid Money

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Aid money comes with strings attached, and perhaps the most pernicious strings of all have been the projects to depopulate Haiti of its youngest citizens. Over 1,100 children were removed from Haiti to the U.S., on U.S. aircrafts and from a U.S.-controlled airport, immediately after the earthquake.

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