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Environment
Indonesia’s Mount Ibu erupts more than 1,000 times this month
Mount Ibu on Indonesia’s Halmahera Island has erupted more than 1,000 times this month. A volcano in eastern Indonesia has erupted at least a thousand times this month, according to an official report on Sunday, and efforts are underway to evacuate thousands of villagers living near Mount Gorogoro. Mount Ibu on the remote island of Halmahera in North Maluku province…
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Earth
Why is Mount Everest so big? New study highlights river of injustice, but deeper forces are at work
Map of normalized channel steepness (ksn) as a measure of stream power. Credit: Nature Geoscience (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41561-024-01535-w Mount Everest (also known as Chomolungma or Sagarmatha) is famous for being the tallest mountain in the Himalayas, and indeed on Earth. but why? At 8,849 meters above sea level, Mount Everest is about 250 meters higher than the other great mountains…
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