The Virtual Tribune
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Rocket Stage Forecast to Hit Moon’s Far Side in March 2022 Was Not the DSCOVR Launcher
CAPE CANAVERAL, Aug. 1 — The first known unintentional impact of human-made space debris with the Moon involved…
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Magnitude 5.1 Earthquake Strikes 132 km East-Northeast of Masohi, Indonesia
MASOHI, July 31 — The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has recorded a magnitude 5.1 earthquake striking 153 km…
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Iran War Oil Shock Hits Asia Hardest as Brent Swings Between $72 and $118
MANILA, July 30 — The global petroleum industry is bracing for a new shockwave after U.S. military strikes…
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Magnitude 5.3 Quake Strikes Off Bougainville, Felt Reports Absent
KOKOPO, Papua New Guinea, July 30 — A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck early Thursday, 217 kilometers southeast of…
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Russia’s Shadow Fleet: How Aging Tankers Evade Western Oil Sanctions
BRUSSELS, July 16 — Against this backdrop of escalating economic warfare, the European Union’s 21st sanctions package has…
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U.S.–Iran Escalation Threatens Global Oil Supply, Prices
WASHINGTON, July 30 — The resumption of U.S. strikes against Iran, following the initial missile attack, has pushed…
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Lidar Survey Finds 396 Previously Unknown Earthworks Beneath the Amazon Rainforest
MANAUS, July 29 — Hundreds of hidden structures have been identified beneath the Amazon rainforest, lifted from obscurity…
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Pre-Columbian Amazon: ‘Wilderness’ or ‘Cultural Parkland’?
BRASÍLIA, July 29 — The long-held view of the Amazon as a near-empty wilderness before European arrival is…
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EU Warns Wildfire Risk Is Shifting to Greece, Italy and Central Europe
ROME, July 28, 2026 — Europe is warming faster than any other continent, with temperatures rising at twice…
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Record Heat and Wildfires Force Thousands From Their Homes Across Southern Europe
BRUSSELS, July 28 — A 2023 report from the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission projects…
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Magnitude 5.1 Quake Hits Remote Western China at Shallow Depth
OULA XIUMA, China, July 28 — A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck 198 kilometres northwest of this remote settlement…
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Magnitude 6.8 quake strikes near Uto in Kyushu, USGS issues Red alert
UTO, July 28 — The story begins just after seven in the morning, universal time, when the ground…
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Magnitude 5.4 quake strikes shallow beneath central Iceland south of Akureyri
AKUREYRI, Iceland, July 28 — A magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck 110 km SSE of Akureyri, Iceland, at 05:36…
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Magnitude 5.8 quake strikes shallow northwest of Oula Xiuma, China
OULA XIUMA, China, July 28 — A magnitude 5.8 earthquake shook the ground 190 kilometres northwest of this…
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Magnitude 5.8 earthquake strikes northwest China, USGS issues yellow alert
OULA XIUMA, July 28 — A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck 191 km northwest of this Chinese settlement early…
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Oceans are losing dissolved oxygen as warming and nutrient runoff combine, a scientist warned
WASHINGTON, July 27, 2026 — A 2025 study in the journal Science documented that the ocean’s oxygen-starved zones…
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Climate Change Is Moving the World’s Fish, and Poor Coastal Nations Stand to Lose Most
WASHINGTON, July 27 — A 2025 study projects that by 2050, tropical oceans such as the Western Pacific…
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Experts Say Starship’s Heat Shield Is the Obstacle to Rapid Reuse, and NASA Has Not Helped
HAWTHORNE, Calif., July 27, 2026 — On the test stands in McGregor, Texas, engineers fire up another sequence:…
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Sanctions on Russia: From the 2014 Crimea Measures to the 2022 Invasion and After
BRUSSELS, July 27 — The tally of international sanctions on Russia has now passed 16,000 since 2022. On…
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Ocean Dead Zones Have Quadrupled Since the 1950s as Oxygen Levels Fall
NEW YORK, July 27 — A major new synthesis of ocean monitoring data, published this year in Science…
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Former NASA Engineer Calls Starship Heat Shield a Dead End for Rapid Reuse
The Thermal Protection Bottleneck BOCA CHICA, Texas, July 27 — Starship, the fully reusable super-heavy-lift launch vehicle SpaceX…
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Musk Calls Starship Heat Shield Problem Solved After Flight 13 Test
HAWTHORNE, July 27 — SpaceX’s Starship is designed to fly three times a day, per vehicle. But right…
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Google Discloses $94.1 Billion SpaceX Stake, About 6% of the Company, in Q2 Filing
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 26 — Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, quietly disclosed in a regulatory…
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NASA-Linked Group Wants Next-Generation Telescopes to Hunt for Alien Technology
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 26 — The hunt for Dyson spheres, those hypothetical megastructures that would wrap a star…
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