Environment

A canyon system potentially bigger than the Grand Canyon in the U.S. could be hiding beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, measuring 1,000km long and as much as 1km deep.  Researchers from Durham University and Imperial College London – along with American, Australian, Indian, and Chinese scientists studying satellite data, think that a massive canyon system could be hidden underneath a largely unexplored region of the Antarctic, called Princess Elizabeth Land. The study is being verified by a geological survey, which is now under way.

A hydraulic fracturing operation in Alberta has been shut down indefinitely after an earthquake hit the area Tuesday. The energy company has stopped operating in a part of Alberta that is subject to heavy hydraulic fracking after the province’s energy regulator reported the area’s largest earthquake in more than a year. The magnitude 4.8 quake was reported at 11:27 a.m., said the Alberta Energy Regulator, which ordered the shutdown of the Repsol Oil & Gas site near Fox Creek.

A US government insider has revealed that ISIS are planning to ignite the leaking gas well in Porter Ranch in order to  “detonate Los Angeles” and flatten it.  The gas leak, located in the Aliso Canyon gas field in Porter Ranch, has been emitting tons of methane gas for the last few months, and authorities have so far failed to plug the leak. Many have declared the situation as the worst natural disaster since the BP oil spill.

Well that escalated quickly...

Geologists have discovered a meteorite fragment, estimated to be 4.5 billion years old, in Australia. After a greenish fireball streaked above the Australian Outback in November, meteorite researchers went hunting for the space rock that had caused the cosmic display.