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ITER. HQ. FRANCE. NUCLEAR FUSION ENERGY. Main Control Room. First CODAC Command Issued.

ION correspondentJanuary 17, 2025January 17, 2025

Pressure and levels? Nominal. Valves? Open. Protections? In place. As all “permissives” are go , the process can now be activated. A click of a mouse and—in a building...

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Chilean president Gabriel Boric makes historic trip to South Pole, becoming the first head of state to visit and third head of government.

ION correspondentJanuary 12, 2025January 12, 2025

Gabriel Boric during his historic visit to the South Pole. 3rd. January, 2025. Picture by Gobierno de Chile. Chilean president Gabriel Boric has made a historic trip to the...

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Phytoplankton Flourish in Patagonian Waters.

ION correspondentJanuary 7, 2025January 7, 2025

December 28, 2024. Bloom season, already underway for several months, continued to dazzle in the productive South Atlantic waters off Argentina. Earlier, in austral spring 2024, satellites captured a...

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Winter Blast of Dust in the Middle East.

ION correspondentDecember 22, 2024December 22, 2024

December 14, 2024. A dust storm swept through the Tigris–Euphrates river basin in mid-December 2024. Blowing hundreds of kilometers from eastern Syria and northern Iraq toward the Persian Gulf,...

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Over 77% of Earth’s land has become significantly drier in past 30 years. UN.

ION correspondentDecember 10, 2024December 10, 2024

December 9, 2024 7:15 PM. The United Nations revealed that over 77 percent of the Earth’s land has become significantly drier in the past 30 years. According to a...

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Footprints in Deep Time.

ION correspondentDecember 8, 2024December 8, 2024

December 5, 2024 by Sam Illingworth.. Two paths cross –dialogues etchedin lakebed sandsand space,silentyet howling.Bare traceson a shared canvas,onethen another –rhythms capturedby the press of time.Neither voicenor echoat the...

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Heavy Snows in Korea.

ION correspondentDecember 7, 2024December 7, 2024

November 29, 2024.. Wintry weather arrived in full force in South Korea. In the last week of November 2024, a storm brought record-breaking accumulations of snow to Seoul. The...

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Hurricane Rafael Crosses Cuba.

ION correspondentNovember 10, 2024November 10, 2024

November 7, 2024.. Hurricane Rafael made landfall in the western Cuban province of Artemisa as a Category 3 storm on the afternoon of November 6, 2024. The hurricane approached...

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Three Storms Churn in an Active Atlantic.

ION correspondentOctober 21, 2024October 21, 2024

October 6, 2024. From the stable Lagrange point 1, located one million miles above Earth, NASA’s EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera) imager on the DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory)...

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ITER HQ France. Nuclear Fusion. Clean Energy Generation. Divertor Manufacturing. Japan Qualifies Vertical Target.

ION correspondentOctober 20, 2024October 20, 2024

This outer vertical target prototype of the ITER divertor was developed by Japan’s QST and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Mitsubishi has passed all of the necessary qualification steps to begin...