LIVE ΕΙΔΟΜΕΝΗ-Live: Griechische Behörden räumen Flüchtlingscamp in Idomeni

Noch etwa 8.000 Menschen sollen sich im Flüchtlingscamp von Idomeni, in der Hoffnung auf Grenzöffnung, aufhalten. Heute haben die griechischen Behörden mit der Räumung des Camps begonnen und wollen diese binnen zehn Tagen vollzogen haben. Die Flüchtlinge und Migranten sollen in Flüchtlingsunterkünften untergebracht werden. Dazu sind 700 Sicherheitskräfte im Einsatz. Obwohl die Auflösung des Camps friedlich ablaufen soll, ist Journalisten der Zutritt ins Camp untersagt. Deshalb übertragen wir live von der Einfahrt ins Idomeni-Flüchtlingscamp, wo die Busse entlangfahren, die die Menschen in andere Unterkünfte bringen. 

Greek police on Tuesday started moving some of the 8,000 migrants and refugees stranded in a makeshift camp on the sealed northern border with Macedonia to state-run facilities further south.

Several busloads of people, most of them families with children, left the sprawling expanse of tents at Idomeni early on Tuesday and about a dozen more buses were lined up ready to take more, Reuters witnesses said.

At the latest tally, about 8,200 people were camped at Idomeni. At one point more than 12,000 lived there after several Balkan countries shut their borders in February, barring migrants and refugees from central and northern Europe.

Greek authorities said they planned to move individuals gradually to state-supervised facilities further south which currently have capacity of about 5,000 people. The operation is expected to last several days.

"The evacuation is progressing without any problem," said Giorgos Kyritsis, a government spokesman for the migrant crisis. People would be relocated "ideally by the end of the week," he said. "We haven't put a strict deadline on it."

Media on the Greek side of the border were kept at a distance. Inside the Idomeni camp, police in riot gear stood guard as people from the camp boarded the buses, footage by the state broadcaster ERT showed. Some 1,100 refugees and migrants had been relocated by noon, Greek police said.A Reuters witness on the Macedonian side of the border said there was a heavy police presence in the area but no problems were reported as people with young children packed up huge bags with their belongings.

A police official said about 1,000 people were blocking the sole railway tracks linking Greece and Macedonia. Protesters demanding passage to northern Europe have for weeks blocked the route, forcing trains to divert through Bulgaria to the east. Some goods wagons have been stranded on the tracks for weeks.

The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) urged Greece to refrain from using force during the transfer of the migrants and refugees.

"It's important that organised movements are voluntary, non-discriminatory and based on well-informed choices by the individuals," spokesman Adrian Edwards told a briefing in Geneva.

International charity Save the Children said it was concerned about a lack of basic services such as bathrooms and shelters in the official camps.

"Many of the children, especially lone children, have been through enough trauma already," said Amy Frost, team leader in Greece.

"Now that the evacuation has started, it is paramount that authorities make it a priority to keep families together, and to ensure that children are being transferred to facilities where they can live in conditions that meet European and international standards for child welfare," she said.

(Additional reporting by Angeliki Koutantou in ATHENS and Stephanie Nebehay in GENEVA; Writing by Michele Kambas and Karolina Tagaris; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)

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Drone video captures shark feeding frenzy from above

A drone from Eco Abrolhos Cruises captured a shark feeding frenzy in the perfectly named Shark Bay in Australia.

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A drone hovering over the waters of Western Australia caught sight of a literal blood bath.

The drone was operated by Eco Abrolhos Curises to follow two boatloads of tourists on an island cruise. It ended up capturing a feeding frenzy involving about 70 tiger sharks chomping on a dead humpback whale, the AFP reports.

The cruise company posted the video on its Facebook page, showing the pristine blue Australian waters turn a dark crimson.

"Passengers on our 14 day Geraldton to Broome and everywhere in between were treated to an unexpected phenomena whilst cruising inside Dirk Hartog Island. Something to show and tell the Grandchildren," the company wrote in a Facebookpost.

Several tourists wrote about their experience viewing the violent scene on the social media site.

"This was truly amazing to witness this act of nature. The drone and GoPro footagefar exceeded my videos and pictures. Thank you Jay and crew for taking us here to view this incredible feeding frenzy," Neil Edwards wrote.

Shark Bay, recognized as a World Heritage site, is known for being home to a diverse range of marine life from whales to dolphins to turtles.

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New Hubble Portrait of Mars

Hubble Space Telescope photo of Mars taken when the planet was 50 million miles from Earth on May 12, 2016.

Credits: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (ASU), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute)

Bright, frosty polar caps, and clouds above a vivid, rust-colored landscape reveal Mars as a dynamic seasonal planet in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope view taken on May 12, 2016, when Mars was 50 million miles from Earth. The Hubble image reveals details as small as 20 to 30 miles across.

The large, dark region at far right is Syrtis Major Planitia, one of the first features identified on the surface of the planet by seventeenth-century observers. Christiaan Huygens used this feature to measure the rotation rate of Mars. (A Martian day is about 24 hours and 37 minutes.) Today we know that Syrtis Major is an ancient, inactive shield volcano. Late-afternoon clouds surround its summit in this view.

A large oval feature to the south of Syrtis Major is the bright Hellas Planitia basin. About 1,100 miles across and nearly five miles deep, it was formed about 3.5 billion years ago by an asteroid impact.

The orange area in the center of the image is Arabia Terra, a vast upland region in northern Mars that covers about 2,800 miles. The landscape is densely cratered and heavily eroded, indicating that it could be among the oldest terrains on the planet. Dried river canyons (too small to be seen here) wind through the region and empty into the large northern lowlands.

South of Arabia Terra, running east to west along the equator, are the long dark features known as Sinus Sabaeus (to the east) and Sinus Meridiani (to the west). These darker regions are covered by dark bedrock and fine-grained sand deposits ground down from ancient lava flows and other volcanic features. These sand grains are coarser and less reflective than the fine dust that gives the brighter regions of Mars their ruddy appearance. Early Mars watchers first mapped these regions.

An extended blanket of clouds can be seen over the southern polar cap. The icy northern polar cap has receded to a comparatively small size because it is now late summer in the northern hemisphere. Hubble photographed a wispy afternoon lateral cloud extending for at least 1,000 miles at mid-northern latitudes. Early morning clouds and haze extend along the western limb.

Hubble's new Mars image indicating major features on the face of the planet.

Credits: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (ASU), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute)

This hemisphere of Mars contains landing sites for several NASA Mars surface robotic missions, including Viking 1 (1976), Mars Pathfinder (1997), and the still-operating Opportunity Mars rover. The landing sites of the Spirit and Curiosity Mars rovers are on the other side of the planet.

This observation was made just a few days before Mars opposition on May 22, when the sun and Mars will be on exact opposite sides of Earth, and when Mars will be at a distance of 47.4 million miles from Earth. On May 30, Mars will be the closest it has been to Earth in 11 years, at a distance of 46.8 million miles. Mars is especially photogenic during opposition because it can be seen fully illuminated by the sun as viewed from Earth.

The biennial close approaches between Mars and Earth are not all the same. Mars' orbit around the sun is markedly elliptical; the close approaches to Earth can range from 35 million to 63 million miles.

They occur because about every two years Earth's orbit catches up to Mars' orbit, aligning the sun, Earth, and Mars in a straight line, so that Mars and the sun are on "opposing" sides of Earth. This phenomenon is a result of the difference in orbital periods between Earth's orbit and Mars' orbit. While Earth takes the familiar 365 days to travel once around the sun, Mars takes 687 Earth days to make its trip around our star. As a result, Earth makes almost two full orbits in the time it takes Mars to make just one, resulting in the occurrence of Martian oppositions about every 26 months.

Supersized tsunamis once roiled an ocean on Mars, scientists say

Scientists say they've found evidence of two tsunamis that rocked northern Mars. (J. Alexis P. Rodriguez)

The findings, described in Thursday's edition of the journal Scientific Reports, bolster the idea that Mars once held an enormous ocean and depict a Red Planet that was far more dynamic than previously believed.

Mars may look dry and dead today, but it seems to have been much more Earth-like in the distant past, with a thick atmosphere and large bodies of standing water. Some evidence even suggests that our arid neighbor may have had a major ocean about 3.4 billion years ago.

That idea hasn’t been universally embraced, however. In part, that's because scientists haven’t been able to find a steady, continuous boundary in the terrain that would demarcate an ancient body of water.



“What a lot of people were doing in the past was to look for shorelines distributed along constant elevations, which is what we see here on Earth,” said study leader J. Alexis P. Rodriguez, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson.

Rodriguez took a different approach. Several years ago, he decided to look instead for signs of tsunamis, which could occur only if an ocean were present.

And he found them — in the form of several lobe-shaped deposits of debris in the northern part of the planet. These lobes had been spotted before, but their geological significance had remained unsettled.

Most of the time, these lobes of material indicate that water was pushing debris forward. Since water flows from high to low ground, the lobes usually point downward.

Strangely, these ones pointed up, against gravity’s pull.

Aside from tsunamis, “there’s not too many other processes that can form lobate, landward deposits,” said study co-author Virginia Gulick, a planetary scientist at the NASAAmes Research Center and the SETI Institute. “A tsunami deposit is like a flood deposit; it’s just in the reverse direction.”

Using data from three NASA spacecraft — the Mars Odysseythermal imager, cameras aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Mars Global Surveyor’s laser altimeter — the researchers were able to assemble a map of certain regions in the northern plains that allowed them to analyze how these strange shapes came to be.

They found that two massive tsunamis raged through the area, probably within a few million years of each other; the first washed over an area of about 800,000 square kilometers and the second swamped an area of roughly 1 million square kilometers.

The typical wave height as the water hit the shore would have likely been about 50 meters but, at various locations, could have ranged anywhere from 10 to 120 meters or so. That’s far taller than the 39-meter wave that hit Japan after the 9.0 Tohoku earthquake in 2011.

What could have caused such a massive wave? The scientists have a guess: a space-borne missile such as an asteroid or comet smashing into the planet. An impact capable of moving mountains of water would have left a crater at least 30 kilometers across — and the scientists on Rodriguez's team said they found about 23 such "marine impact craters" in the region near the debris lobes.

Of course, it’s just a hypothesis for the moment, because they can’t match a particular crater to one of the events. But their story makes sense, given that similar things have happened on Earth: The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago launched a massive tsunami as well.

“To see these types of events that we’re familiar with on Earth and to see similar features on Mars is really exciting,” said Lisa Ely, a geologist at Central Washington University who studies tsunamis on Earth and was not involved in the research. “There’s no reason to think Earth is the only dynamic planet out there.”

The findings also explain why scientists can’t seem to find continuous shorelines: The tsunamis buried them.

The two tsunamis also left very different marks on the Martian terrain, the researchers said. The first wave deposited loads of boulders in the lobes and gouged deep channels as the water washed back toward the ocean; these channels are also seen around marine impact craters on Earth.

The second occurred during a colder period in the planet's history and carried an ice-rich slurry past the shoreline. If there was life in this ancient ocean, those icy deposits left by the second tsunami might be a prime place to look, Rodriguez said.

NASA's 1997 Mars Pathfinder mission landed not too far from these lobes, he added, which means that future rovers looking for signs of life could potentially land safely near the tsunami scars.

Whether this evidence exists at all and survives to this day is another matter entirely, of course.

TV host forced to run for his life from massive tidal bore; video Read

Brazilian TV host suddenly realizes he’s about be swept away by a massive tidal bore and acts accordingly.

A longtime TV host of nature shows in Brazil was captured on video suddenly turning and running for his life when a massive tidal bore quickly advanced to where he was doing his best Moses impression, as Esquire aptly put it.

Richard Rasmussen, 36, a biologist and adventurer, is described as the Bear Grylls of Brazil, and during a segment of Lado B, he was explaining the phenomenon of a tidal bore, in this case the Pororoca on the Amazon River.

As the water rages towards him, the television personality finally realizes it might be a good idea to get out of the way of the sometimes deadly tidal bore. The result is hysterical footage of the barefooted adventurer avoiding disaster, or as the Daily Mail wrote, avoiding being drowned:

A tidal bore is a wave that is created by an incoming tide and moves up river. Some are bigger and more dangerous than others. The Qiantang River in China, for instance, takes several lives each year despite warning signs. People tend to take too much risk.

In this instance, Rasmussen was a bit too close for comfort and smartly ran away before being swept away.

“Corre Richard [run Richard],” the video said.

At least Rasmussen had the foresight to wear a life jacket.

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Giant Crack in Africa Will Create a New Ocean

By Live Science Staff | November 2, 2009 12:23pm ET






The rift in Afar, Ethiopia, that researchers say will eventually become a new ocean.Credit: University of Rochester

A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean eventually, researchers now confirm.

The crack, 20 feet wide in spots, opened in 2005 and some geologists believed then that it would spawn a new ocean. But that view was controversial, and the rift had not been well studied.

A new study involving an international team of scientists and reported in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds the processes creating the rift are nearly identical to what goes on at the bottom of oceans, further indication a sea is in the region's future.

The same rift activity is slowly parting the Red Sea, too.

Using newly gathered seismic data from 2005, researchers reconstructed the event to show the rift tore open along its entire 35-mile length in just days. Dabbahu, a volcano at the northern end of the rift, erupted first, then magma pushed up through the middle of the rift area and began "unzipping" the rift in both directions, the researchers explained in a statement today.

"We know that seafloor ridges are created by a similar intrusion of magma into a rift, but we never knew that a huge length of the ridge could break open at once like this," said Cindy Ebinger, professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester and co-author of the study.

The result shows that highly active volcanic boundaries along the edges of tectonic ocean plates may suddenly break apart in large sections, instead of in bits, as the leading theory held. And such sudden large-scale events on land pose a much more serious hazard to populations living near the rift than would several smaller events, Ebinger said.

"The whole point of this study is to learn whether what is happening in Ethiopia is like what is happening at the bottom of the ocean where it's almost impossible for us to go," says Ebinger. "We knew that if we could establish that, then Ethiopia would essentially be a unique and superb ocean-ridge laboratory for us. Because of the unprecedented cross-border collaboration behind this research, we now know that the answer is yes, it is analogous."

The African and Arabian plates meet in the remote Afar desert of Northern Ethiopia and have been spreading apart in a rifting process — at a speed of less than 1 inch per year — for the past 30 million years. This rifting formed the 186-mile Afar depression and the Red Sea. The thinking is that the Red Sea will eventually pour into the new sea in a million years or so. The new ocean would connect to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, an arm of the Arabian Sea between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Somalia in eastern Africa.

Atalay Ayele, professor at the Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, led the investigation, gathering seismic data with help from neighboring Eritrea and Ghebrebrhan Ogubazghi, professor at the Eritrea Institute of Technology, and from Yemen with the help of Jamal Sholan of the National Yemen Seismological Observatory Center.

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