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We’ve collected images taken by astronauts and satellites from space of some of the most interesting islands on the planet.
Around 500 people live on Atafu Atoll, mostly in a village that can be seen on the corner in the left of the image above. Atafu is just five miles wide and is the smallest of three atolls in the Tokelau Islands, a New Zealand territory.
Atafu is made up of coral reefs that surrounded the flanks of a volcano that has since become inactive and submerged. Like many tropical atolls, Atafu is very low lying and vulnerable to sea-level rise. This photograph was taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station in January.
An island within an island was created after a big eruption around 9,000 years ago caused the peak of Onekotan’s volcano to collapse, forming a caldera that subsequently filled with water. The island inside the caldera is known as Krenitzyn Peak, which is the highest point on the island at around 4,300 feet.
Onekotan is in Russia’s Kuril Islands between Japan and the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The islands were formed by volcanic activity caused by the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate. Subduction can also generate some of the largest earthquakes on Earth, including a magnitude 9 here in 1952 which was followed a week later by Krenitzyn’s only historical eruption. This image was captured by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite on June 10, 2009.
The Galapagos Islands are the tops of volcanoes on the sea floor off the coast of South America along the equator. The volcanic activity that formed the islands is thought to be the result of a plume of hot mantle material rising from deep in the Earth’s interior.
The largest island, Isla Isabela, is made of the lava flows of six gently sloped shield volcanoes. The northernmost of Isabela’s volcanoes, at the top of the image above, is Wolf Volcano, which has erupted at least nine times since 1797. This image was taken by the Landsat 7 satellite in 2001.
The Maldives comprise 1,192 small coral islands adding up to just 115 square miles of territory. About 330,000 people live on the islands, the average elevation of which is a little more than 3 feet. It is probably the lowest country in the world.
This image of the North and South Malosmadulu Atolls was taken in 2002 by the ASTER instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite.
This glacier-covered Russian island is just 6 miles wide. Beneath the ice, the island is made up of 500-million-year-old volcanic rocks overlain by younger sedimentary rocks. This image was taken by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite on April 30, 2009.
The spectacular underwater formations to the west of Eleuthera Island are made of calcium carbonate sand that has been eroded off of coral reefs and deposited in dunes by ocean currents.
This 2002 image was captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Located in the middle of the Bahamas, Eleuthra Island is 110 miles long, and in places just over a mile wide. Around 8,000 people live there.
The most active volcano in Alaska’s Aleutian arc, Augustine Volcano’s biggest historical eruption occurred in 1883. It has been erupting for 40,000 years. This image, captured by The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on NASA ’s Terra satellite in April 2006, shows a steam or ash plume at the tail end of several months of explosive eruptions.
The three largest islands in this image, and many smaller ones, make up Indonesia’s Komodo National Park which was established in 1980 to protect the world’s largest lizard species, Komodo dragon. The total area of the park is 230 square miles. The islands are volcanoes caused by the collision of two tectonic plates. This image was captured by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite in 2000.
The Hawaiian Islands were formed by an upwelling plume of hot mantle material, called a hotspot. As the Pacific plate moved over the hotspot, it formed a chain of islands that first grew larger as they actively erupted, and then slowly eroded and sank below the surface of the ocean as the crust beneath them cooled.
Today, the hotspot is causing active volcanism on the Big Island of Hawaii. Kilauea Volcano has been erupting continuously since 1983. The rest of the islands, which get older from right to left, are Maui, Kahoolawe, Lanai, Molokai, Oahu, Kauai and Niihau. This image was captured by the MODIS instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite.
This small member of the Juan Fernandez Islands off the coast of Chile measures just under a mile across. But its 5,000 feet of elevation is high enough to reach the layer of stratocumulus clouds pictured above. The result is a type of flow known as a von Karmen vortex street. This striking, curly pattern of eddies can also be seen in clouds, and fluids or air moving past rounded objects such as an airplane wing. This image was taken by the Landsat 7 satellite in 1999.
Also known as Caroline Island, Millennium Island is made of coral reefs that grew around a volcano, which is now underwater, leaving behind a central lagoon. The maximum elevation of the island is less than 20 feet above sea level. In the past, the island has been inhabited and mined for guano, though today there are no people and it is among the world’s most pristine tropical islands. This image was taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station on July 1, 2009.
October is Swiss and alpine cheese month at Delifonseca. In the deli, there is 20 per cent off the price of Vacherin Mont D’Or, Reblochon, cave-matured Gruyère, Emmental, raclette and Tête De Moine. In the restaurant, the menu has been updated to reflect the offer, with a choice of four of the cheeses, served with olives, crackers and crostini, available as a main course or shared starter (both £11.95).
Panoramic restaurant has unveiled a new weekend lunch menu. Served from noon to 2.30pm, starters include red pepper, goat’s cheese and basil soup, and calf’s liver with pine nut dressing. Mains include sea bream with ratatouille, wild mushroom casserole, and veal with butter beans and smoked bacon. Dessert and coffee are also served. Three courses are priced at £17.50 on Saturday and £22.50 on Sunday.
Autumn at Chester Grosvenor means the return of its gourmet food and wine events. This month the hotel welcomes Planeta Wines, the first Sicilian company to receive a mark of excellence for its wine under Italian government guidelines. Canapés and an introductory talk about the wine will be followed by a five-course meal prepared by chef Simon Radley.
A man identified as Subli, 35, a worker at PT Riau Sakti United Plantations (RSUP) in Indragiri Hilir regency, Riau, was killed in a suspected crocodile attack while fishing in a canal at a coconut farm owned by the company.
Subli, who was a resident of Pulau Burung village in Pekanbaru, Riau, had decided to go fishing with his coworker, Agus Riyanto, on Wednesday afternoon. They traveled for an hour on a motorcycle to reach the fishing site.
At around 10 p.m., Subli left Agus to wash his hands in the canal, which was only 10 meters away, before eating his packed dinner. That was the last time Agus saw Subli.
“Not long afterward, Agus heard a noise, like something falling into the water – it was quite loud. Subli had disappeared,” Pulau Burung Police chief, First Insp. Erizal, told The Jakarta Post on Friday.
Agus then went to where he last saw Subli washing his hands. Using his torch, he inspected the water and reportedly saw air bubbles floating to the surface then moving from the edge of the water to the middle of the pond.
Fearing that a crocodile had attacked Subli, Agus rushed home and told an RSUP security guard about what had happened.
“The incident was then reported to the local security guards and the police,” Erizal said.
A group of residents and police and military personnel soon began searching for Subli, whose body was found the next day, some 3 kilometers from where he and Agus were fishing.
“After an autopsy was performed by the Teluk Belengkong community health center, the victim’s body was immediately transferred to the home of his siblings in Teluk Bakau village, Pengaliran district,” Erizal added.
Several crocodile attacks have occurred within the RSUP compound. In January last year, a freelance worker of the company identified as Tulus, 40, was attacked by a crocodile as he was resting at the edge of the same canal in which Subli disappeared.
His body was found a few hours later, 5 m away from where he was last seen.
Yesterday was gold in the field of so-called cultural appropriation. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who keeps peddling the lie that she’s a full-blown Native American.
Warren pushed this lie during her academic career, which was dredged up in 2012. Then-Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) was running for a full term in the U.S. Senate having won the special election to fill the vacancy left by the late Ted Kennedy. Warren won because it’s deep blue Massachusetts, but this issue has not gone away. President Trump has slammed Warren for continuing to sell this racial hoax, calling her “Pocahontas.” The evidence Warren gives to legitimize this claim is shoddy at best. She has high cheekbones or something.
Thus far, Warren has submitted no solid genetic evidence to suggest she’s actually Native American, though everyone knows that she isn’t. The Boston Globe has noted how this claim is problematic. Local papers have said she should take a DNA test, and even The Daily Show has highlighted Warren’s lies about her racial background.
Just found out that the The Hill is preparing a reaction story on Tweets about Elizabeth Warren as a way to fight back for her. They’re going to look at everyone’s Tweets as opposed to Warren’s false claims. Why don’t people trust media again?
So Elizabeth Warren is *possibly* 1/1024 (0.09%) Native American.
That'd make Warren even less Native American than the average European-American.
Two of the professors featured in Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D., Mass.) new campaign video about her Native American ancestry have also donated to the Massachusetts senator.
University of Texas-Austin Law School professor Jay Westbrook and Harvard Law School Professor Charles Fried both gave testimonials to Warren in the video and have donated $6,111 and $250 to her, respectively. Fried served as solicitor general under Republican President Ronald Reagan.
Warren released a video on Monday delving into her longtime claims of Native American ancestry and whether it had an effect on her hiring as a law professor at various schools in the 1980s and 1990s.
"Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong," said Chuck Hoskin Jr., the tribe's secretary of state.
"It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is proven."
Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat and possible 2020 presidential candidate, has been dogged in recent years by accusations that she may have exaggerated her claims of Native American heritage. Warren, who was raised in Oklahoma City, has said her connections to the Cherokee and Delaware tribes are part of family lore.
"A DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship," Hoskin said in the statement Monday, which was released by the tribe. "Current DNA tests do not even distinguish whether a person's ancestors were indigenous to North or South America.
"Sovereign tribal nations set their own legal requirements for citizenship, and while DNA tests can be used to determine lineage, such as paternity to an individual, it is not evidence for tribal affiliation."
1. Elizabeth Warren self-identified as a "Native American" in the The Association of American Law Schools Directory of law professors in every edition printed between 1986 -1995.
3. Warren was identified by Harvard Law as a “woman of color.” Harvard promoted Warren’s hire as expanding their campus diversity by hiring a woman with "minority background" onto their faculty.
10. It is very difficult to argue that Warren did not commit racial fraud. She used the advantages in the system to advance her career with no evidence (to this day) that she is actually Native American. Democrats defending her behavior on this point is dubious - at best.
And now we’re going to see liberals defend this—and it’s going to be hilarious. White people, who liberals hate, are now the final judges on who belongs to which racial group. Alas, identity politics has crashed into the wall, and that disfigured, charred, corpse that’s stuck in the driver’s seat is Liz Warren’s presidential ambitions.
Robert Mugabe: "They are even using gay gangsters on us"
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has accused the British Government of setting "gay gangsters" on him over his controversial land reforms.
In an interview with Zimbabwe's official newspaper, the Sunday Mail, Mr Mugabe said the Labour government was behind gay activists who ambushed his car outside a London hotel on 30 October.
The incident took place just outside the UK's intelligence headquarters and was witnessed by television crews.
The 75-year-old leader said Prime Minister Tony Blair's administration was using "gangster tactics", saying each time he passed through London there were people trailing him.
Mr Mugabe said the UK was against him because of his plans to grab commercial farms from British descendants for redistribution to poor black peasants.
He wants the farmers to be compensated with money from foreign donors.
"This is what has started the fight and the fight is still going on. They are even using gay gangsters on us."
He also attacked Mr Blair as a "little man", saying he refused to honour commitments made by previous Conservative governments to help fund Zimbabwe's land reforms.
"This government of little men, Blair and others, don't seem to understand, and when we talk to them they say they don't know about it.
"They say they were still at school or at college and don't know about the commitments made by the Conservative Party," said Mr Mugabe.
The outspoken president has previously referred to homosexuals as "lower than dogs and pigs".
UK police last week released on bail the three men arrested after the activists pounced on Mr Mugabe's car.
The three activists from gay pressure group Outrage, led by Peter Tatchell, had stopped the car and tried to carry out a citizens' arrest.
Outrage said its members had attempted to perform a citizen's arrest on Mr Mugabe for "homophobia and human rights abuses against the people of Zimbabwe".
The Zimbabwe government on Tuesday summoned the British high commissioner in Harare to complain about the incident.
WASHINGTON (AP) The Los Angeles Kings have traded forward Nate Thompson and a fifth-round pick to the Montreal Canadiens for a fourth-round pick.
Each pick is in the 2019 draft. The teams announced the trade Monday before the Kings faced the defending Stanley Cup champion Washington Capitals.
Thompson has four goals and two assists in 53 games for Los Angeles this season. He has won 53.3 percent of his faceoffs and ranks 34th in the NHL. The 34-year-old is a pending free agent who carries a $1.65 million salary-cap hit for the rest of the season.
The fourth-round pick the Kings got from the Canadiens is the Calgary Flames' selection. The fifth-round pick they sent to Montreal with Thompson is Arizona's selection.
A woman with a white scarf slung around her head is singing in Farsi. Her voice is soon joined by other women sitting around a wooden table. A colorful blanket hangs on the wall behind them, and a white door with green shutters opens up into a terrace filled with lush, green plants. Birds are chirping loudly in the background.
When we close our eyes, it’s hard to believe that we’re in a building in the centre of the Greek capital Athens. The contrast is stark to the refugee camps in or near the city, where thousands of people are living difficult and uncertain lives after European countries closed their borders.
Luckily, Greece is also filled with warm hearts and people who do their utmost to treat refugees with dignity and care.
Spread over two floors decorated with art and drawings, the organization Melissa offers a safe haven for women who are trying to make a new life in a foreign place. The organization is run by a network of migrant women providing workshops and courses for other migrant and refugee women. Their main goal is to empower them to take control over their own lives.
“Melissa means honey-bee in Greek. The whole point was to use it as a metaphor for migrant women coming to Greece from all over the world, bringing in stories of suffering and separation but also ideas, skills, talents and hopes for the future and all the things that they contribute to the weaving of the social fabric in this society”, said Nadina Christopoulou, a Greek anthropologist and one of the co-founders of Melissa. The idea emerged many years ago, after extensive fieldwork with migrant communities.
The official opening of Melissa Network’s day-centre in 2015 coincided with the escalation of the refugee situation in Europe.
“The immediate response was to become actively engaged in the humanitarian efforts”, Nadina said.
“When the borders closed, we realized that the refugees today would be our neighbors tomorrow”.
Now the centre offers an integration pathway consisting of literacy support, psychosocial support, information, and art and creativity activities, among other things. Everything is based on the idea of building trust and community.
“For us it was important not to deal with the notion of a refugee woman as a victim and as a passive recipient of services, but as an active agent of change”, Nadina said.
Recently Amnesty International held two workshops in Melissa. The aim was to discuss with women visiting the centre what makes them feel safe in a foreign country and how they can advocate for their own demands.
“We learned a lot from the women here and saw first-hand how empowering initiatives like Melissa can be. These women are not powerless victims, they have certainly suffered, but they have clear ideas about what they want and need. They are also not afraid to demand what they need if opportunity given.” said Irem Arf, Amnesty International researcher.
A woman who lived in one of the Elliniko camps in Athens before it was evacuated on June 2, told Amnesty that she took the bus to Melissa every day.
“I have many problems, but when I come to Melissa I feel much better”, she said.
Most women coming to Melissa live in refugee camps or other accommodation provided by the UNHCR and other organisations.
16 year old Marzia from Afghanistan regularly attends English classes at Melissa. Her eyes filled up with tears when talking about her eight months in the Elliniko camp.
“It was a very bad situation there,” she told Amnesty.
“At Melissa I feel very safe. I’m happy here, I pass the time with good people and I want to learn something”.
When Marzia spoke with Amnesty, she was living with her family in an apartment in Athens. Unlike many other refugees living in limbo in Greece, they have now been granted family reunification, so that they can go and live with Marzia’s brother in Sweden.
“We want to be together, all the family. My brother would also like to become a politician. We want to study together,” Marzia said.
Next to the stairs leading up to the second floor, women and children have made drawings of fish. The fish are filled with different quotes outlining the author’s hopes and wishes. A six year old boy wants to go to Germany to “buy everything there” and give it to his father and sister.
“There’s a lot of trauma that comes our way. People come with a lot that’s kept inside and because this is the first safe environment they find along the way, sometimes it breaks out,” Nadina said.
“We try to see it as a communal healing process and we try to all stand together and help one another in this”.
The majority of the people working at Melissa are migrants themselves, so they know only too well the anxiety and uncertainty most of the women are dealing with.
“They’ve coped with similar situations themselves. Empathy is their main tool,” Nadina said.
Nadina cannot emphasize enough how amazed she is by the women coming to Melissa.
“These women are exceptionally intelligent, composed and mature. They’ve been through so many difficulties, but they have so many ideas about their future. So many hopes, so many things to look forward to. We realize that these are opportunities they would never have had if they remained in their countries,” she said.
For Nadina, her favorite activity at Melissa is their weekly poetry workshop.
Last week, after the students had left a rural Pennsylvania school about 70 miles west of Scranton, DEA administrators and colleagues gathered there to remember a fallen agent, an alma mater of Hughesville High School, according to the Sun Gazette.
Chad Michael, 30, assigned to the DEA Miami Division, was one of three DEA agents killed in a helicopter crash in October 2009 in Afghanistan along with seven service men. The other DEA two agents were Michael Weston and Forrest N. Leamon. The men were targeting opium production in western Afghanistan.