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Clean Energy & Climate Transition Just now (01:56 PM IST)

Pacific Northwest Fault Zone Raises Fresh Alarm Over Cascadia Megathrust Risk

New scientific reporting is renewing attention on the Cascadia Subduction Zone, where the Juan de Fuca Plate is slowly diving beneath North America and deforming the Pacific Northwest coastline. The concern is not immediate collapse, but the long-term accumulation of strain that could one day trigger a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami with consequences far beyond the region. For clean energy planners, coastal infrastructure operators and climate resilience officials, the warning underscores a harder truth: the energy transition is unfolding across a landscape where seismic risk, ports, transmission corridors and low-lying communities are tightly intertwined.

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Defence, Intelligence & AerospaceJust now (03:11 PM IST)

SpaceX Launches Classified U.S. Space Force Mission From California as West Coast Military Cadence Accelerates

SpaceX has launched a classified U.S. Space Force mission from California, underscoring the company’s growing role as the Pentagon’s preferred launch provider for sensitive national security payloads. The flight adds to a rapid cadence of West Coast military launches and reflects the expanding use of SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 fleet for both defense and strategic space infrastructure.

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Defence, Intelligence & Aerospace1h ago

SpaceX launches classified U.S. Space Force mission from California coast as West Coast military space tempo accelerates

SpaceX launched a classified Falcon 9 mission for the U.S. Space Force from Vandenberg Space Force Base on California's central coast, adding another high-security payload to a rapidly intensifying cadence of national security launches from the West Coast. The flight underscores how SpaceX has become a central launch provider for sensitive government missions, even as the details of the spacecraft and its objective remain undisclosed.

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Clean Energy & Climate Transition04 Oct 2026, 07:52 PM IST

Scientists Identify Two New Sea Spider Species in the Pacific Northwest, Reviving a Rare Marine Discovery

Researchers have identified two previously unknown sea spider species off the Pacific Northwest coast, including the first such discovery in nearly a century. The find adds a striking new chapter to marine biodiversity research and underscores how much of the ocean’s deep and cold-water ecosystems remains undocumented.

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Clean Energy & Climate Transition04 Oct 2026, 02:17 PM IST

Scientists Identify Two New Sea Spider Species in the Pacific Northwest

Marine biologists have identified two previously unknown sea spider species off the Pacific Northwest coast, ending a nearly century-long gap in discoveries of these unusual arthropods in North American waters. The find adds to scientific understanding of deep-sea biodiversity and underscores how much of the ocean’s fauna remains undocumented.

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Defence, Intelligence & AerospaceJust now (06:46 AM IST)

SpaceX Launches Mysterious U.S. Space Force Mission From California as Secretive Military Space Buildout Accelerates

SpaceX has launched another classified U.S. Space Force mission from California, underscoring the Pentagon’s growing reliance on the company for sensitive national-security payloads. The flight adds to a rapid cadence of West Coast launches tied to the military’s expanding orbital architecture, widely believed to include elements of the Starshield program.

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Clean Energy & Climate TransitionJust now (10:14 PM IST)

Pacific Northwest Fault Zone Shows New Signs of Strain as Cascadia Risk Reenters Focus

Scientists are reporting evidence that the crust beneath the Pacific Northwest is deforming in ways that sharpen concern over the long-dormant Cascadia Subduction Zone, one of North America’s most dangerous earthquake sources. The findings do not mean an imminent disaster, but they reinforce a stark reality for the West Coast: the region sits atop a fault system capable of producing a catastrophic quake and tsunami with little warning.

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Clean Energy & Climate Transition27 Oct 2026, 08:00 AM IST

Ancient DNA Rewrites Ice Age Europe’s Map of Human Movement

New genetic evidence indicates that Ice Age Europeans were far more mobile and interconnected than long assumed, with people moving across vast distances between eastern and western regions. The findings challenge the idea of a sharply divided continent during the Paleolithic and add to a growing body of research showing that early human populations maintained long-range social and biological links despite harsh climatic conditions.

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