• The only thing moving was the earth, in constant aftershocks.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • If the signature of an element is found at a wavelength that is slightly to the blue side of what experiments in a laboratory show, this means the star is moving towards the earth, making the wavelength of the light it was emitting slightly shorter.

    ECONOMIST: Stellar origins

  • On Friday, Phobos-Grunt was moving around the Earth at an altitude that varied between 177km (perigee) and 224km (apogee).

    BBC: Video tracks stricken Mars probe

  • Because the universe is expanding, most galaxies are moving away from the Earth.

    ECONOMIST: Astronomy

  • But some businesses are cashing in on the plague: contractors have tripled the rental for earth-moving equipment needed to bury the dead pigs.

    CNN: ON DEADLY GROUND

  • Because they are moving with respect to the Earth as well as to each other, observations of their movement over the next few years should prove beyond question that they are indeed the first partnered pair of black holes.

    BBC: Dancing black hole twins spotted

  • As the universe expands, light from galaxies moving away from Earth appears shifted toward the longer (and hence redder) wavelengths of the spectrum.

    ECONOMIST: Sun Microsystems

  • Dr Bilham says that the Indian government has even forbidden him to use a gravity meter in the region (such a meter measures whether a point is moving away from the centre of the earth, and therefore indicates a build up of strain that might be released as an earthquake).

    ECONOMIST: Earthquakes in India

  • For now, the workers labour in a cloud of red dust, stirred up by the earth-moving equipment.

    BBC: Villagers despair in Hungary's red wasteland

  • The earth-moving equipment kicked in only minutes after President Obama signed the economic stimulus bill his administration pushed through Congress 11 months ago.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The deep circulation of the oceans controls the weather and climate of the earth by moving heat, generating storms and controlling rainfall and droughts.

    UNESCO: Natural Sciences

  • But the earth is moving at over 67, 000 miles per hour.

    FORBES: Why I Named My Dog After Neil Armstrong

  • The Army Corps of Engineers was engaged to build the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, in what was then the largest earth moving effort in North American history.

    FORBES: Currents Of The U.S. Economy Run In Chicago River's Twisted History

  • Mr Collier wiped away tears as he described how he had completed some earth moving at the site in Ffordd Penrhwylfa when he saw the five-foot wall collapse as Meg walked past.

    BBC: Meg Burgess wall death: Don't seek revenge, jury urged

  • Although, this path is only apparent since the Earth is also moving and the Time spent by the stone to reach the ground has also changed to some degree that imaginary vertical line.

    FORBES: Colliding Galaxies Provide A Glimpse Into Our Future

  • Eyjafjallajokull, in Iceland, which erupted in April, stopping commercial flights over the Atlantic and Europe for a week, is at a junction where the plates are growing and moving apart, as magma wells up from deep in the Earth.

    ECONOMIST: A capricious volcano, but fears ease of another Pompeii

  • The Illinois-based manufacturer of mining and earth moving equipment reported third quarter earnings that blew past Wall Street estimates, and the company also raised its full year guidance, sending shares up more than 5% this morning.

    FORBES: Caterpillar "Bulldozes" Earnings, Global Growth Still On

  • Meanwhile, even the mines in Hpakant in Myanmar have seen more mechanization in recent years, with earth-moving machines replacing many human workers, though the site overall remains unruly.

    WSJ: Secret Rocks and Gem Hunters | WSJ.Money Summer 2013

  • Plate tectonics, the formation of faults and the moving of the continental crust over a molten interior, is a characteristic unique to Earth and it meant that minerals evolved far beyond those on any other planet in the Solar System.

    ECONOMIST: Minerals

  • "When they actually come onto a site with large, earth-moving equipment about, disrupting the actual, lawful business, they're getting in the way of that, " Mr Bolton said.

    BBC: Coal mine protesters face eviction at The Wrekin

  • With China only having 75% of their roads paved, there will be years of more construction work and earth moving going on, according to the U.S. China Business Council in Washington.

    FORBES: China Hard Landing Call Getting Crowded Out

  • For GPS, this is an enormous issue because it turns out that the clocks on the satellites drift by almost 40, 000 nanoseconds per day relative to the clocks on the ground because they are high above the earth's surface (and therefore in a weaker gravitational field) and are moving fast relative to the ground.

    BBC: Meet the world's director of time

  • "Its excellent news, that taxonomic expertise is moving very effectively to tropical countries where most of the biodiversity on Earth is, " she said.

    BBC: News

  • That's because as the Earth moves around the Sun, it is moving into a stationary field of dark matter - and for half the year it will be moving against the tide of dark matter - just like driving into the rain.

    BBC: Dark Matter: Experiment to shed light on dark particles

  • While it is technically possible to convert sunlight into electricity anywhere, it costs far less to do so in areas that receive the most powerful forms of sunlight--sunlight that loses the least amount of radiant energy while moving from space to earth.

    FORBES: The Saudi Arabia Of Solar Energy

  • In the U.S., Sany has signed up 12 dealers for excavators, mostly in the Northeast, and sold a negligible number of earth-moving machines.

    WSJ: China's Sany Tries to Gain Traction in the U.S.

  • It even crops up in Islamic mystical tradition in the concept of Tay al-Ard, or "the folding up of the earth, " whereby a person is, without actually moving, miraculously transported to a far-off destination by the world spinning very rapidly beneath their feet.

    CNN: Beam me up: Just how close are we to teleportation?

  • This gives the course an unfinished, old school feel, from a time when earth moving equipment did not exist, but it is finished and quite ready for prime time.

    FORBES: Pinehurst's Best Kept Secret -- Play It While You Can!

  • And it turns out that when the Earth is close to and zipping by the sun, when we are moving fastest in our annual orbit, that's the time of year we in the Northern Hemisphere call fall and winter.

    NPR: Not All Seasons Are Created Equal

  • When the cosmic rays and gamma rays smash into molecules in the Earth's atmosphere, they set off a cascade of other fast-moving particles.

    BBC: Hawc gamma-ray telescope captures its first image

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