The demolition of five houses left hanging over a sheer drop following a landslip has been delayed after further earth movement.
Some of us can remember the public health and environmental catastrophes that propelled Earth Day, the Earth Day movement in the first place, the Cuyahoga River literally catching on fire from all the oil and dumped trash that was in it.
Also, over strong London coffees, Isaac Newton, Christopher Wren and philosopher Robert Hooke met to discuss the movement of Earth and Dr John Wilkins mooted, for the first time ever, the idea of flying to the moon.
About 100 million years ago, sea levels were about 300 metres higher than at present because of changes in the volume of ocean basins due to movement by the Earth's techtonic plates.
"The recent earthquakes in Manchester and Italy have highlighted our need to better understand the movement of the Earth's crust in England, " said Dr Matt King of Newcastle University's School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences.
But cracks are there in the earth and you see some evidence of movement.
"Any worldly event that involves the movement of mass affects the Earth's rotation, " Benjamin Fong Chao, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said while explaining the phenomenon in 2005.
Sometimes it appeared to be plummeting toward the earth, at others corkscrewing in a spiral movement, and at still others it looked to be just drifting.
The picture became inextricably linked to the environmental movement when it was adopted for the first Earth Day in 1970.
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.
The environmental movement was just beginning, and these photos made a lot of people see that, hey, the earth might actually need protecting.
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