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Last night, the northern lights, or aurora borealis, made a stunning appearance in the skies over Bulgaria. A powerful solar flare triggered this extraordinary display, filling the atmosphere with vibrant shades of red, pink, blue, and green.

Evangelos Mytilineos, head of metals and energy group Metlen, has asked the EU to make certain European companies get access to rare earth metals.

"China continues to restrict exports of metals and rare earths… unfortunately the EU has not specified measures" to do so, despite its legislation on critical primary materials passed in May, Mytilineos said in a LinkedIn post.

In 2023, the world's oceans took up an enormous amount of excess heat, enough to "boil away billions of Olympic-sized swimming pools," according to an annual report published Thursday.

Here in the 21st Century, we may have some ice and dry land, but our planet is still an ocean world with plenty of secrets hidden in its murky depths

Beneath the Earth's surface, buried deep within the mantle, lies a long-standing enigma that might hold the key to unraveling the ancient secrets of our Moon's birth. For over half a century, seismologists have been tracking two massive, continent-sized anomalies concealed beneath Africa and the South Pacific region.

The enchanting premises of The Foundry Suites Athens come alive with the immersive group exhibition "Transformations: Gaia & Chthonia," which sets out to capture the duality inherent in the building, the dance between its natural and industrial components.

The government sees opportunities to exploit domestic deposits of rare earths and critical raw materials after restrictions announced by China on exports of gallium and germanium, which are essential raw materials for the manufacture of semiconductors.

The minimum temperatures today will be between 11 and 16 degrees Celsius, and the maximum will be within wide limits - from 16°C in northwestern Bulgaria to 26°C in the southeastern regions of the country, where it will be mostly sunny. A light north-westerly wind will blow.

An asteroid large enough to destroy a city has passed between the orbits of the Earth and the Moon, missing both.

The object, named 2023 DZ2, was discovered a month ago.

As predicted by scientists, it passed within 175,000km of the Earth on March 25 after flying past the Moon, BBC News has reported.

Death toll rises to 20 in the flood disaster that hit the southern provinces, as the body of a child who went missing was found hours after the body of her mother was reached on March 20.

During the heavy rain that started late March 14 in the Adıyaman's Tut district that was also devastated by the Feb. 6 earthquakes, Ömerovası Stream overflowed.