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Are the Alps growing or shrinking?
The Alps are growing just as quickly in height, as they are shrinking. This paradoxical result could be proven by a group of German and Swiss geoscientists. Due to glaciers and rivers about exactly th...
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Read moreA new wrinkle in ancient ocean chemistry
Scientists widely accept that around 2.4 billion years ago, the Earth's atmosphere underwent a dramatic change when oxygen levels rose sharply. Called the "Great Oxidation Event" (GOE),...
Earth Sciences | Read moreNew fossil finds as witnesses for fluctuations of Arctic sea ice cover during the past 30,000 years
They used a new research method. Based on fossilized algal remains in sediment cores, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association in collab...
Earth Sciences | Read moreNorth meets south? Glaciers move together in far-flung regions
Results of a new study add evidence that climate swings in the northern hemisphere over the past 12,000 years have been tightly linked to changes in the tropics.The findings, published this we...
Earth Sciences | Read moreDigging Deeper Below Antarctica's Lake Vida
Perpetually covered by more than 60 feet of ice, the brine below -- water that is five to seven times more salty than seawater -- has been found to be home to cryobiological microbes some 2,800 years ...
Earth Sciences | Read moreRecent Arctic Warming Reverses Millennia-long Cooling Trend
Warming from greenhouse gases has trumped the Arctic's millennia-long natural cooling cycle, suggests new research. Although the Arctic has been receiving less energy from the summer sun for the ...
Earth Sciences | Read moreUMBRELLA against heavy metals
"Please take" - as simple as following a recipe in a cook book, soils containing heavy metals could be remediated in the future: Depending on the kind of contamination and the conditions on ...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreSlowly slip-sliding faults don't cause earthquakes
Until now, geologists thought when the crack between two pieces of the Earth's crust was at a very gentle slope, there was no movement along that particular fault line."This study is...
Earth Sciences | Read moreGeoscientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute are back from an expedition to the Labrador Sea
Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute have researched the geology of the seabed in the Labrador Sea on board of the research vessel Maria S. Merian. They have studied the so-called Eiri...
Earth Sciences | Read moreAlaskan Earthquake 'to be Expected,' Says Researcher
The U.S. Geological Survey said an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 struck near the town of Willow at 11:30 a.m. The epicenter was 58 miles from the state's largest city, Anchorage, where the r...
Earth Sciences | Read moreArctic river deltas may hold clues to future global climate
The researchers' study was published in the May 19 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Sediments deposited in large river deltas around the world record information...
Earth Sciences | Read moreWest African droughts are the norm, not an anomaly
A new study of lake sediments in Ghana suggests that severe droughts lasting several decades, even centuries, were the norm in West Africa over the past 3,000 years.The earlier dry spells dwar...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreSolomon Islands earthquake sheds light on enhanced tsunami risk
On April 1, 2007, a tsunami-generating earthquake of magnitude 8.1 occurred East of Papua New Guinea off the coast of the Solomon Islands. The subsequent tsunami killed about 52 people, destroyed much...
Earth Sciences | Read moreSimulations and Ancient Magnetism Suggest Mantle Plumes May Bend Deep Beneath Earth's Crust
Scientists believe mantle plumes are responsible for some of the Earth's most dramatic geological features, such as the Hawaiian islands and Yellowstone National Park. Some plumes may have shallo...
Earth Sciences | Read moreCardiac fibrillation of the climate
In the current issue of the Scientific Journal Nature Geoscience a group of Norwegian, Swiss and German geoscientists prove that before the set-in of the Holocene very rapid climate changes already ex...
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