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Volatile Gas Could Turn Rwandan Lake into a Freshwater Time Bomb
A dangerous level of carbon dioxide and methane gas haunts Lake Kivu, the freshwater lake system bordering Rwanda and the Republic of Congo.Scientists can’t say for sure if the volatile mixtur...
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Read moreRice U. lab leads hunt for new zeolites
In all the world, there are about 200 types of zeolite, a compound of silicon, aluminum and oxygen that gives civilization such things as laundry detergent, kitty litter and gasoline. But thanks to co...
Life Sciences | Read moreFortuitous Research Provides First Detailed Documentation of Tsunami Erosion
Now, for the first time, a group of scientists working in the Kuril Islands off the east coast of Russia has documented the scope of tsunami-caused erosion and found that a wave can carry away far mor...
Earth Sciences | Read moreVolcanoes Played Pivotal Role in Ancient Ice Age, Mass Extinction
Perhaps ironically, these volcanoes first caused global warming -- by releasing massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.When they stopped erupting, Earth’s climate was thrown off...
Earth Sciences | Read moreGiant Impact Near India--Not Mexico--May Have Doomed Dinosaurs
Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University and a team of researchers took a close look at the massive Shiva basin, a submerged depression west of India that is intensely mined for its oil and gas reso...
Earth Sciences | Read moreScientists measure the rate of ascent of volcanic magma
Volcanoes that tend to show this kind of behaviour include Mount Vesuvius in Italy, Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines and Mt. St. Helens in the USA. Professor Donald Dingwell of Ludwig-Maximilians-Unive...
Earth Sciences | Read moreEarly hominid first walked on two legs in the woods
This species was not a savanna species like Darwin proposed,” said University of Illinois anthropology professor Stanley Ambrose, a co-author of two of 11 studies published this week in Science on the...
Earth Sciences | Read more"Rosetta Stone" of supervolcanoes discovered in Italian Alps
A fossil supervolcano has been discovered in the Italian Alps' Sesia Valley by a team led by James E. Quick, a geology professor at Southern Methodist University. The discovery will advance scien...
Earth Sciences | Read moreHumans causing erosion comparable to world’s largest rivers and glaciers
Published online in the journal Nature Geoscience, the research offers stark evidence of how humans are reshaping the planet. It also finds that - contrary to previous scholarship - rivers are as powe...
Earth Sciences | Read moreHas northern-hemisphere pollution affected Australian rainfall?
Main sponsors:World Climate Research ProgrammeInternational Geosphere Biosphere ProgrammeMonash UniversityNew research announced at the international Water in a changing climat...
Earth Sciences | Read moreFlexible Soil Model Maps Remote Areas
Bruce Frazier and Richard Rupp of Washington State University and Toby Rodgers and Crystal Briggs of Soil Survey conducted this work in the Pasayten River watershed in north-central Washington. Their ...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreResearchers to study rebirth of an island after volcanic eruption
The eruption covered the small Aleutian island with a layer of ash and other volcanic material several meters thick. It also provided a rare research opportunity: the chance to see how an ecosystem de...
Earth Sciences | Read moreTremors on southern San Andreas Fault may mean increased earthquake risk
Increases in mysterious underground tremors observed in several active earthquake fault zones around the world could signal a build-up of stress at locked segments of the faults and presumably an incr...
Earth Sciences | Read morePlants save the earth from an icy doom
Researchers at Yale University, the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the University of Sheffield now show that land plants saved the Earth from a deep frozen fate by buffering the removal of atm...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreSudden collapse in ancient biodiversity: Was global warming the culprit?
Scientists have unearthed striking evidence for a sudden ancient collapse in plant biodiversity. A trove of 200 million-year-old fossil leaves collected in East Greenland tells the story, carrying its...
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