Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

Danny the 'degenerate' followed by 2 lows

Satellite data from NOAA's GOES-East satellite at 14:45 UTC (10:45 a.m. EDT) on August 24, showed Danny had become stretched out into a trough of low pressure.

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Self-Healing Landscapes: Insights on Earthquake-Landslide Recovery

These new findings are presented by a German-Franco-Japanese team of geoscientists in the current issue of the journal Geology, under the lead of the GFZ…

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Disruptive Space Weather Threatens Equatorial Regions, Study Reveals

Extreme space weather has long been seen as a threat to electrical grids in high-latitude regions of the northern and southern hemispheres. A new study finds…

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S’No Water in Sierra Nevadas

Most of us have strong opinions about snow during the winter. For some, it’s a curse. Others enjoy the recreation heavy snowfall brings. Yet, once warmer…

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Comprehensive Microplastic Survey Begins in Baltic Sea

The POSEIDON, a research vessel of the ocean research institute GEOMAR in Kiel, started its expedition in Rostock and will cruise along the coast to circle the…

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Addressing Forest Health Amid Global Change Challenges

Since pre-industrial times, the area of forest has shrunk nearly 15%. It is currently decreasing at a rate of about 0.3% per year (an area equivalent to…

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As Ice Age ended, greenhouse gas rise was lead factor in melting of Earth's glaciers

A fresh look at some old rocks has solved a crucial mystery of the last Ice Age, yielding an important new finding that connects to the global retreat of…

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Two views of Super Typhoon Atsani from NASA's Aqua Satellite

On August 18 at 03:37 UTC (11:37 p.m. EDT, Aug. 17) the AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite gathered infrared data on Atsani. In a false-colored image…

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Future Water Shortages: Central Andes Precipitation Decline

The population in the Central Andes already faces water shortages today. Now geographers at the University of Zurich have collaborated with Swiss and South…

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Substantial glacier ice loss in Central Asia’s largest mountain range

An international research team led by the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences and including the institute of the French Centre National de la Recherche…

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Meteorite Impacts May Create DNA Building Blocks in Oceans

With precise analysis of the products recovered after impacts, the team found the formation of nucleobases and amino acids from inorganic compounds. The…

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NASA's Terra Satellite sees powerful storms ring Typhoon Atsani's eye

Typhoon Atsani formed on August 14 as Tropical Depression 17W. By 2100 UTC (5 p.m. EDT) that day, 17W strengthened into a tropical depression was named Atsani….

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Most comprehensive projections for West Antarctica’s future revealed

“The IPCC’s [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] 4th and 5th Assessment Reports both note that the acceleration of West Antarctic ice streams in…

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Frequent Volcanic Eruptions Linked to Ocean Cooling Trends

The research reported today by the Past Global Changes' (PAGES) Ocean2K Working Group in Nature Geoscience indicated that it was likely an increase in the…

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Autonomous Multicopter Navigates Arctic Challenges Successfully

How do you successfully pilot a remote-controlled helicopter in the remote expanses of the Arctic Ocean when the compass can’t provide reliable positioning…

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How Stream Size Affects CO2 Emissions: New Research Insights

Now, researchers have shown that the greenhouse gas appears in streams by way of two different sources — either as a direct pipeline for groundwater and…

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