Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

A Look Back and Ahead at Greenland's Changing Climate

A review paper by physical oceanographers Fiamma Straneo at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Patrick Heimbach at MIT published in Nature…

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Bremen’s Role in Sustainable Raw Materials and Engineering Education

Scientists at the BIBA – Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH and the University of Arturo Prat (UNAP) in Iquique, Chile are teaming up for a…

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NASA Sees Tropical Cyclone Edna Affecting New Caledonia

New Caledonia warnings were still in effect on February 5 as Edna continues moving along the southwestern part of the island. An Amber Alert was in effect for…

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NASA Sees Tropical Cyclone Edilson Leaving Mauritius

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument aboard Terra took a visible image of Edilson as its northwestern quadrant still covered the island…

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NASA Satellite Catches Australia's Newborn Tropical Storm Edna and Stubborn Fletcher

On February 3 at 15:53 UTC/10:53 a.m. EST, NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Queensland, Australia and the AIRS or Atmospheric Infrared Sounder instrument…

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Climate change threatens to cause trillions in damage to world's coastal regions

According to the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, global average storm surge damages could increase from about $10-$40…

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Unveiling the Mystery of Basalt Pillars: Troll Legends Explained

EARTH Magazine uncovers the truth behind the pillars in the February issue. Despite regional tales of a fight between a pair of angry trolls resulting in the…

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Raindrop Research Dials in Satellite Forecasting Accuracy

Patrick Gatlin says his work measuring the height and width of raindrops using ground instruments provides an accuracy baseline that is then scaled up to…

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NASA's Aqua satellite sees System 91S struggling

A false-colored infrared image was created at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. using infrared data from the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's…

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NASA Tracks Tropical Depression Kajiki Over Central Philippines

The Philippines have been battered by moderate to heavy rainfall over the last couple of months, and newborn Tropical Depression Kajiki, known locally in the…

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TRMM Satellite Sees Tropical Storm Dylan Make Landfall in Queensland

Tropical storm Dylan was heading from the Coral Sea toward Australia's Queensland coast when it was viewed by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)…

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Climate Study Projects Major Changes in Vegetation Distribution by 2100

Climate researchers have calculated that the spread of plant species in nearly half the world’s land areas could be affected by predicted global warming by the…

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Greenland’s fastest glacier reaches record speeds

Researchers from the University of Washington and the German Space Agency (DLR) measured the dramatic speeds of the fast-flowing glacier in 2012 and 2013. The…

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NASA Satellite Monitors System 91S in Mozambique Channel

At 800 UTC/3 a.m. EST, the center of System 91S was located near 18.2 south latitude and 39.1 east longitude, about 370 nautical miles northeast of Maputo,…

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Mysterious Baltic Ocean Circles Finally Explained

Since the first images of the mysterious ocean circles off the Baltic coast of Denmark were taken in 2008, people have tried to find an explanation. Now…

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Dinosaur fossils from China help Penn researchers describe new 'Titan'

The species, a plant-eating sauropod named Yongjinglong datangi, roamed during the Early Cretaceous period, more than 100 million years ago. This sauropod…

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