Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

Earth's crust was unstable in the Archean eon and dripped down into the mantle

Earth’s mantle temperatures during the Archean eon, which commenced some 4 billion years ago, were significantly higher than they are today. According to…

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Greenland Ice Stores Liquid Water Year-Round

Researchers at the University of Utah have discovered a new aquifer in the Greenland Ice Sheet that holds liquid water all year long in the otherwise…

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Anticipating Earthquakes: Insights from Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula

The Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica is one of the few places where land sits atop the portion of a subduction zone where the Earth's greatest earthquakes take…

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NASA Monitors Heavy Rainfall in Tropical Cyclone Amara

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite can measure rainfall rates from space, and that's what it has been doing over Tropical Cyclone…

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NASA’s MODIS Captures Stunning Images of Tropical Cyclone Bruce

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument known as MODIS takes amazing visible and infrared images of tropical cyclones, among other things,…

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Understanding Earthquake and Avalanche Patterns Beyond Scales

Avalanches of snow or earthquakes can be described in other ways than the well-known Gutenberg-Richter scale, which gives a prediction of how likely a big…

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Diamonds in Earth's oldest zircons are nothing but laboratory contamination

As is well known, the Earth is about 4.6 billion years old. No rocks exist, however, that are older than about 3.8 billion years. A sedimentary rock section in…

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NASA catches Tropical Cyclone Amara's stretched out eye

Tropical Cyclone Amara is spinning in the Southern Indian Ocean along with Tropical Cyclone Bruce, and both share elongated shapes. Even Amara's 10…

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NASA’s Aqua Satellite Monitors Tropical Cyclone Bruce’s Growth

The MODIS or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured Tropical Cyclone Bruce's developing eye…

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Future Climate Impacts: Bridging Research Gaps Across Sectors

This interdisciplinary effort, employing extensive model inter-comparisons, allows research gaps to be identified, whilst producing the most robust possible…

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Climate Change Increases Water Scarcity Risk by 40%

Yet in addition to this, on the supply side, water resources will be affected by projected changes in rainfall and evaporation. Climate change due to unabated…

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NASA Unveils New Insights From Inside the Ozone Hole

More than 20 years after the Montreal Protocol agreement limited human emissions of ozone-depleting substances, satellites have monitored the area of the…

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Upper Rio Grande Water Supply Assessment Highlights Growing Gap

“This report uses the most current information and state of the art scientific methodology to project a range of future supply scenarios in the upper Rio…

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URI Scientists Investigating Life, Geologic Processes Deep Inside Earth as Part of Deep Carbon Observatory

Scientists at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography are shedding light on the genetic makeup of Earth’s deep microbial life and the…

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Ancient crater could hold clues about moon's mantle

Data from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper that flew aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter shows a diverse mineralogy in the subsurface of the giant South Pole…

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First Radiation Measurements From Mars Surface by SwRI Scientists

“Our measurements provide crucial information for human missions to Mars,” said Dr. Don Hassler, a Southwest Research Institute program director and RAD…

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