Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

New Tree Ring Study Reveals 900-Year Climate History

An exactly dated time series of almost 900 year length was established, exhibiting the medieval warm period, the little ice age between the 16th and 19th…

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New Island Formation in Maldives Amid Rising Sea Levels

Islands like the Maldives are considered likely to be the first to feel the effects of climate change induced sea level rise, with future island growth…

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NASA Views a Transitioning Tropical-Storm Pabuk

On Sept. 26, 2013 at 03:55 UTC/Sept. 25 at 11:55 p.m. EDT, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite…

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Discover 200,000 Years of Environmental Change in Okinawa Trough

It is tesitfied that the continental shelf of the East China Sea was exposed and covered with the huge wetland and grassland ecosystems during the the last two…

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Warm Summers Linked to Reduced Flooding, Study Finds

This is the finding of a study supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and carried out by researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of…

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Late Cretaceous Period: Evidence of an Ice-Free Earth

For years, scientists have thought that a continental ice sheet formed during the Late Cretaceous Period more than 90 million years ago when the climate was…

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Arctic Sea Ice Minimum in 2013 is Sixth Lowest on Record

This year's sea ice extent is substantially higher than last year's record low minimum. On Sept.16, 2012, Arctic sea ice reached its smallest extent ever…

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TRMM Satellite Tracks System 98W Near Guam and Marianas

At 1700 UTC/1 p.m. EDT on Sept. 20, System 98W was centered about 16.2 north and 146.7 east, about 195 nautical miles north-northeast of Andersen Air Force…

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Tropical Depression Humberto Fizzling, Two Areas Developing

NOAA's GOES-East satellite provided a visible image of the Atlantic Ocean on Sept. 19 at 7:45 a.m. EDT that showed the three tropical systems. The image was…

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NASA Sees Heavy Rains and Hot Towers in Hurricane Manuel

TRMM noticed heavy rainfall and some hot towering thunderstorms, which were indications that the storm was intensifying. NASA's Aqua satellite captured an…

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Harnessing Geothermal Energy in Urban Tunnel Projects

When new tunnel structures are constructed in inner cities, this provides an excellent opportunity to also tap geothermal energy parallel to this and with…

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Long-Stressed Europa Likely Off-Kilter at One Time

This tilt could influence calculations of how much of Europa's history is recorded in its frozen shell, how much heat is generated by tides in its ocean, and…

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Stronger Winds Explain Puzzling Growth of Sea Ice in Antarctica

Despite warmer air and oceans, there's more sea ice in Antarctica now than in the 1970s – a fact often pounced on by global warming skeptics. The latest…

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NASA's TRMM satellite adds up Tropical Storm Manuel's amazing rainfall

Tropical storm Manuel may have dissipated, but the storm dropped very heavy rainfall along Mexico's Pacific coast where 21 people have been reported killed due…

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NASA's TRMM satellite animation gives flyby of Tropical Storm Ingrid's heavy rains

When NASA's TRMM satellite flew over Tropical Storm Ingrid on Sept. 16, it was drenching the Atlantic side in the Gulf of Mexico. On Sept. 16, Hurricane Ingrid…

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NASA's TRMM Satellite and HS3 Mission Checking out Tropical Storm Humberto

NASA's Global Hawk 871 departed from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. today, Sept. 17, at 10 a.m. EDT from Runway 04. This marked the…

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