A group of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research is flying to South Africa today. However this trip…
The shrinking lake and prolonged drought were initially blamed on overgrazing and bad agricultural practices. More recently, Lake Chad became an example of…
“It is surprising to have large, potentially complex fossils that far back,” said Christopher H. House, professor of geosciences, Penn State, and lead author.However, the researchers not only showed that these inclusions in the rocks were biological in origin, but also that they were likely planktonic autotrophs — free-floating, tiny ocean organisms that produce energy from their environment. …
Every 6.6 years, the comet Giacobini-Zinner circulates through the inner solar system and passes through the perihelion, the closest point to the Sun of its…
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of the temperatures in Tropical Storm Andrea’s…
System 91L is a tropical low pressure area that has been lingering in the northwestern Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico for several days. The low pressure…
The tiny, autonomous craft — some fly, others dart under the waves — can spy on hurricanes at close range without getting blown willy-nilly, while sensors…
It has also altered the pollution chemistry in the atmosphere, making the eye-stinging “organic nitrate” component of air pollution plummet, according to a new…
Bedmap2 is a significant improvement on the previous collection of Antarctic data—known as Bedmap—that was produced more than 10 years ago. The product was a…
Scientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but new research from a team of scientists led by a University of South Florida…
Tim LaRow, associate research scientist at COAPS, and his colleagues released their fifth annual Atlantic hurricane season forecast today. Hurricane season…
In the journal 'Geodiversitas', a research team led by the University of Valencia describes a new species of spiny shark (Acanthodii), a primitive type of fish…
A new respect is at hand, though – at least among scientists. New satellite data about the flow of salt through the world's oceans is providing the basis for…
This 43 second animation of NOAA's GOES-14 satellite observations from May 29 to 31, 2013, shows Barbara making landfall at the beginning of the animation, and…
By the end of the deglaciation, however, the oceans had adjusted to their new warmer state and the nitrogen cycle had stabilized – though it took several…
The findings, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, also hint at the possibility that hydrogen-dependent life could have existed where iron-rich igneous…
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