Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

Hawaii’s Hurricane Future: New Study Insights

Now a study headed by a team of scientists at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, shows that Hawaii could see a…

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New Insights on Seafloor Lava and the Deep-Carbon Cycle

Elizabeth Cottrell, lead author and research geologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and Katherine Kelley at the University of Rhode…

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NASA Tracks Cyclone Zane’s Rainfall Impact on Queensland

Cyclone Zane, as of 12:00 UTC (10:00 p.m. Australian Eastern Standard Time or AEST) on May 1, 2013, was located about 215 km (~133 miles) due east of the coast…

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Studying meteorites may reveal Mars’ secrets of life

And although this team’s work is not specifically solving the mystery, it is laying the groundwork for future researchers to answer this age-old question.The…

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NASA Monitors Cyclone Zane Approaching Queensland’s Coast

A cyclone Warning is in effect for coastal areas from Mapoon to Cape York to Cape Flattery.NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Zane on May 1 at 04:05 UTC (12:05…

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What Happened to Dinosaurs' Predecessors After Earth's Largest Extinction 252 Million Years Ago?

Or did they?That thinking was based on fossil records from sites in South Africa and southwest Russia. It turns out, however, that scientists may have been…

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How Plants Help Mitigate Climate Warming Effects

The new study, published in Nature Geoscience, identified a negative feedback loop in which higher temperatures lead to an increase in concentrations of…

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Sea Surface Temperatures Reach Highest Level in 150 Years on Northeast Continental Shelf

These high sea surface temperatures (SSTs) are the latest in a trend of above average temperature seen during the spring and summer seasons, and part of a…

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Unveiling Environmental History Through 100 Million Laser Beams

By combining high-resolution surface data obtained from laser scanning with subsurface geodata, scientists from Heidelberg University have succeeded for the…

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AWI permafrost researchers start work in the new research station in the Russian Lena Delta

Permafrost experts of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research are currently conducting a multi-week spring expedition to…

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Unique Chemistry Reveals Eruption of Ancient Materials Once at Earth’s Surface

An international team of researchers, including Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, geochemist James Day, has found new evidence that material…

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Researchers Develop New Metric to Measure Destructive Potential of Hurricanes

Researchers at Florida State University have developed a new metric to measure seasonal Atlantic tropical cyclone activity that focuses on the size of storms…

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Dark Lightning Linked to Visible Lightning: New Findings

“Our results indicate that both these phenomena, dark and bright lightning, are intrinsic processes in the discharge of lightning,” said Nikolai Østgaard, who…

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Rethinking Early Atmospheric Oxygen: New Insights Unveiled

A research team of biogeochemists at the University of California, Riverside has provided a new view on the relationship between the earliest accumulation of…

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End of Global Cooling: Insights from 2,000 Years of Climate Data

The most comprehensive evaluation of temperature change on Earth’s continents over the past 1,000 to 2,000 years indicates that a long-term cooling…

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Predictable Asian Monsoon: Enhancing Water and Food Security

For much of Asia, the pace of life is tuned to rhythms of monsoons.The summer rainy season is especially important for securing the water and food supplies for…

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