Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

Enhancing High Seas Protection: Insights from Marine Experts

In front of more than 40 leading international experts in marine environmental protection, Federal Minister of the Environment Peter Altmaier called for the…

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Natural Climate Swings Drive Increased Monsoon Rainfall

Monsoon rainfall in the Northern Hemisphere impacts about 60% of the World population in Southeast Asia, West Africa and North America. Given the possible…

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Voyager 1 Enters New Space Region Amid Cosmic Ray Changes

The heliosphere is a region of space dominated by the Sun and its wind of energetic particles, and which is thought to be enclosed, bubble-like, in the…

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Los Alamos Scientist Uncovers Martian Rock Secrets

When it comes to examining the surface of rocks on Mars with a high-powered laser, five is a magic number for Los Alamos National Laboratory postdoctoral…

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NASA Captures Fading Cyclone Tim Near Queensland

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of Cyclone Tim on March 18 at 0355 UTC (March 17 at…

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Ancient Tectonic Plate Under California Revealed

Large chunks of an ancient tectonic plate that slid under North America millions of years ago are still present under parts of central California and Mexico,…

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An oxygen-poor 'boring' ocean challenged evolution of early life

A research team led by biogeochemists at the University of California, Riverside has filled in a billion-year gap in our understanding of conditions in the…

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Ocean plankton sponge up nearly twice the carbon currently assumed

Models of carbon dioxide in the world's oceans need to be revised, according to new work by UC Irvine and other scientists published online Sunday in Nature…

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Earth's interior cycles contributor to long-term sea-level & climate change, scientists conclude

However, the article's authors, NYU's Michael Rampino and Carleton University's Andreas Prokoph, note that changes spurred by the earth's interior are gradual,…

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Significant contribution of Greenland's peripheral glaciers to sea-level rise

The discovery, just published in Geophysical Research Letters, is important as it will help scientists improve the predictions of the future contribution of…

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Antarctica's first whale skeleton found with 9 new deep-sea species

The research, involving the University of Southampton, Natural History Museum, British Antarctic Survey, National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and Oxford…

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UCLA & Harvard Experts Outline Governance for Geoengineering

That inherent tension, argue two professors from UCLA and Harvard, has thwarted both scientific advances and the development of an international framework for…

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New 5-Million-Year-Old Saber-Toothed Cat Discovered in Florida

The 5-million-year-old fossils belong to the same lineage as the famous Smilodon fatalis from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, a large, carnivorous apex…

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NASA Captures Tropical Cyclone Tim in Coral Sea

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Tropical Cyclone Tim in the Coral…

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New Insights into Water’s Atomic Structure Under Extreme Conditions

Liquid water remains a mystery even after decades of dedicated scientific investigations and researchers still struggle to fully describe its unusual structure…

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One of the world’s oldest sun dial dug up in Kings’ Valley

The team of the Egyptological Seminar under the direction of Prof. Susanne Bickel made the significant discovery while clearing the entrance to one of the…

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