Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

Salt Seeds Clouds: Unraveling Amazon’s Atmospheric Mystery

As the sun rises, clouds appear and float across the forest canopy … but where do they come from? Water vapor needs soluble particles to condense on. Airborne…

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Excavations Reveal Egyptian Settlement in Ancient Jaffa

The Old Testament Studies and Biblical Archaeology division of the Faculty of Protestant Theology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the…

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Giant 'balloon of magma' inflates under Santorini

The growth of this 'balloon' of magma has seen the surface of the island rise 8-14 centimetres during this period, a team led by Oxford University scientists…

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South American Ice Field Melts Faster, New Research Reveals

The researchers from Cornell’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences developed a new way of using digital topography maps obtained from a stereo camera…

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NASA imagery reveals strength in Tropical Storm Michael's 'arm'

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured in infrared image of Tropical Storm Michael on Sept. 5 at…

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NASA sees fading post-Tropical Cyclone John's warmer cloud tops

When NASA's Aqua satellite flew over post-tropical storm John on Sept. 4 at 21:23 UTC (5:23 p.m. EDT) the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument…

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Tropical Storm Leslie Cools Ocean Waters in Atlantic

Tropical Storm Leslie has been on a slow track in the Atlantic, and because of that, the storm is kicking up cooler waters from below the ocean surface. Those…

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Glacial Thinning Accelerates in South American Icefields

A new study, however, finds that the rate of glacier thinning has increased by about half over the last dozen years in the Southern Patagonian Icefield,…

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New Insights on Dinosaur Extinction and Ammonite Fossils

Thomas Tobin clears sand from around the fossil of a giant ammonite he found in 2009 on James Ross Island in Antarctica.The well-known second event is believed…

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Water water everywhere

The work, published in the Pertanika Journal of Science and Technology, suggests which factors should be taken into account before drilling for industrial and…

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Tropical Storm Michael Faces Struggles Like Leslie and Isaac

Leslie has been a tropical storm since late Aug. and has not yet reached hurricane strength because of wind shear, although that is expected to change. Isaac's…

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NASA Satellites Capture Tropical Storm Leslie’s Stability

Two visible images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument that flies onboard both of NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites…

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NASA Tracks Brief Life of Tropical Depression John

NASA's Aqua satellite flew over John on Sept. 3 at 2041 UTC (4:41 p.m. EDT) during its brief time as a tropical storm and noticed convection (rising air that…

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More CO2 Means Fewer Clouds: New Research Insights

The warmer the air, the more water can evaporate: a simple relationship familiar to us from everyday life. Researchers from Germany and the Netherlands have…

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Warm Earth: How Climate Affects Biodiversity Evolution

But the research says that the increase in biodiversity depends on the evolution of new species over millions of years, and is normally accompanied by…

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Salt in Rainforest: How Fungi and Plants Create Clouds

In the ecosystem of the rainforest, fungi and plants are important contributors to the development of mist and clouds. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute…

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