Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

New Insights: Northern Europe’s Climate Cooling Trend Revealed

An international team that includes scientists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has published a reconstruction of the climate in northern Europe…

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NASA's TRMM Satellite sees heavy rainfall in Tropical Storm Daniel's center

When the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite passed over Tropical Storm Daniel on July 6, 2012 at 0034 UTC, data revealed heavy rain falling…

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Life's molecules could lie within reach of Mars Curiosity rover

The new findings, which suggest optimal depths and locations to probe for organic molecules like those that compose living organisms as we know them, could…

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Record-Breaking Drought Spans Across the U.S.

More of the United States is in moderate drought or worse than at any other time in the 12-year history of the U.S. Drought Monitor, officials from the…

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Satellite Research Shows Smaller Volcanoes May Cool Climate

Adam Bourassa, from the U of S Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies, led the research. He explains that until now it was thought that a massively…

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NASA Satellites Track Powerful Derecho Summer Storm

According to NOAA's Storm Prediction Center web site, a derecho (pronounced “deh-REY-cho”) is a widespread, long-lived wind storm that is associated with a…

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NASA Observes Tropical Storm Daniel’s Stunning Fireworks

The TRMM satellite got a very good look at recently formed Tropical Depression 4E (TD 4E) at 1040 UTC (6:40 a.m. EDT) on July 4, 2012. The hot towering…

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Arctic Warming: Sea Ice Loss and Global Warming Link

Professor Ian Simmonds from the University of Melbourne’s School of Earth Sciences co-authored the study and said the new information showed this combined…

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Atmospheric scientists release first "bottom-up" estimates of China's CO2 emissions

Atmospheric scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Nanjing University have produced the first “bottom-up” estimates of…

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New Insights into Earthquake Patterns from Karlsruhe Geophysicists

The link between tremor and earthquakes may provide clues about the more destructive earthquakes that occur at shallower depths. Geophysicists of Karlsruhe…

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TRMM Observes Post-Season South Pacific Cyclone 21P Activity

TRMM is the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite that is managed by NASA and the Japanese Space Agency, JAXA.The center of Tropical Depression 21P was…

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Newly Discovered Dinosaur Implies Greater Prevalence of Feathers

A new species of feathered dinosaur discovered in southern Germany is further changing the perception of how predatory dinosaurs looked. The fossil of…

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Mass Extinctions Reset the Long-Term Pace of Evolution

Scientists expected to see an evolutionary explosion immediately following a mass extinction, but Krug and Jablonski’s findings go far beyond that.“There’s…

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Curvy Mountain Belts: Impact of Collision and Erosion

The process of collision, uplift, and subsequent erosion of long mountain belts often produces profound global effects, including changes in regional and…

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New Method Assesses Seismic Risk by Including Social Factors

“When faced with the possibility of an earthquake, up until now the physical risk of the city has only ever been evaluated. This, in other words, means damage…

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Tropical Depression Dokuri: Weaker Yet Still Impactful

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Storm Dokuri on June 27 on 0435 UTC (12:35 a.m. EDT). Infrared data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)…

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