Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

New Insights on Flood Impacts in South England’s Solent Region

By using observations from real coastal floods and numerical models, researchers simulated coastal floods within the Solent region of the South of England to…

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NASA Monitors Cold Cloud Tops in New Tropical Storm Carlotta

NASA's Aqua satellite data showed that the cloud top temperatures in newborn Tropical Storm Carlotta became colder overnight and continue to grow colder as the…

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NASA Sees Typhoon Guchol in Stunning Satellite Imagery

NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Typhoon Guchol on June 13 and 14 and captured an infrared view of the storm's clouds and temperatures. The Atmospheric Infrared…

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Access granted – Geothermal Information System now in English

As a freely available information platform which went online in 2009, GeotIS provides access to comprehensive data relevant for geothermal project planning in…

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NASA's TRMM views forming tropical cyclone

Each of them has the potential for development into a tropical cyclone, although System 95E has a greater chance. That low was recently spotted by NASA's TRMM…

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Polarstern’s 27th Arctic Expedition: Insights from the Sea

44 expedition participants from institutions from Germany, Belgium, USA and the United Kingdom will spend around one month at sea. Their main study area is the…

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NASA Captures Tropical Storm Guchol in Near-Infrared Image

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Storm Guchol on June 12 at 0335 UTC and captured a near-infrared image of the storm from the Atmospheric Infrared…

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North-East Passage Set to Be Ice-Free This Summer

The North-East Passage, the sea route along the North coast of Russia, is expected to be free of ice early again this summer. The forecast was made by sea ice…

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The downstream consequences of depleting groundwater

The Water in the West program at Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment is focusing attention on how groundwater pumping can threaten rivers and…

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Humans Linked to Ocean Warming Over Last 50 Years

New research by a team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists and international collaborators shows that the observed ocean warming over the last…

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Impact Atlas Maps Over 635,000 Martian Craters

Really beat up, according to researchers who recently finished counting, outlining and cataloging a staggering 635,000 impact craters on Mars that are roughly…

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Volcanic Gases: A New Threat to the Ozone Layer

And, if it happened today, a similar explosive eruption could do the same, releasing more than twice the amount of ozone-depleting halogen gases currently in…

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Iceland Eruption Risks: Acidic Air Impact on Europe Revealed

Using computer simulations, researchers are investigating the likely atmospheric effects if a “flood lava” eruption took place in Iceland today. Flood lava…

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Unique Microbes Discovered in Extreme Volcanic Soils

A new DNA analysis of rocky soils in the martian-like landscape on some volcanoes in South America has revealed a handful of bacteria, fungi, and other…

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Exploring Life on Mars: Insights from ISS Research

Carried out by researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in conjunction with German planetary researchers at Wilhelm’s University in Muenster and…

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Undersea volcano gave off signals before eruption in 2011

The researchers' documentation of inflation of the undersea volcano from gradual magma intrusion over a period of years led to the long-term eruption forecast….

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