Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

Land-Cover Changes Have No Effect on Glacier Loss, Study Finds

For the first time, the Innsbruck climate scientists quantitatively examined whether land-cover changes (LCC) may potentially affect glacier loss. “We used…

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Researchers Create New Way to Study Ground Fractures

The new technique developed in the Physical Acoustics Lab at Boise State may help determine if there is a fluid, such as magma or water, or natural gas inside…

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NASA Satellites Track Wind Shear Impact on Tropical Depression Iggy

NASA infrared satellite imagery showed that Iggy's strongest thunderstorms have been pushed away from the storm's center and visible imagery shows the storm is…

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Google Earth Enhances Ocean Terrain With Major Update

Scripps Institution of Oceanography / University of California, San Diego Internet information giant Google updated ocean data in its Google Earth application…

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NASA's GCPEX Mission: What We Don't Know about Snow

In the last ten years, scientists have shown that it is possible to detect falling snow and measure surface snowpack information from the vantage point of…

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NASA sees strong thunderstorms still surround Cyclone Iggy's center

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder Instrument called AIRS that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captures infrared data and basically takes the temperature of…

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New Study Sheds Light on Little Ice Age Mysteries

The study, led by the University of Colorado Boulder with co-authors at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and other organizations, suggests…

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Arctic Ecosystems Struggle Amid Rapid Climate Change Effects

Currently, the rate of climatic warming exceeds the rate of natural adaptation in arctic ecosystems. Furthermore, the Eskimo population is witnessing how their…

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Volcanic Activity Linked to Abrupt Little Ice Age Findings

According to the new study, the Little Ice began abruptly between 1275 and 1300 A.D., triggered by repeated, explosive volcanism and sustained by a self-…

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NASA’s AIRS Instrument Tracks Tropical Storm Iggy’s Growth

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument provided an infrared snapshot of Iggy's cloud top temperatures on January 26, 2012 at 0611 UTC (1:11 a.m….

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Detecting Coral Reef Change: Insights from Ocean Ecology

But Cousteau was right. During the following three-plus decades, Dustan, an ocean ecologist and biology professor at the University of Charleston in South…

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Life beyond Earth? Underwater caves in Bahamas could give clues, says Texas A&M marine expert

Tom Iliffe, professor of marine biology at the Texas A&M-Galveston campus, and graduate student Brett Gonzalez of Trabuco Canyon, Calif., examined three “blue…

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NASA Satellites Analyze Major Cyclone Funso’s Impact

Two instruments aboard NASA's Aqua satellite and instruments aboard NASA and JAXA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite provided cloud extent,…

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NASA Tracks Tropical Storm 09S Development in Indian Ocean

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Storm 09S on January 25 at 7:05 UTC (2:05 a.m. EST), and the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument measured…

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Injecting sulfate particles into stratosphere won't fully offset climate change

New University of Washington research demonstrates that one suggested method, injecting sulfate particles into the stratosphere, would likely achieve only part…

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Waiting for Death Valley's Big Bang: A Volcanic Explosion Crater May Have Future Potential

Up to now, geologists were vague on the age of the 600-foot-deep crater, which formed when a rising plume of magma hit a pocket of underground water, creating…

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