Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

Climate Change Effects Expected to Last Until 3000

New research indicates the impact of rising CO2 levels in the Earth's atmosphere will cause unstoppable effects to the climate for at least the next 1000…

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Bad Housekeeping: Dust in Earth’s Atmosphere Has Doubled Since the Start of the 20Th Century

It’s the first study to trace the fluctuation of a natural (not human-caused) aerosol around the globe over the course of a century. Mahowald used available…

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Seismic Hazard Assessment for Central-Eastern U.S.

Russell A. Green<http://www.cee.vt.edu/geot/index.php?do=view&content=0&apps=2&level=&id=&pid=e85c461d1d76520542b381b267c20fd1>…

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Sulphur’s Key Role in Gold Mine Formation Revealed

The findings were published in the December issue of Nature Geoscience.Robert Linnen, the Robert Hodder Chair in Economic Geology in Western's Department of…

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Freshwater Methane Release Changes Greenhouse Gas Equation

John Downing, an Iowa State University professor in the ecology, evolution and organismal biology department, is part of an international team that concluded…

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NOAA-led Research Team Takes Measure of the Variability of the Atmosphere’s Self-Cleaning Capacity

The issue has been controversial for many years, with some studies suggesting the self-cleaning power of the atmosphere is fragile and sensitive to…

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Methane Gas Concentrations Near Normal Levels Again

Findings from the research study, led by oceanographers John Kessler of Texas A&M and David Valentine of UCSB, were published today in Science Xpress, in…

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Breakthrough in Crystal Structure Prediction Supports Theory on Neptune&#039;s Interior Heat

Stony Brook University Professor of Geosciences and Physics, Artem Oganov, along with several colleagues, appears to have solved the long-standing mystery of…

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TRMM Satellite Captures Rainfall from System 98S Over Australia

NASA's TRMM satellite captured an image of System 98S' rainfall when it passed overhead in space on Dec. 30 at 1310 UTC (8:10 a.m. EST). TRMM is a joint…

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GOES-13 Satellite Sees Snowmaker Departing New England

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite called GOES-13 captured the visible image. GOES satellites are operated by the National Oceanic and…

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El Niño Insights: Climate Change Unveiled From 125,000 Years Ago

Fingerprints of marine and terrestrial organisms preserved in marine sediments off the Peruvian Pacific coast helped scientists to reconstruct the climate of…

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German-Indonesian Tsunami Warning System Marks Six Years Since Disaster

Six years after the tsunami disaster of 26/12/2004, the set-up of the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System for the Indian Ocean (GITEWS) has been…

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Ocean Acidification Alters Nitrogen Cycling in Global Seas

Increasing acidity in the sea's waters may fundamentally change how nitrogen is cycled in them, say marine scientists who published their findings in this…

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Global Rivers Emit Triple the Nitrous Oxide Estimates

What goes in must come out, a truism that now may be applied to global river networks.Human-caused nitrogen loading to river networks is a potentially…

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Scientists Uncover 3 Billion-Year-Old Genomic Fossils

About 580 million years ago, life on Earth began a rapid period of change called the Cambrian Explosion, a period defined by the birth of new life forms over…

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NASA Satellite Monitors System 91S Landfall in Australia

NASA's AIRS infrared instrument showed System 91S's center making landfall on Dec. 16 at 0647 UTC (1:47 a.m. EST) near the town of Carnavon in Western…

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