Earth Sciences

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Polarstern Expedition: AUV’s Groundbreaking Arctic Exploration

The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association for the first time sent its Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) on an…

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Methane in Coastal Sediments: Climate Risk or Stability?

An international group of marine chemists, microbiologists and geologists coordinated by the marine chemist Gregor Rehder from the Leibniz Institute of Baltic…

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Converging weather patterns caused last winter's huge snows

The memory of last winter's blizzards may be fading in this summer's searing heat, but scientists studying them have detected a perfect storm of converging…

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NASA Satellite Improves Pollution Monitoring

The research team, led by Joseph Nigro of Science Systems and Applications, Inc., incorporated two NASA products into a computer program in BASINS (Better…

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Climate Change Feedbacks: Emissions Impact on Warming

Climate changes will also lead to increases in the emission of CO2 and methane from wetlands, nitrous oxides from soils, volatile organic compounds from…

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GOES-13 Captures Tropical Storm Bonnie Over South Florida

The visible image on July 23 at 1140 UTC (7:40 a.m.) EDT) from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite called GOES-13 satellite showed Tropical…

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Key Biogeochemical Feedbacks Impacting Climate Change Research

It is important to take into account these biogeochemical feedbacks in research on climate change, according to an international research group led by…

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NASA Integrates Final Instruments for Climate Satellite

The NPP satellite was a pre-cursor mission to the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) that has recently been…

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Extreme Archaeology: Divers Plumb Mysteries of Mayan Pools

This project, led by University of Illinois anthropology professor Lisa Lucero and funded by the National Geographic Society and an Arnold O. Beckman Award,…

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NASA Satellites Track System 97L’s Heavy Rainfall Threat

The National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla. predicted that conditions were favorable for formation of a tropical depression or tropical storm from System 97L…

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NASA Satellites Monitor Tropical Storm Chanthu’s Path to China

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite flew over Tropical storm Chanthu on July 20 at 1316 UTC (9:16 a.m. EDT) as it churned in the South…

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First-of-Its-Kind Map Details the Height of the Globe’s Forests

The map, based on data collected by NASA's ICESat, Terra, and Aqua satellites, should help scientists build an inventory of how much carbon the world’s forests…

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NASA’s Infrared Image Reveals Unique Features of Tropical Storm Chanthu

At 1500 UTC (11 a.m. EDT) on July 20, Tropical Storm Chanthu's maximum sustained winds were near 46 mph (40 knots). Chantu was located about 240 nautical miles…

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Deep-Sea Vents Discovered in Mid-Cayman Rise Expedition

The first expedition to search for deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Mid-Cayman Rise has turned up three distinct types of hydrothermal venting, reports an…

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NOAA Ship Fairweather Enhances Shipping Routes in Bering Sea

As Arctic ice recedes, countries are looking forward to faster, safer and more efficient sea routes across the top of the world. Responding to a request from…

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Mayan King’s Tomb Discovered in Guatemala

A well-preserved tomb of an ancient Mayan king has been discovered in Guatemala by a team of archaeologists led by Brown University’s Stephen Houston. The tomb…

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