Earth Sciences

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Carbon Sequestration: Exploring Its Benefits and Challenges

For example, the European Union plans to invest billions of Euros within the next ten years to develop carbon capture and storage whereby CO2 will be extracted…

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Mercury’s Ocean Danger: Insights from Duke University Researchers

The answer, according to Duke University researchers, is in the seawater itself.The potentially harmful version of mercury – known as methylmercury — latches…

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NASA’s Infrared Data Predicts Hurricane Darby’s Path

When NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Darby on June 24 at 08:23 UTC (4:23 a.m. EDT), the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument onboard the satellite…

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Celia Hits Major Leagues: Insights from GOES Satellite Images

Both Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites, GOES-11 (west) and GOES-13 (east) captured visible images of Hurricane Celia and Tropical Storm Darby…

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Tiny Clays Reduce Earthquake Impact with Smooth Creep

The relatively smooth movement, called creep, happens because the fault creates its own lubricants—slippery clays that form ultra-thin coatings on rock…

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Arctic Sea Ice Fails to Recover: Insights from 2010 Research

A critical minimum for Arctic sea ice can also be expected for late summer 2010. Scientists from the German “Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine…

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NASA's infrared satellite imagery sees Tropical Storm Darby form quickly

Darby formed off the western Mexico coast south of the Gulf of Tehuantepec. At 5 p.m. EDT on June 22 Darby was located about 540 miles south-southeast of…

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First Five Months of 2010 Second Warmest on Record

First five months of 2010 second warmest on recordGlobal climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decadeMay temperatures (preliminary)Global composite…

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NASA Satellites Capture Hurricane Celia’s Rapid Strengthening

Celia's maximum sustained winds were up to 100 mph at 11 a.m. EDT on June 23. That's a jump from the 80 mph maximum sustained winds it had just six hours…

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American team of scientists help protect Guatemala's Lake Atitlan

A team of scientists from the University of Nevada, Reno, DRI, Arizona State University and University of California, Davis has returned from a two-week…

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NASA's TRMM satellite sees Hurricane Celia's moderate rainfall

At 5 a.m. EDT on June 22, Hurricane Celia had maximum sustained winds near 105 miles per hour. That makes Celia a category two storm on the Saffir-Simpson…

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Geodynamics Insights: Deformation Bands in Eisenstadt Gravel

Deformation bands in the gravel layers of the Eisenstadt-Sopron Basin form as a result of heterogeneous displacement in the surrounding sediment. This is…

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NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites view Tropical Storms Blas and Celia

On June 19 at 17:30 UTC (1:30 p.m. EDT) the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite captured a visible image…

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Caltech Geologist Studies Rapid Canyon Formation in Texas Flood

In the summer of 2002, a week of heavy rains in Central Texas caused Canyon Lake—the reservoir of the Canyon Dam—to flood over its spillway and down the…

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New research sheds light on Antarctica's melting Pine Island Glacier

Thinning ice in West Antarctica is currently contributing nearly 10 per cent of global sea level rise and scientists have identified Pine Island Glacier (PIG)…

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NASA Monitors System 94L Development Over Lesser Antilles

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite known as GOES-13 captured a visible image of System 94L over the Lesser Antilles on June 18 at 11:45 UTC…

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