Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

Typhoon Melor and Tropical Storm Parma: Double Trouble Hits

There's double-trouble in the Western Pacific with one typhoon and one tropical storm bringing soaking rains, dangerous surf and gusty winds to two different…

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Sand Dunes Reveal Unexpected Dryness During Heavy Monsoon

But the sandy dunefields that mark the desert margin between greener pastures to the south and the Gobi Desert to the north are a rich source of information…

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Trackway Analysis Shows How Dinosaurs Coped with Slippery Slopes

The research, conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan, Argentina's Universidad de Buenos Aires, and the Iziko South African Museum in Cape Town,…

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New Coastland Map Enhances Sea Defense Strategies

According to the map, the sinking effect in the south could add between 10 and 33 per cent to the projected sea-level rises caused by global warming over the…

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Do Dust Particles Help Combat Climate Change? Insights from MPI-M

Two scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg (MPI-M) and the American National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report…

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Arctic Sea Ice Recovery in 2009: A Closer Look at Trends

According to the CU-Boulder center, the 2009 minimum sea ice extent was the third lowest since satellite record-keeping began in 1979. The past five years have…

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Arctic Sea Ice Extent Hits Third Lowest Mark This Year

Arctic sea ice reached its minimum extent around September 12, as shown in the image and video below/above. According to scientists affiliated with the…

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Climate Change Linked to Dwarfism in Ancient Soil Creatures

Ancient soil-inhabiting creatures decreased in body size by nearly half in response to a period of boosted carbon dioxide levels and higher temperatures,…

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How Will Future Sea-level Rise Linked to Climate Change Affect Coastal Areas?

“Our hypothesis is that the historic storm record, which extends back only about 150 years, isn’t a reliable indicator of true storm frequency, but the…

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Eurofleets Initiative: Advancing European Research Vessels

The project Eurofleets (European fleets) funded by the European Commission in the 7th Framework program was recently launched with a meeting of about 100…

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Tropical Storm Grace Forms Rapidly in Eastern Atlantic

Grace came together quickly and her winds were near 65 mph soon after formation. Very early this morning those sustained winds peaked at 70 mph, but fell back…

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NASA Satellites Capture Super Typhoon Melor’s Path

Typhoon Melor tracked through the channel between Saipan and Agrihan on Saturday night, and became a Super Typhoon on Sunday. Melor's winds dropped to 130 mph…

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Coal Mining Hazard Resembles Explosive Volcanic Eruption

New research by scientists at the University of Michigan and Peking University in Beijing, China, suggests that the outbursts occur through a process very…

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New ancient fungus finding suggests world's forests were wiped out in global catastrophe

The researchers behind the study, from Imperial College London and other universities in the UK, USA and The Netherlands, believe that the organisms were able…

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Coal-Mining Hazards: Insights From Volcanic Eruption Research

New research by scientists at the University of Michigan and Peking University in Beijing, China, suggests that the outbursts occur through a process very…

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Unlocking Seafloor Secrets: Future of Ocean Drilling

The scientific community envisions that this program will succeed the current Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), which ends in 2013. The outcome of the…

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