Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

New Method to Monitor Faults Could Predict Earthquakes

Paul Silver* and Taka'aki Taira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, with Fenglin Niu of Rice University and Robert Nadeau of the…

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San Andreas Fault Impacted by 2004 Sumatran Earthquake

U.S. seismologists have found evidence that the massive 2004 earthquake that triggered killer tsunamis throughout the Indian Ocean weakened at least a portion…

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Come Together, Right Now … Tropical Depression 18W Dissipates, Parma Intensifies

NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the two storms and captured them in one image (because they're close to each other). Parma is located west of 18W's remnants….

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Storm Killers: LSU’s Earth Scan Lab Tracks Cold Water Upwellings in Gulf

Complex interactions between the ocean and overlying atmosphere cause hurricanes to form, and also have a tremendous amount of influence on the path, intensity…

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Mystery Solved: Marine Microbe Is Source of Rare Nutrient

Roughly a decade ago scientists discovered a rare form of organic phosphorus in marine organic matter. Not only were the researchers surprised to find this…

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New Network to Examine the Power of Aerosols

They’re called aerosols, miniscule particles and droplets that float in the global atmosphere. And they’re the focus of a new national research network that…

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Glacier Movements: Linking Climate Changes Across Hemispheres

Results of a new study add evidence that climate swings in the northern hemisphere over the past 12,000 years have been tightly linked to changes in the…

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Peruvian Glacial Retreats Tied to Little Ice Age Events

The study, published this week in the journal Science, “brings us one step closer to understanding global-scale patterns of glacier activity and climate during…

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Lasers From Space Reveal Thinning Ice Sheets in Greenland and Antarctica

Reporting this week in the journal Nature researchers from British Antarctic Survey and the University of Bristol describe how analysis of millions of NASA…

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Global warming may dent El Niño's protective shield from Atlantic hurricanes, increase droughts

“There are two El Niños, or flavors of El Niño,” said Ben Kirtman, co-author of the study and professor of meteorology and physical oceanography at the…

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Global Warming May Dent El Niño’s Protective Shield from Atlantic Hurricanes, Increase Droughts Elsewhere

“There are two El Niños, or flavors of El Niño,” said Ben Kirtman, co-author of the study and professor of meteorology and physical oceanography at the…

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Water Ice Discovered in Fresh Meteorite Craters on Mars

“We knew there was ice below the surface at high latitudes of Mars, but we find that it extends far closer to the equator than you would think, based on Mars'…

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"Rosetta Stone" of supervolcanoes discovered in Italian Alps

A fossil supervolcano has been discovered in the Italian Alps' Sesia Valley by a team led by James E. Quick, a geology professor at Southern Methodist…

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Ozone Layer Depletion Stabilizes: New Data Insights Revealed

Scientists merged monthly total ozone data derived from the vertically downward-looking measurements of the GOME instrument on ESA’s ERS-2 satellite, SCIAMACHY…

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Nullarbor Fireball Cameras Discover Rare Meteorite

The research team, including CSIRO scientist Dr Rob Hough, was led by Professor Phil Bland of Imperial College London. The remarkable “detective” work was…

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T. Rex Body Plan Debuted in Puny Raptorex

University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno and five co-authors describe the newly discovered dinosaur in the Sept. 17 Science Express, advanced online…

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