Researchers from Penn State and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science are studying the Chesapeake Bay to see how changes in sea level may…
A new Cornell study, published online in Nature Geoscience, quantified the amount of black carbon in Australian soils and found that there was far more than…
Global trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decadeOctober temperatures (preliminary)Global composite temp.:+0.17 C (about 0.31° Fahrenheit) above 20-year…
But those missing markers of radiation, remnants from atomic bomb tests a half-century ago, foretell much greater threat to the half-billion or more people…
Imperial College London researchers say their work is a major breakthrough as current methods for analysing zinc pollution only measure pollution in the…
Although the Earth has undergone significant changes in the past, there is mounting evidence that the changes imposed, mostly by human activity, during the…
The risks of flooding, marine erosion and landslips are a hot topic for engineers, planners and coastal managers as well as for people who live on vulnerable…
This interpretation of structural response is based on real-world data now being reported, which supports decades of model simulations of mountain formation…
This finding provides important clues for protecting Europe's rivers against a combined onslaught from human development and climate change, which are…
Engineering geologists from Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) are modeling mass movements with specially adapted computer programs. Their know-how is…
At a European Science Foundation and COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research) 'Frontiers of Science' meeting in Sicily in…
A group of researchers has presented the new ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) in the magazine IEEE Transactions on instrumentation and measurement. Thanks to its…
Space weather ingredients: flares overwhelming the Earth suddenly with an overdose of radiation, enormous and heavy plasma clouds rushing through space and…
Wetlands are areas that are covered with water for long enough periods to support plants that thrive in wet soils, so they are not all wet year-round. The…
Sea level rise in one of the major consequences of global warming, but it is much more difficult to model and predict than temperature. It involves the oceans…
The 500 million year-old fossils of the Burgess Shale in Canada, discovered over a century ago, still provide one of the most remarkable insights into the dawn…
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