Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

Deep Sea Expedition Explores Extreme Ocean Environments

The team, which will be conducting research in environments that include scalding heat, high pressure, toxic chemicals and total darkness, is part of the…

Earth Sciences

New Tsunami Early Warning System Unveiled in Indonesia

As foreseen, the system was officially handed over to the BMKG (Meteorological, Climatology and Geophysical Agency of Indonesia) by the President of Indonesia,…

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Himalayan Erosion Rates Linked to Monsoon Intensity Over Time

The climate over much of Asia is dominated by seasonal winds that carry moist air over the Pacific Ocean into East Asia and over the Indian Ocean into South…

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Ice age beasts on the Kyffhäuser range – Migration of woolly rhinoceroses earlier than assumed

At the time, the brow of a glacier existed only a few kilometres away, which expanded during the Elsterian ice age from Scandinavia towards the southwest and…

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Clouds: Nature’s Key to Predicting Climate Change

The earth's climate field is regulated by the balance between incoming solar radiation and outbound heat radiation. The aerosol content of the atmosphere, that…

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Natural Gas Anomalies: Insights from Seismic Response Research

This research further shows the increased porosity facilitates natural gas concentrations in top of the mid-crust to form some large gas reservoirs, which can…

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Exploring New Insights from Multi-Stroke Lightning Discharges

By using this system, a cloud-to-ground lightning flash containing 19 strokes was observed and several new characteristics of lightning have been revealed. The…

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Irish Weather Buoy Network Upgrade Enhances Marine Safety

Weather is THE fundamental force at sea. It can turn a sunny day into a swirling death trap in a matter of minutes, send a yacht peacefully on its way or sink…

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It’s Relative: Contrasting Hurricane Theories Heat Up

In a paper published in the journal Science today, scientists Gabriel A. Vecchi of NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Kyle L. Swanson of the…

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Greenland Icecap Melting: Impacts on Sea Level Rise Explained

Yet while the southern Greenland ice cap has been melting, it is still not clear how much this is contributing to rising sea levels, and much further research…

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Biomolecules Boost Metal Content in Calcite Crystal Growth

In the October 31 issue of Science magazine, Allison Stephenson, a Ph.D. candidate in geoscience, and Patricia Dove, professor of geoscience in the College of…

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Evidence of Pre-2004 Tsunamis Discovered on Indian Ocean Shores

A team working on Phra Thong, a barrier island along the hard-hit west coast of Thailand, unearthed evidence of at least three previous major tsunamis in the…

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Indonesian Mud Volcano Cause Confirmed by Global Geologists

A resounding vote of international petroleum geologists from around the globe concluded that the mud volcano was triggered by drilling of a nearby gas…

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New Insights on African Middle Stone Age Classification

The Cologne archaeologist Dr. Ralf Vogelsang from the Africa Research Centre of the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology and a team of international…

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Arctic Sea Ice Thinning: New Insights from UCL Research

Using Envisat radar altimeter data, scientists from the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at University College London (UCL) measured sea ice…

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Earthworm activity can alter forests' carbon-carrying capabilities

The Purdue scientists, along with collaborators from the Smithsonian Institution and Johns Hopkins University, study the habits of earthworms originally…

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