In a study published in the July 2008 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, Drs. David S. Nolan and Eric D. Rappin from the University of Miami's Rosenstiel…
A team of researchers, led by the University of Bristol, working alongside colleagues at the STFC Daresbury Laboratory, have gained a deeper insight into how…
The Springer journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (AAS) was recently named a Rising Star among geosciences journals by ScienceWatch.com. According to…
Primarily limited by temperature , little is known about secondary factors that restrict or enhance microbial activity or about the extent of a habitable…
The collaboration’s research, which resulted in a major advance in the understanding of Antarctica’s climatic history, appears in the Aug. 4 issue of the…
The German Research Vessel Polarstern had to prove its ice breaking capabilities in Arctic waters to gain data on two series of long-term research measurements.
– The birth, evolution and death of such hotspots are a product of ecological processes operating over geological time scales of millions of years. – To what…
The new map design follows a series of historical and ongoing arguments about ownership, and the race for resources, in the frozen lands and seas of the…
The underlying mechanism for these remarkable phenomena has been fascinating to scientists for decades; especially the origin of the recently discovered…
In an article in the scientific magazine “Nature – Geosciences”, the geoscientists Achim Brauer, Peter Dulski and Jörg Negendank, (emeritus Professor) from the…
Geoscientists have long presumed that, like today, the tropics remained warm throughout Earth's last major glaciation 300 million years ago.New evidence,…
Earth and computer scientists from 79 nations are working together on a global project called OneGeology to produce the first digital geological map of the…
The study suggests that Antarctica at that time was yet to develop extensive ice sheets. Back then, New Zealand was about 1100 km further south, at the same…
Dissolved sulfide minerals that solidify when vent water hits the icy cold of the deep sea have, over the years, accumulated around the vent field in what is…
You may read the scientific abstract for any already-published paper (not papers “in press”) by clicking on the link provided at the end of each Highlight. You…
The discovery by an international team of scientists is published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. It involved researchers from the University of…
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