A new study led by Columbia University researchers has found that the closing of the ozone hole, which is projected to occur sometime in the second half of the…
Discovered by a geologist in the Sustut Basin of north-central British Columbia 37 years ago, the bones, which are about 70 million years old, were tucked away…
The finding suggests that parts of the raw materials to make the first molecules of DNA and RNA may have come from the stars. The scientists, from Europe and…
Climate experts agree that the seriousness of manmade global warming depends greatly upon how clouds in the climate system respond to the small warming…
Dr. Rüdiger Giese from the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ) and his team receive the “Technology Transfer Award 2008” from the Technology Foundation…
This complex of ancient magmas is known to have formed some two billion years ago, but the source of its metallic riches has been a matter of scientific…
Research icebreaker Polarstern of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research of the Helmholtz Association puts out to the Arctic on June 12th…
The findings raise concerns about the thawing of permafrost, or permanently frozen soil, and the potential consequences for sensitive ecosystems, human…
May headlines:Tropics see 5th coolest month;Globe coolest since Jan. 2000Global trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decadeMay temperatures (preliminary)Global composite temp.: – 0.18 C (about 0.32 degrees Fahrenheit) below…
Writing in International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, Peter van der Gaag of the Holland Innovation Team, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, has hit on…
Today Antarctica is a harsh world. Devoid of trees and bushes, it is largely covered in snow and ice and battered by frigid winds. There are no land-based…
New research from NASA has concluded that tropical cyclones like Gaston produce rain differently than another class of storms called “extra-tropical” cyclones….
The most detailed scientific analysis to date disproves the theory that an earthquake that happened two-days before the mud volcano erupted in East Java,…
New research that integrates seismic recordings with Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements indicates that a 7,000-square-mile region of the Whillians…
That's the question R.D. Schuiling of Geochem Research BV, based in The Netherlands, asks in the current issue of the Inderscience Publication, International…
A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University and Newcastle University in the United Kingdom have found…
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