Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

Ag Chemicals and Environment: A Holistic Overview

An understanding how environmental processes and agricultural practices interact to determine the transport and fate of agricultural chemicals in the…

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Big Quakes Trigger Global Temblors: Study Insights

A recent study of major earthquakes since 1992 – the kind that can generate widespread damage – revealed that such events routinely trigger smaller jolts…

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Massive Mine Collapse Spreads Over 50 Acres Near Miners

The University of Utah Seismograph Stations estimated the size of the collapse is about four times larger than was thought shortly after the time of the Aug….

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Sophisticated Soil Analysis Boosts Land Use Efficiency

Soil variation occurs across multiple geographic scales ranging from vast climatic regions of the Earth to a 50 acre farm field to the molecular world of soil…

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Stress Buildup Patterns Before Major Sumatra Earthquakes

Now, scientists from the California Institute of Technology and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences are harnessing information from these and earlier quakes…

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Methane Release: A Historical Threat to Climate Stability

An abrupt release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, about 635 million years ago from ice sheets that then extended to Earth’s low latitudes caused a…

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New Geomorphological Index Enhances Mountain Tectonics Study

Now, researchers from the Universities of Granada and Jaen, alongside scientists from the University of California (Santa Barbara, USA), have developed, based…

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Exploring Ice Shelves: How Robots Aid Climate Research

Scientists are diligently working to understand how and why the world’s ice shelves are melting. While most of the data they need (temperatures, wind speed,…

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World’s fastest-growing mud volcano is collapsing

As the second anniversary (May 29) of the eruption on the Indonesian island of Java approaches, scientists have also found that the centre of the volcano –…

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September launch for ESA's gravity mission GOCE

As a consequence of the new launch date, the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite is currently undergoing final flight…

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Geoengineering’s Impact on the Global Water Cycle Revealed

However, a new study from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, led by atmospheric scientist Govindasamy Bala, shows that this intentional manipulation of…

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Young Mineral Scientists Explore Earth’s Core and More

What’s going on in the earth’s core, why are there magnetic anomalies in rocks, how is water incorporated in minerals, and how do pearls grow? These and many…

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Exploring Innovation: Camping in Kamchatka Peninsula Wilderness

Led by ecology lecturer Dr Markus Eichhorn, the team will spend 10 weeks camping in the wilderness of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Far East Russia, an area of…

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Mars Rover Discovers Yellowstone-Like Hot Spring Deposits

Such deposits are found around hydrothermal vents like those in Yellowstone National Park. That's the conclusion of planetary scientists working with data…

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Autumn Rain Decline in SE Australia: Key Insights Revealed

According to a report from a CSIRO Wealth From Oceans Flagship study – published this week in the science journal Geophysical Research Letters – since 1950…

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How Big Quakes Trigger Global Seismic Jolts

Until 1992, when California’s magnitude-7.3 Landers earthquake set off small jolts as far away as Yellowstone National Park, scientists did not believe large…

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