Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

New Ocean Current Discovery Aids Commercial Fishing Insights

This new pattern explains, for the first time, changes in the water that are important in helping commercial fishermen understand fluctuations in the fish…

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How Dust Storms Intensified the Great Plains Drought

Three million people left their farms on the Great Plains during the drought and half a million migrated to other states, almost all to the West. But the Dust…

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FSU geochemist challenges key theory regarding Earth's formation

Munir Humayun, an associate professor in FSU’s Department of Geological Sciences and a researcher at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, co-authored a…

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'Dynamic duo' develops framework for Earth's inaccessible interior

“The past maybe two or three years there have been a lot of papers in Science and Nature about the deep mantle from seismologists and mineral physicists and…

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Scientists Explore Alaska’s Ice Cores to Unravel Climate Change

In an effort to better understand how the Pacific Northwest fits into the larger climate-change picture, scientists from the University of New Hampshire and…

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Global Warming: A Brief Pause Ahead? Insights from IPCC Report

To date climate change projections, as published in the last IPCC report, only considered changes in future atmospheric composition. This strategy is…

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Is the ocean losing oxygen? – Oxygen in tropical oceans is declining

A new study lead by Dr. Lothar Stramma from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) in Kiel, Germany, now published in „Science“, documents that…

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GEMAS Project: Unveiling Europe’s Soil Chemistry Patterns

The GEMAS-Project will uncover new knowledge about the geographical pattern of the chemistry of soils used to produce food, and the project is led by Clemens…

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First nanoscale image of soil reveals an 'incredible' variety

But when you look at soil's organic carbon closely, it has an incredible variety of known compounds. And looking closely is exactly what Cornell researchers…

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Entekhabi will lead science team for NASA satellite mission to map Earth’s water cycle

At present, scientists have no network for gathering soil moisture data as they do for rainfall, winds, humidity and temperature. Instead, that data is…

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'New' ancient Antarctic sediment reveals climate change history

FSU’s latest Antarctic sediment core acquisition was extracted from deep beneath the sea floor of Antarctica’s western Ross Sea, the Earth’s largest floating…

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Before fossil fuels, Earth's minerals kept CO2 in check

A joint University of Hawaii / Carnegie Institution study published in the advance online edition of Nature Geoscience links the pre-human stability to…

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Stratospheric Injections: Global Warming Risks to Ozone Layer

The study, led by Simone Tilmes of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), warns that such an approach might delay the recovery of the Antarctic…

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Ozone Hole Recovery: Impact on Southern Hemisphere Climate

While Earth's average surface temperatures have been increasing, the interior of Antarctica has exhibited a unique cooling trend during the austral summer and…

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Houston’s Hidden Risks: UH Geologist Discovers 300 Faults

After finding more than 300 surface faults in Harris County, a University of Houston geologist now has information that could be vitally useful to the region’s…

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Ozone-Hole Recovery Could Influence Antarctic Warming

“If the successful control of ozone-depleting substances allows for a full recovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica, we may finally see the interior of…

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