Previous studies of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica have shown that when global climates warmed between 14,000 and 11,500 years ago, levels of methane…
They suggest that nanotechnology could help us extract more fuel and feedstock hydrocarbons from dwindling resources. However, industry inertia and a lack of…
In a paper published in the latest issue of the Zootaxa journal, Dr David Penney and co-authors from Ghent University in Belgium report on the use of a…
Forecasters said Noel, the 14th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, has tropical storm force winds fanning 225 km from its centre and could unleash…
To mark the 125th anniversary of the 1st International Polar Year, the University of Barcelona has carried out this research project in the north of the Arctic…
Ohio State University geologists and their colleagues have uncovered evidence of when Earth may have first supported an oxygen-rich atmosphere similar to the…
Methane bubbling from arctic lakes could have been responsible for up to 87 percent of that methane spike, said UAF researcher Katey Walter, lead author of a…
What were just a few years ago small hints about Mars' water and climate, as seen in a few “postage-stamp” high-resolution images and topography, have given…
The greatest mass extinction in Earth’s history also may have been one of the slowest, according to a study that casts further doubt on the…
This new view of Earth’s inner workings depicts the planet as a living organism where events that happen deep inside can affect what happens at its surface,…
Real thermometers have been available since the 17th century. For all periods before this, researchers depend on signs from nature. For such determinations,…
The air contains greenhouse gases such as CO2, which are now known to be responsible for global warming because their concentration has risen continu-ously for…
The research team has, for the first time, discovered a close association between Earth climate and extinctions in a study that has examined the relationship…
University of Leicester geologist, Professor Randall R Parrish will be giving this message to the 119th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America at…
The new findings are in line with recent findings in other high-mass isotope systems – such as thallium or mercury – that had been assumed to be invariant….
More than 50 experts from space agencies and organisations around the world met earlier this month at the GEO/CEOS Workshop on Calibration and Validation…
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