Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

UK Launches International Polar Year: Tackling Climate Change

Leading scientists will describe how the international scientific community will work together to address the serious global threat of climate change,…

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European Polar Year 2007-2008 Launch: Key Insights from Strasbourg

Policy makers and leading scientists from various fields are gathering at the European Parliament in Strasbourg to discuss how the international scientific…

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Iberian Peninsula Sees Rising Minimum Temperatures

The curious thing is the rise in minimum temperatures. Tablelands are the most representative area from a climatic point of view; if we take them as a…

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Bacteria: A Natural Solution for Earthquake-Resilient Buildings

When a major earthquake strikes, deep, sandy soils can turn to liquid, with disastrous consequences for buildings sitting on them. Currently, civil engineers…

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Lakes Beneath Antarctic Ice Sheets Drive Oceanic Flow

Geophysicists Robin Bell and Michael Studinger from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, a part of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, led a team that…

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Empowering Inuit Innovation Through Essential Tools and Resources

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council grantee Barry Smit says the Inuit are sometimes not being given the tools they need to make the correct…

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Mapping Antarctic Secrets: Dr. Woodward’s Ice Research

Glaciologist Dr John Woodward will use radar and seismics to map and understand the movement of water underneath the ice sheet and look at how that changes the…

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Afghanistan’s Copper Potential: A Key to Economic Growth

Afghanistan is well endowed with mineral resources such as copper, gold, iron ore and gemstones. During the late 1970’s and 1980’s, Russian geologists carried…

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Melting Ice and CO2: Insights from Earth’s Climate Shift

Poulsen will discuss his findings in a symposium titled “Geosystems: Climate Lessons from Earth's Last Great Icehouse” at the annual meeting of the American…

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Measuring Atmospheric Impact on Greenland’s Climate Change

An international team of climate scientists led by the University of East Anglia will measure for the first time the influence of the atmosphere over Greenland…

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Mapping Life Cycle of Unique Organism in Extreme Environments

The findings are being published this week in an article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S. With the aid of microarray technology,…

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Antarctic Temperature Trends Challenge Climate Models

This comes soon after the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that strongly supports the conclusion that the Earth's climate as a…

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How Cloud Aerosols Impact Climate Change Dynamics

That's because aerosols, fine particles such as smoke and dust that form droplets in clouds and change cloud thickness, affect how much sun is able to pass…

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IPCC’s Strong Statement on Global Climate Change Insights

Dr David Carlson, Director of the IPY International Programme Office says: “IPCC has made a strong and definitive statement about global climate change, a…

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Join the European Launch of International Polar Year 2007

Important note: Journalists must register with the European Science Foundation by the 16th February 2007 in order to be able to enter the European Parliament…

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Scientists Uncover Oil Secrets in Ocean Margins

Scientists funded through the Natural Environment Research Council’s (NERC) Ocean Margins LINK programme are helping to plug the gap in knowledge about these…

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