In the January 5 issue of the journal Science, the researchers from the University of California, San Diego, the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)…
While information from sophisticated satellites and instruments have recently allowed scientists to quickly determine the exact location of wildfires and to…
The launch of IPY on March 1 2007 will mark the onset of an internationally coordinated research campaign in both polar regions involving hundreds of projects…
“Climate researchers often use a scenario approach,” says Dr. Klaus Keller, assistant professor of geosciences, Penn State. “Nevertheless, scenarios are…
Drilling has been completed on the deepest borehole for seismic instruments in the eastern U.S. The four-inch diameter hole for the Central U.S. Seismic…
Scientists have found how fluids, such as water, become sealed within the earth’s fault planes for a long period of time. This fluid pressure makes it easier…
The set of six microsatellites, launched in April, is probing the atmosphere in ways that have been impossible with previous observing systems. Dubbed COSMIC…
“These are unexpected results,” says David DeWalle, professor of forest hydrology at Penn State. “Rising amounts of carbon dioxide in streams and soil could…
“Until now, there has been ample evidence that these particles have important effects on climate in the Northern Hemisphere but little such evidence in the…
These powerful conclusions are being presented Dec. 11 during a press conference and a special technical session at the annual meeting of American Geophysical…
On Monday, Dec. 11, at 4 p.m. PT, climate experts will discuss the long-term effects of atomic warfare at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union…
Researchers created a history of changing midge communities for six remote mountain lakes in the western United States. Midges, which resemble mosquitoes but…
Scientists from Northwestern University, the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center and the University of Illinois at Chicago have found that New…
The research appears in the latest issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters, and will be presented today at the American Geophysical Union conference…
Rondonia is a state in the Amazonian region where the establishment of rural development projects has resulted in the construction of orthogonal road networks….
“This is the most realistic model to date,” said Kaj Johnson, assistant professor of geological sciences at Indiana University, who worked on the modeling…