Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

Understanding Volcano Formation: Insights from Siberian Researchers

Researchers from the United Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineralogy (Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences) under the guidance of Academician…

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Montana State University Secures $1.8M for New Cold Lab

The university recently secured $1.8 million in grants from the National Science Foundation and the Murdock Charitable Trust for what has tentatively been…

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NASA Software Improves Tsunami Warning Systems

A team led by Dr. Geoffrey Blewitt of the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology and Seismological Laboratory, University of Nevada, Reno, demonstrated that a…

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New GPS Software Enables Faster Tsunami Warnings

A team led by Geoffrey Blewitt of the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology and the University of Nevada, Reno, demonstrated that a large quake's true size and…

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Groundwater Flow After Earthquakes: New Insights for Oil Extraction

The enhanced permeability caused by seismic shaking could potentially be harnessed to help extract oil from natural reservoirs, said Emily Brodsky, assistant…

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MetOp-A Launch Approved for July 17: Key Innovations Ahead

With an array of sophisticated instrumentation, MetOp-A – jointly established by ESA and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological…

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ESA Donates Global Envisat Image Mosaic to United Nations

The image will be exhibited permanently in the new access building by the Pregny gate in the Palais des Nations compound. Mr Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director…

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Tropical Ice Cores Reveal Abrupt Climate Shifts Over Millennia

Their conclusions mark a massive climate shift to a cooler regime that occurred just over 5,000 years ago, and a more recent reversal to a much warmer world…

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Boston university researchers develop new model of ice volume change based on Earth's orbit

Through dated geological records scientists have known for decades that variations in the Earth's orbit around the sun – subtle changes in the distance between…

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Global Warming’s Impact on the 2005 Hurricane Season

“The global warming influence provides a new background level that increases the risk of future enhancements in hurricane activity,” Trenberth says. The…

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Tracking Earth's Wobbles Down to the Size of a Cell Phone

Earth's irregular, shorter term wobbles, lasting a week or so, have been more difficult to study, partly because these motions are usually masked by those of…

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Southern Ocean’s Key Role in Global Carbon Levels Explained

Though climate scientists have long debated the reasons behind the variation in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide that occur over lengthy periods in Earth's…

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Research expedition braves world's worst weather

In recent years the equipment contained two components, a weather station to record meteorological data and a telemetric component to broadcast data to a base…

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NASA’s Lightning Research Boosts Safety Awareness Initiatives

That statement usually gets people's attention when you tell them that fact. It is also a good reason to be aware of the dangers of lightning, especially as…

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Global Warming’s Role in 2005 Hurricane Season Insights

“The global warming influence provides a new background level that increases the risk of future enhancements in hurricane activity,” Trenberth says. The study…

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Climate Change Impact: East Asia vs. North Atlantic Differences

In particular, the scene from the film depicting huge ice balls falling on Tokyo, causing death and destruction, is very unlikely. The research suggests that…

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