Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

Unveiling the Amazon’s Chemical Fingerprint for Environmental Science

In 2017, Scot Martin, the Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied…

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Satellite data record shows climate change's impact on fires

Since 1880, the world has warmed by 1.9 degrees Fahrenheit, with the five warmest years on record occurring in the last five years. Since the 1980s, the…

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Tracking Sulfur-Based Metabolism in Ocean Microbes

A study by University of Washington oceanographers, published this summer in Nature Microbiology, looks at how photosynthetic microbes and ocean bacteria use…

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Secrets of Lake Ohrid: Unveiling Europe’s Ancient Wonders

In 2013, the international research team with LIAG participation began its investigations on Lake Ohrid between Macedonia and Albania. Researchers from various…

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Study Reveals Anak Krakatau Collapse Behind 2018 Tsunami

A new study published in Geology presents the detailed observation of a tsunami-generating volcano collapse by remote sensing. The paper by Rebecca Williams of…

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Ice Age Savannah Corridor Enabled Mammal Spread in Southeast Asia

New research from the University of Tübingen indicates that the Thai-Malay Peninsula – where parts of Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand are located – was at least…

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Boreal Forest Fires: Uncovering Deep Soil Carbon Risks

Canada's Northwest Territories were scorched by record-breaking wildfires in 2014. The team of researchers from the United States and Canada took soil samples…

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Deep-Sea Methane Source Discovered: A Major Breakthrough

“Identifying an abiotic source of deep-sea methane has been a problem that we've been wrestling with for many years,” says Jeffrey Seewald a senior scientist…

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Detecting Ocean Changes: New Study Sheds Light on Climate Impact

Sea temperature and ocean acidification have climbed during the last three decades to levels beyond what is expected due to natural variation alone, a new…

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New insight into glaciers regulating global silicon cycling

This, say the researchers, could have implications for marine primary productivity and impact the carbon cycle on the timescales of ice ages.

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Coastal Seas Under Stress: Insights from SONNE Expedition

Over the past three decades, China, one of the world’s most densely populated countries, has experienced a massive increase of industrial and agricultural…

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Coastal Marine Sediments and Their Role in Greenhouse Gases

Nitrous oxide – or laughing gas – is a greenhouse gas nearly 300 times as harmful as carbon dioxide. Much of it is released by human activity, for example from…

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USF Geoscientists Uncover Greenland Ice Sheet Collapse Mechanisms

In research published in Nature Communications, a group of scientists led by USF Distinguished University Professor Tim Dixon, PhD, uncovered a process that…

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Three Spacecraft Set to Welcome a Pristine Comet

Three spacecraft will intercept a pristine comet or a previously unknown interstellar object that is about to enter the inner solar system. The spacecraft…

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Preventing West Antarctic Ice Collapse with Snowy Ocean Water

A team of researchers from the Potsdam Institute is now scrutinising a daring way of stabilising the ice sheet: Generating trillions of tons of additional…

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New Radar Technology Tracks Arctic Sea Level Rise

Over the past 22 years, sea levels in the Arctic have risen an average of 2.2 millimeters per year. This is the conclusion of a Danish-German research team…

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