Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

How Volatile Processes Shaped Earth’s Formation

Based on observations of newly-forming stars, scientists know that the solar system began as a disc of dust and gas surrounding the centrally-growing sun. The…

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Exploring Zealandia: Insights from the Recent Expedition

After a nine-week voyage to study the lost, submerged continent of Zealandia in the South Pacific, a team of 32 scientists from 12 countries has arrived in…

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Charting Ocean Currents: Innovations Using Mud Techniques

Researchers have found a way to chart changes in the speed of deep-ocean currents using the most modest of materials – mud. The approach, reported in the…

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Did marine sponges trigger the ‘Cambrian explosion’ through ‘ecosystem engineering’?

About 550 million years ago, almost all of todays’ living animal phyla appeared on Earth within just a few million years. This expansion of metazoans is also…

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In times of climate change: What a lake’s colour can tell about its condition

Lake specialist Dr. Benjamin Kraemer and his team used freely accessible NASA satellite images to test for associations between temperature and phytoplankton…

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FotoQuest GO: Engage in Citizen Science on Land-Use Change

Today IIASA researchers launched their latest citizen science campaign, Fotoquest GO. The aim of the campaign, which will run for around three months, is to…

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Studying Climate Impact on the Wadden Sea and Elbe Region

Climate change, offshore wind parks, input from agriculture or from hydraulic engineering influence the life in and around the Elbe and Wadden Sea. Prognoses…

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Arctic Sea Ice Retreats to 4.7 Million Square Kilometers

With a minimum extent of ca. 4.7 million square kilometres, Arctic sea ice continues to retreat

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Earthquake triggers 'slow motion' quakes in New Zealand

Some of the slow slip events occurred as far away as 300 miles from the earthquake's epicenter. The study of new linkages between the two types of seismic…

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NASA Tracks Summer Melt of Greenland Ice Sheet

“We started to mount these summer campaigns on a regular basis two years ago,” said Joe MacGregor, IceBridge's deputy project scientist and a glaciologist with…

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Ship Exhaust Intensifies Ocean Thunderstorms, Study Finds

A new study mapping lightning around the globe finds lightning strokes occur nearly twice as often directly above heavily-trafficked shipping lanes in the…

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Longer, Stronger Summers Transform Gulf of Maine Ecosystem

For all but a small region immediately north of Cape Hatteras at the southern edge of their study area, the researchers confirmed that surface water…

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Boron Found on Mars: New Insights Into Habitability Potential

The discovery of boron on Mars gives scientists more clues about whether life could have ever existed on the planet, according to a paper published today in…

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Glacier Mass Loss: Impact on Downstream Systems Explored

In their paper, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the authors synthesised currently available evidence and documented the profound…

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Antarctic Volcano Eruptions Impact Southern Hemisphere Climate

New findings published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) by Desert Research Institute (DRI)…

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New Findings on the Birthplaces of Metal Smelting

When and where did humans invent metal smelting? Scientists from Heidelberg University, London and Cambridge (Great Britain) have found the answer to this…

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