Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

Exploring Food Webs: Human Connections to Nature and Agriculture

“As southwestern archaeologists, we know that Ancestral Puebloan people were intrinsically connected to the environment,” said Stefani Crabtree, postdoctoral…

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Isotopic Fingerprint of N2O Emissions Found in Arctic Tundra

A new study from the University of Eastern Finland presents, for the first time, the isotopic fingerprint of nitrous oxide produced by Arctic soils. The…

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How Deep Melting Creates Volcanic Arcs Beneath Oceans

Beneath the ocean, massive tectonic plates collide and grind against one another, which drives one below the other. This powerful collision, called subduction,…

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New Canopy Radiative Transfer Model Enhances Land Surface Radiation

However, the canopy varies geographically from that of dense tropical forests to the shrublands of arid desert lands, and temporally from the vibrancy of…

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A NASA infrared look at the Southern Indian Ocean's 15th tropical cyclone

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite looked at Tropical Cyclone 15S in infrared light. Infrared light provides…

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Glacier bacteria’s contribution to carbon cycling

A new study, now published in the journal Nature Geoscience, shows how microbial communities in melting glaciers contribute to the Earth’s carbon cycle, a…

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Rethinking the Little Ice Age: Climate Change Insights

Explanations for the cooling to Earth's climate, thought to have occurred between the 16th and 19th centuries, include low solar activity, volcanic eruptions,…

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Gradual Decline of Dinosaurs Discovered in Cretaceous Research

While conducting paleontological research in northeastern Mexico, the scientists came upon sedimentary rock deposited toward the end of the Cretaceous Period…

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Exploring Ocean Waters: Understanding Atmospheric Aerosols

Aerosols are collections of fine particles, either biological or of other types, in suspension in a gaseous medium. They play a major role in cloud formation…

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Researchers discover dust plays prominent role in nutrients of mountain forest ecoystems

The study shows that dust also may be crucial in mountainous forest ecosystems, dominating nutrient budgets despite continuous replacement of depleted soils…

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As sea level rises, much of Honolulu and Waikiki vulnerable to groundwater inundation

Shellie Habel, lead author of the study and doctoral student in the UHM Department of Geology and Geophysics, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology…

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Satellites reveal bird habitat loss in California

Drought and reduced seasonal flooding of wetlands and farm fields threaten a globally important stopover site for tens of thousands of migratory shorebirds in…

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More than 100 years of flooding and erosion in 1 event

More than half of the eroded sediment was deposited at the inlet and delta of a water supply reservoir, resulting in the equivalent of 100 years of reservoir…

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Sun's impact on climate change quantified for first time

There is human-induced climate change, and there are natural climate fluctuations. One important factor in the unchanging rise and fall of the Earth's…

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Impact of Human Activity on Giant Airstreams and Weather Extremes

“The unprecedented 2016 California drought, the 2011 U.S. heatwave and 2010 Pakistan flood as well as the 2003 European hot spell all belong to a most worrying…

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Northern Oceans Shift Function, Pumping CO2 into Atmosphere

Oceans changed function

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