Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

NASA Monitors Heavy Rain from Arabian Sea Cyclone 02A

On June 28 at 1800 UTC (2 p.m. EDT) the Joint Typhoon Warning Center issued its final bulletin on Tropical Cyclone 02A.

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Human Impact on Northern Hemisphere Greening Revealed

The research team, led by Jiafu Mao of the Ecosystem Simulation Science group in the Environmental Sciences Division, used new environmental data and strict…

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Peatlands at Risk: Rising Sea Levels Threaten Carbon Storage

Rising sea-levels linked to global warming could pose a significant threat to the effectiveness of the world's peatland areas as carbon sinks, a new study has…

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Ocean Currents Shift Due to Global Warming: New Study Insights

Global warming results in fundamental changes to important ocean currents. As scientists from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute show in a new study, wind-driven…

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New Insights Into Earth’s Largest Ecological Disaster

There have been several mass extinctions in the history of the earth. One of the largest known disasters occurred around 252 million years ago at the boundary…

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ChemCam Reveals Mars’ Oxygen-Rich Past Through Manganese Oxides

The discovery of manganese oxides in Martian rocks might tell us that the Red Planet was once more Earth-like than previously believed. A new paper in Geophysical Research Letters…

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Ethane Levels Surge Again: Insights from CU Boulder Scientists

A team led by scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder (CU)-Boulder, supported by Andrea Pozzer from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz,…

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New Technique Resolves US Arctic Peak Controversy

At 6190m, Denali is the uncontested highest peak in North America, but beyond the Arctic Circle, a debate remains as to which US mountain can be crowned the…

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Volcanoes’ Silent Signals: Insights from Leading Scientists

Carnegie volcanologist Diana Roman, working with a team of scientists from Penn State, Oxford University, the University of Iceland, and INETER* has shown that…

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Cosmopolitan Snow Algae Speed Up Arctic Glacier Melting

The new study by Stefanie Lutz, postdoc at the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ and at the University of Leeds, shows a 13 per cent reduction of the…

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Humus Loss in Bavarian Alps: Impact on Soil Health

Humus stocks are essential for soil fertility, water balance and nutrient supply of the soil. Previous studies established that especially in cooler mountain…

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IOW Expedition Explores Baltic Sea Eddies for Climate Data

Marine currents consist of a great number of eddies that vary in dimension from a few millimetres to several hundred kilometres. Even the smallest of them can…

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New Meteorite Discovered From Ancient Asteroid Collision

“In our entire civilization, we have collected over 50,000 meteorites, and no one has seen anything like this one before,” said study co-author Qing-zhu Yin,…

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Carbon Dioxide’s Role in Thawing Permafrost Revealed

The study, published today, was led by Northern Arizona University assistant research professor, Christina Schädel. One of her collaborators is Evan Kane, an…

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RV Polarstern Launches Arctic Research Season 2023

Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) are setting out with the research vessel Polarstern towards…

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Coal Ash Ponds Leak Toxins, Duke Study Reveals Concerns

A Duke University study of coal ash ponds near 21 power plants in five Southeastern U.S. states has found evidence that nearby surface waters and groundwater…

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