Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

New technique tracks 'heartbeat' of hundreds of wetlands

They were on the Columbia Plateau with two state wetland ecologists, searching for a 1-acre body of water identified and mapped for the first time using a new…

Earth Sciences

Analyzing 5 Million Years of Climate Variations

When we talk about climate change today, we have to look at what the climate was previously like in order to recognise the natural variations and to be able to…

Earth Sciences

Boat Mooring Chains Damage Rottnest Seagrass, Release CO2

Dr Oscar Serrano led the research with Professor Paul Lavery and Professor Pere Masque from the Edith Cowan University (ECU) and the Universitat Autònoma de…

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Future of the Arctic: Thawing Ice Wedges and Their Impact

Throughout the Arctic, ice wedges are thawing at a rapid pace. Changes to these structures, which are very common in permafrost landscapes, have a massive…

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Winds hide Atlantic variability from Europe's winters

Shifting winds may explain why long-term fluctuations in North Atlantic sea surface temperatures have no apparent influence on Europe's wintertime…

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ACTRIS Joins Updated ESFRI Research Infrastructure Roadmap

ESFRI led evaluation panels and working groups assessed in 2015 the candidate projects by their scientific excellence, pan-European relevance, socio-economic…

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Innovative Strategies to Combat Unstoppable Sea-Level Rise

“We explored a way to at least delay the rise of sea level we can no longer avoid by even the strictest climate-change mitigation strategies. This is estimated…

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New Ocean Observatory Monitors Red Sea’s Marine Environment

The Marine Environmental Research Center established jointly by KAUST and Saudi Aramco is the first oceanic observatory capable of monitoring the Red Sea.

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How Supervolcano Eruptions Move Hot Ash and Gas

Supervolcanoes capable of unleashing hundreds of times the amount of magma that was expelled during the Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980 are found in…

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Iberian Peninsula’s Magnetic Trace: Ancient Rotation Insights

The bathers that gather every summer on the banks of the rivers of the mountain ranges of La Cabrera and El Teleno in Leon (Spain) have little reason to…

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Clean Energy’s Impact on Global Water Resources: New Insights

Climate mitigation efforts in the energy system could lead to increasing pressure on water resources, according to a new study published in the journal…

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NASA's IMERG measures flooding rainfall in Peru

GPM is the Global Precipitation Measurement mission, which is a satellite co-managed by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and is used in NASA's…

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Permafrost Thawing: Impact on Vegetation and Carbon Cycle

Neil Sturchio, professor and chair of the University of Delaware's Department of Geological Sciences, is exploring how the thawing of permafrost, a subsurface…

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Exploring Ocean Noise: Hydrophone Records Mariana Trench Sounds

For three weeks, a titanium-encased hydrophone recorded ambient noise from the ocean floor at a depth of more than 36,000 feet in a trough known as Challenger…

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Max Earthquake Magnitude Risks for Istanbul, North Turkey

Geoscientists and natural disaster management experts are well aware of the risk prevailing in the megacity of Istanbul: The Istanbul metropolitan region faces…

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Extreme Tornado Outbreaks on the Rise, Study Reveals

Most death and destruction inflicted by tornadoes in North America occurs during outbreaks–large-scale weather events that can last one to three days and span…

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