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Study Reveals Key Stress Factors of Japan’s Mega-Earthquake

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego researchers published new findings on the role geological rock formations offshore of Japan played in…

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LISA Pathfinder: Testing Gold/Platinum Cubes in Space Mission

Just on this account, the European Space Agency has sent a satellite into space which is to perform the preparatory work for the direct detection of…

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Study Finds Pursuing Happiness May Reduce Overall Well-Being

Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) was once commonly used as a cleaning agent and remains an important compound in chemical industry. CCl4 is responsible for that…

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Study Reveals Rising Sea Levels Drive Up Damage Costs

“When sea levels rise, damage costs rise even faster, our analyses show,” explains Markus Boettle, lead author of the study published in the journal Natural…

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Exploring Underground Seasonal Thermal Storage Innovations

GFZ German Research Centre begins exploratory drilling on the TU Berlin campus.

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NASA Monitors Wind Shear Impact on Tropical Storm Winston

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Winston and infrared data showed that the northerly wind shear had pushed the bulk of strongest storms to the south of the…

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Wastewater Treatment Plants: Key Microplastics Source in Rivers

Microplastics – small pieces of plastic less than 5 millimeters (0.20 inches) wide – are an emerging environmental concern in ocean waters, where they can harm…

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NASA Observes Pinhole Eye in Weakening Tropical Cyclone Winston

On Feb. 23, 2016 at 0140 UTC (Feb. 22, 2016 at 8:40 p.m. EST) the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP…

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Dark Taiga Faces Threats from Climate Change Effects

Climate change is transforming the Earth, particularly in high-latitude regions. The boreal coniferous forests of the northern hemisphere will witness an…

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El Niño prolongs longest global coral bleaching event

Global warming and the intense El Niño now underway are prolonging the longest global coral die-off on record, according to NOAA scientists monitoring and…

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Key Insights on Sea-Level Rise for Coastal Planners

Together, the two studies give critical information for coastal planning. For expert assessments of future sea-level rise, the authors make the tool available…

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Subsurface CO2 Storage: Impact on Soil Biogeochemical Cycles

The more clearly the dimensions of global warming become visible, the greater is the pressure to find possible ways to avoid a further increase in the…

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Seagrass Genome Sequenced: A Valuable Resource Unlocked

The University of Delaware's Pamela Green is part of an international consortium of researchers from 35 laboratories that have published the genome of the…

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Deep-Ocean Turbulence May Influence Global Circulation

The findings, presented this week at the annual American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences conference and recently published online in the journal Geophysical…

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'Ice age blob' of warm ocean water discovered south of Greenland

Extreme climate changes in the past Ice core records show that Greenland went through 25 extreme and abrupt climate changes during the last ice age some 20.000…

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Exploring Multiple Cosmic Impacts on Earth 790,000 Years Ago

Approximately 790,000 years ago there were multiple cosmic impacts on earth with global consequences. Geoscientists from Heidelberg University reached this…

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