Earth Sciences
Earth Sciences (also referred to as Geosciences), which deals with basic issues surrounding our planet, plays a vital role in the area of energy and raw materials supply.
Earth Sciences comprises subjects such as geology, geography, geological informatics, paleontology, mineralogy, petrography, crystallography, geophysics, geodesy, glaciology, cartography, photogrammetry, meteorology and seismology, early-warning systems, earthquake research and polar research.
Risk of even greater climate change
It is important to take into account these biogeochemical feedbacks in research on climate change, according to an international research group led by…
Final instruments on NASA climate/weather satellite integrated
The NPP satellite was a pre-cursor mission to the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) that has recently been…
Extreme Archaeology: Divers Plumb Mysteries of Mayan Pools
This project, led by University of Illinois anthropology professor Lisa Lucero and funded by the National Geographic Society and an Arnold O. Beckman Award,…
NASA satellites see System 97L serve up a soaking
The National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla. predicted that conditions were favorable for formation of a tropical depression or tropical storm from System 97L…
NASA satellites tracking rain-packed Tropical Storm Chanthu as it heads toward China
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite flew over Tropical storm Chanthu on July 20 at 1316 UTC (9:16 a.m. EDT) as it churned in the South…
First-of-Its-Kind Map Details the Height of the Globe’s Forests
The map, based on data collected by NASA's ICESat, Terra, and Aqua satellites, should help scientists build an inventory of how much carbon the world’s forests…