Extreme heat, dry summers main cause of tree death in Colorado’s subalpine forests
Credit: Robert Andrus Even in the absence of bark beetle outbreaks and wildfire, trees in Colorado subalpine forests are dying ...
Tag: Earth Science
UC San Diego receives $35 million in state funding for new coastal research vessel
First-of-its-kind hydrogen-hybrid vessel will be vital to education and researchCredit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego California legislators ...
China’s carbon-monitoring satellite reports global carbon net of six gigatons
Credit: Dongxu Yang About six gigatons -- roughly 12 times the mass of all living humans -- of carbon appears ...
Top geology award goes to Ian Dalziel of The University of Texas at Austin
Credit: Ian Dalziel Ian W.D. Dalziel, a professor in the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at ...
California’s carbon mitigation efforts may be thwarted by climate change itself
UCI study: Higher heat will limit ecosystem's role in removing atmospheric CO2Credit: Shane Coffield / UCI Irvine, Calif., July 22, ...
New study reports strong indications of freshened groundwater offshore the Maltese Islands
Study is a product of the MARCAN project, led by the University of MaltaCredit: Prof. Aaron Micallef An international team ...
A rock with many perspectives
Credit: Schulz, GFZ The Alum Shale of Northern Europe not only has an eventful history of formation, connected with the ...
Land repair vital for survival
Successful dryland restoration to benefit 2bn peopleCredit: Flinders University Restoration of degraded drylands is urgently needed to mitigate climate change, ...
A new model of coral reef health
Using data collected on the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation's Global Reef Expedition, scientists identify which natural and anthropogenic ...
Deep-sea research bolstered with $2 million grant
Credit: Photo courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has been awarded $2 million by the ...
Crime scene tape set to revolutionize microplastics research
Forensic scientists have developed a new method to help monitor plastic pollution across the world.Credit: Staffordshire University An adhesive tape ...
Using snakes to monitor Fukushima radiation
Researchers placed tiny GPS trackers on rat snakes to track their movements at FukishimaCredit: Hannah Gerke Ten years after one ...
15,000-year-old viruses discovered in Tibetan glacier ice
Most of the viruses were previously unknown to humans, study findsCredit: Image courtesy Lonnie Thompson, The Ohio State University COLUMBUS, ...
Data identifies turbine wake clustering, improves wind farm productivity via yaw control
Truly green energy by seeing the forest despite the treesCredit: University of Texas at Dallas WASHINGTON, July 20, 2021 -- ...