Climate change threatens one-third of global food production
New estimates show that if greenhouse gases continue growing at current rates, large regions at risk of being pushed into ...
Tag: Earth Science
Where on Earth is all the water?
There may be up to 70 times more hydrogen in Earth's core than in the oceansCredit: © 2021 Tagawa et ...
Herbivores developed powerful jaws to digest tougher plants after the mass extinctions
Credit: James Ormiston Researchers at the University of Bristol found that plant eaters diversified quickly after mass extinctions to eat ...
Species losses on isolated Panamanian island show importance of habitat connectivity
Credit: OSU photo by Randall Moore CORVALLIS, Ore. - Free from human disturbance for a century, an inland island in ...
Tufts University selected to join Association of American Universities
Credit: Tufts University Tufts University has been selected to join the Association of American Universities (AAU), a consortium of America's ...
Ankle and foot bone evolution gave prehistoric mammals a leg up
Credit: Sarah Shelley The evolution of ankle and foot bones into different shapes and sizes helped mammals adapt and thrive ...
Earthquake early warnings launch in Wash., completing West Coast-wide ShakeAlert system
Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington When the Big One hits, the first thing Washington residents notice may not be the ...
Prehistoric horses, bison shared diet
Tooth wear offers clues to how diversity of Ice Age mammals co-existed in AlaskaCredit: Andrew Higley/UC Creative University of Cincinnati ...
Study finds six degrees celsius cooling on land during the last Ice Age
Possible implications about future global warmingCredit: Photo credit: Werner Aeschbach Woods Hole, Mass. (May 12, 2021) -- Low-to-mid latitude land ...
Scientists observe rapid ozone fluctuations over the Antarctic polar vortex edge area
Credit: ZHOU Shu The polar vortex is a large area of upper-atmosphere cyclonic air circulation surrounding both poles. It is ...
NTU study of ancient corals in Indonesia reveals slowest earthquake ever recorded
Study highlights missing factors or mismodelling in global risk assessmentsCredit: NTU Singapore A 'slow-motion' earthquake lasting 32 years - the ...
Newly described horned dinosaur from New Mexico was the earliest of its kind
With a frilled head and beaked face, Menefeeceratops sealeyi lived 82 million years ago, predating its relative, TriceratopsCredit: Sergey Krasovskiy ...
Dartmouth engineering study shows renewable energy will enhance power grid’s resilience
Credit: Dakota Thompson/Dartmouth A new Dartmouth Engineering study shows that integrating renewable energy into the American Electric Power System (AEPS) ...
Protecting local water has global benefits
New paper published May 11, 2021 in Nature CommunicationsCredit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. 2019. ...
Hidden within African diamonds, a billion-plus years of deep-earth history
Scientists find a new way to tell ages of the stones, and what made themCredit: Yaakov Weiss Diamonds are sometimes ...
Stanford researchers map how people in cities get a health boost from nature
Credit: Jacob Lund / Shutterstock Your local city park may be improving your health, according to a new paper led ...
UM scientist joins team partnering with UN’s initiative to map ungulate migrations
Credit: (Photo courtesy of Celie Intering) MISSOULA - University of Montana Professor Mark Hebblewhite has joined an international team of ...
Geoscientists find that shallow wastewater injection drives deep earthquakes in Texas
Credit: Virginia Tech In a newly published paper, Virginia Tech geoscientists have found that shallow wastewater injection -- not deep ...
Ocean-bottom sediments tell a story about ancient Greenland summers
A study digs into the history of summer temperatures in southern Greenland, with findings that hold a message of caution ...
Magnetic nanoparticles pull valuable elements from water sources
Earth-friendly process may help make critical materials sourcing economically feasible in the U.S.Credit: (Graphic: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) RICHLAND, Wash.--A ...
