Tag: Earth Science

June 5, 2019

Stanford study shows how hydrothermal vents fuel massive phytoplankton blooms -- and possible hotspots for carbon storage Researchers at Stanford ...

NASA-NOAA satellite sees system 91L’s eeach into the western gulf of Mexico

Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) System 91L is an area of tropical low pressure ...

New approach optimizes use of future wave electricity generators during disaster

Variational calculus technique shows the fastest way to provide enough electricity to restart local power grids hit by hurricanes through ...

Estimating the wear and tear of ice on structures over coming decades or even centuries

To face the challenges of a warming climate, a new technique determines the long-term effects of moving Arctic ice on ...

The epic search for oldest ice in Antarctica is starting

Credit: Robert Mulvaney, Massimo Frezzotti On 1st June 2019 the European Beyond EPICA Oldest Ice Core project started with the ...

Supercomputing dynamic earthquake rupture models

NSF XSEDE resources Stampede, Stampede2, comet support multi-fault earthquake researchThis video shows a simulation of a dynamic rupture model. The ...

Geoscience data group urges all scientific disciplines to make data open and accessible

WASHINGTON -- Institutions, science funders, data repositories, publishers, researchers and scientific societies from all scientific disciplines must work together to ...

New center at the University of Copenhagen to predict climate tipping points

Current climate models are unable to predict sudden and violent changes to climate, known as tipping points. This is a ...

Diets of Latinos and blacks have greatest environmental impact per dollar spent on food

Despite spending less than white households on food overall, black and Latino households have more impact on the environment per ...

NASA sees strong storms in developing gulf system 91L

Credit: NASA/NRL NASA's Aqua satellite used infrared light to analyze the strength of storms in the developing low pressure area ...

Evidence of multiple unmonitored coal ash spills found in N.C. lake

New evidence of unmonitored and unreported coal ash spills in a North Carolina lake highlights the risk of similar spills ...

Ecosystem service mapping and assessment: Research collection on methods and applications

EU Horizon 2020 project ESMERALDA shares methods, data, applications and research insights in a comprehensive open science special issueCredit: ESMERALDA ...

Harmful algal blooms research — Fulbright US Scholar Award to New Zealand

Credit: Virginia Tech The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced that David Schmale, ...

Improvements in water quality could reduce ecological impact of climate change on rivers

Efforts to improve water quality of rivers could off-set the impact of climate change on river invertebrates Improvements in water ...

Remote sensing of toxic algal blooms

Algal blooms in the Red Sea can be detected with a new method that accounts for dust storms and aerosolsCredit: ...

Solving the entrainment puzzle

EU supports cloud studies in Leipzig as part of Marie Sklodowska Curie ActionsCredit: Tilo Arnhold, TROPOS Leipzig. An important contribution ...

2017 North Korean nuclear test 10 times larger than previous tests, new study finds

Credit: Korean Central News Agency WASHINGTON-- North Korea detonated a nuclear device in 2017 equivalent to about 250 kilotons of ...

Feathers came first, then birds

Credit: Reconstruction by Yuan Zhang. New research, led by the University of Bristol, suggests that feathers arose 100 million years ...

Pop-up parks deliver big benefits in small spaces

Small greenspaces provide city dwellers opportunities to connect with nature and can serve as habitat refuges that help protect urban ...

UNH researchers find slowdown in Earth’s temps stabilized nature’s calendar