1.2M NSF grant provides research opportunities for underserved students
Credit: Peter Means for Virginia Tech Many great scientific collaborations have existed throughout history: Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary ...
Tag: Earth Science
NASA finds heavy rain potential in Tropical Cyclone Blake
Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson NASA's Aqua satellite provided a near visible image and analyzed the cloud top temperatures in Tropical ...
Grower citizen science project uses collaboration to improve soil health
Credit: Natasja van Gestel West Texas cotton growers face many environmental challenges, including rising temperatures, higher temperature extremes, less rainfall, ...
Study shows animal life thriving around Fukushima
Researchers document more than 20 species in nuclear accident zoneCredit: UGA Nearly a decade after the nuclear accident in Fukushima, ...
Formation of a huge underwater volcano offshore the Comoros
Seismologists of the GFZ observe processes in the upper mantle for the first time before the formation of an enormous ...
Researchers use remote sensing to estimate nitrogen deposition in North China
Credit: Zhen Wang Northern China, a hotspot of air pollution, has always been an area of great interest to study ...
Brassica crops best for crop rotation and soil health in potato production systems
Credit: Robert Larkin Crop rotation is vital to any crop production system. Rotating crops maintains crop productivity and soil health ...
Tests measure solar panel performance beyond established standards
In a series of tests over five years, key parameters in solar panel performance were measured, producing data for better ...
A new study finds research gaps in environmental science disciplines across the Arctic
Harsh environments remain poorly sampledCredit: Julia Kemppinen Global warming is driving rapid environmental change in the Arctic. "To understand these ...
New study estimates the global extent of river ice loss as Earth warms
This decline will have economic and environmental consequencesCredit: Courtesy Landsat imagery/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and U.S. Geological Survey More ...
NASA finds Tropical Storm Calvinia moving away from Mauritius
Credit: NASA Worldview Visible imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite on Dec. 31 revealed that Tropical Cyclone Calvinia had moved south ...
NASA finds a weaker Sarai now a depression
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with an image ...
How fish fins evolved just before the transition to land
Credit: Matt Wood Research on fossilized fish from the late Devonian period, roughly 375 million years ago, details the evolution ...
Life could have emerged from lakes with high phosphorus
Credit: Matthew Dillon/Flickr Life as we know it requires phosphorus. It's one of the six main chemical elements of life, ...
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