Tag: Earth Science

Credit: NASA/NRL Visible imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed Tropical Cyclone Fani appeared more organized than the previous day. On ...

Rapid permafrost thaw unrecognized threat to landscape, global warming researcher warns

Credit: Carolyn Gibson, University of Guelph PhD student A "sleeping giant" hidden in permafrost soils in Canada and other northern ...

NASA instrument to more accurately measure ozone discovered by ‘accident’

Credit: NASA/W. Hrybyk NASA research scientist Tom Hanisco set out to build an instrument capable of measuring a short-lived chemical ...

Almost half of World Heritage sites could lose their glaciers by 2100

Credit: IUCN/Martin Price WASHINGTON-- Glaciers are set to disappear completely from almost half of World Heritage sites if business-as-usual emissions ...

New mathematical approach tested for the search of flight MH370

International team of researchers use data from research buoys to simulate the crash site's location based on how debris drifts ...

Science, health journalists receive research fellowships from Marine Biological Laboratory

April 29, 2019

Credit: Tara Haelle WOODS HOLE, Mass. - Twelve journalists have been awarded Logan Science Journalism Fellowships from the Marine Biological ...

NASA shows winds causing Tropical Cyclone Lorna’s demise

April 29, 2019

Credit: NASA/NRL NASA's Aqua satellite saw Tropical Cyclone Lorna was being torn apart by strong northwesterly wind shear in the ...

NASA looks at Tropical Storm Fani’s rainfall rates

April 29, 2019

Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL Tropical Storm Fani formed in the Northern Indian Ocean over the weekend of April 27 and 28. The ...

Princeton geoscientists find new fallout from ‘the collision that changed the world’

A Princeton-led research team has created an unprecedented record of ocean nitrogen and oxygen levels from 70 million years ago ...

Ready for refit: Navy-owned research vessel getting suped-up for service

Credit: Photo by Scripps Institution of Oceanography ARLINGTON, Va.--Like a classic car being restored, the research vessel (R/V) Roger Revelle ...

NASA’s Aqua satellite tracks Tropical Cyclone Lorna

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL As Tropical Storm Lorna continued moving in a southerly direction in the Southeastern Indian Ocean, NASA's Aqua ...

NASA sees remnants of Tropical Cyclone Kenneth over northern Mozambique

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA's Aqua satellite provided a visible image of ...

Studies link earthquakes to fracking in the central and eastern US

Small earthquakes in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Oklahoma and Texas can be linked to hydraulic fracturing wells in those regions, ...

Study: Deep-ocean creatures living a ‘feast-or-famine’ existence because of energy fluxes

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Scientists for the first time have tracked how much energy from plants and animals at the surface ...

NASA-NOAA satellite catches intense Tropical Cyclone Kenneth make landfall in northern Mozambique

Credit: NASA/NOAA/ University of Wisconsin - Madison, SSES-CIMSS, William Straka III Mozambique is still recovering from deadly Tropical Cyclone Idai, ...

NASA finds a more circular Tropical Cyclone Lorna

Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Southern Indian Ocean and captured a visible image of what appeared ...

33-year study shows increasing ocean winds and wave heights

Credit: Professor Ian Young Extreme ocean winds and wave heights are increasing around the globe, with the largest rise occurring ...

Diamonds reveal how continents are stabilized, key to Earth’s habitability

The longevity of Earth's continents in the face of destructive tectonic activity is an essential geologic backdrop for the emergence ...

Researchers trace 3,000 years of monsoons through shell fossils

Credit: Katsura Yamada, Shinshu University, Japan The tiny shells at the bottom of Lake Nakaumi in southwest Japan may contain ...

Early melting of winter snowfall advances the Arctic springtime