Tag: Earth Science

Approach aims to lower costs, construction time for building pumped storage reservoir damsCredit: Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Oct. ...

Lead isotopes a new tool for tracking coal ash

Tracer will help scientists monitor exposure risks of people near coal ash ponds and landfills or sites where ash is ...

Much of the earth is still wild, but threatened by fragmentation

Credit: Andrew Jacobson, Catawba College Half of the Earth's land surface not covered with ice remains relatively wild - but ...

$2.3 million DOE grant to advance ethanol fuel research

Grant supports mathematical modeling of biomass movement in large fermentation facilitiesCredit: Purdue University/Michael Ladisch WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Imagine trying ...

Replacing coal with gas or renewables saves billions of gallons of water

Switch to natural gas would save 12,000 billion gallons a year by 2030; switching to solar or wind power would ...

NASA catches short-lived Tropical Storm Priscilla’s landfall in Mexico

Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Tropical Storm Priscilla was short-lived because it formed on ...

NASA finds a transitioning Tropical Storm Neoguri

Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA's Terra satellite passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean ...

Large-scale afforestation of African savannas will destroy valuable ecosystems

African scientists speak out about global plans to plant trees on their continent in order to fight climate changeCredit: Wits ...

NASA finds Typhoon Bualoi rapidly intensified

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Typhoon Bualoi rapidly intensified over 24 hours and ...

NASA-NOAA satellite finds overshooting tops, gravity waves in Tropical Storm Nestor

Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/UWM-CIMSS, William Straka III NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided night-time and infrared views of developing Tropical Storm Nestor ...

NASA-NOAA satellite finds Tropical Storm Neoguri consolidating

Credit: Credit: NASA /NRL NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center with a visible image ...

Atmospheric pressure impacts greenhouse gas emissions from leaky oil and gas wells

Credit: Aaron Cahill Fluctuations in atmospheric pressure can heavily influence how much natural gas leaks from wells below the ground ...

NASA-NOAA satellite observes development of Tropical Storm Octave

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided infrared data that showed the development of Tropical Storm Octave in the ...

This blacksmith forged a sword using chemistry (video)