Study reveals the workings of nature’s own earthquake blocker
Findings point way toward more detailed earthquake predictionsCredit: Jamie Howarth/Victoria University of Wellington A new study finds a naturally occurring ...
Tag: Earth Science
Ice cap study promises new prospects for accurate local climate projections
Credit: Christian Panton New, detailed study of the Renland Ice Cap offers the possibility of modelling other smaller ice caps ...
Human land-use and climate change will have significant impact on animal genetic diversity
Credit: Colourbox. Over the last 200 years, researchers have worked towards understanding the global distribution of species and ecosystems. But ...
As plant/animal diversity wanes, is microbial life changing too? A perilously ‘profound Ignorance’
The unknown direction and pace of change in microbial -- including viral -- biodiversity may have deep consequences for all ...
New amphibious centipede species discovered in Okinawa and Taiwan
Godly proportions for rare jade Scolopendra named after local gods, one of the largest arthropods in JapanCredit: Tokyo Metropolitan University ...
A new drought monitoring approach: Vector Projection Analysis (VPA)
Credit: UNIST A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has proposed a satellite-aided drought monitoring method that can adequately represent ...
Are our oil and gas pipelines safe during an earthquake?
The research shows that current methods used for calculating stress received by the underground pipelines during an earthquake are incorrect.Credit: ...
Long-term consequences of CO2 emissions
Oxygen in the ocean will continue to decrease for many centuriesCredit: C. Kersten, modified from A. Oschlies, 2021, GEOMAR. The ...
Sunlight to solve the world’s clean water crisis
Credit: University of South Australia Researchers at UniSA have developed a cost-effective technique that could deliver safe drinking water to ...
A rich marine algal ecosystem 600 million years earlier than previously thought
Biomarker evidence from fossilised algae remainsCredit: © Don E. Canfield/University of Southern Denmark The first photosynthetic oxygen-producing organisms on Earth ...
Environmental protection could benefit from ‘micro’ as well as ‘macro’ thinking
Credit: Luke Holman Scientists at the University of Southampton have conducted a study that highlights the importance of studying a ...
Making waves in oceanography
New research finds upwelling defies prior theoriesCredit: Jochen Kaempf, Flinders University A new scientific discovery in Australia by Flinders University ...
New evidence regarding emerald production in Roman Egypt coming from Wadi Sikait
Resuming the archaeological season in the Egyptian Eastern Desert provides proof of Roman emerald minesCredit: Authors "New evidence of the ...
Channel migration plays leading role in river network evolution, study finds
Credit: Graphic courtesy Jeffrey Kwang A new study by former University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign graduate student Jeffrey Kwang, now at ...
Ocean temperature reconstructed over the last 700,000 years
Credit: Daniel Baggenstos Bern's ice core researchers were already able to demonstrate in 2008 how the concentration of CO2 in ...
Indigenous land-use reduced catastrophic wildfires on the Fish Lake Plateau
Credit: S. Yoshi Maezumi If you were to visit the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau a thousand years ago, you'd ...
Reducing ocean acidification by removing CO2: Two targets for cutting-edge research
Credit: Butenschön et al., 2021 Is it possible to simultaneously address the increase of the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) ...
Megafauna extinction mystery – size isn’t everything
Credit: Illustration by Gabriel Ugueto Ancient clues, in the shape of fossils and archaeological evidence of varying quality scattered across ...
Partial shade from solar panels increase abundance of flowers in late summer
Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - A new study by Oregon State University researchers found that shade provided by ...
Ancient ammonoids’ shell designs may have aided buoyancy control
Researchers use 3-D-printed models to explore fractal-like interior shell patternsCredit: David Peterman Ammonoids, ancestors of today's octopus, squid and cuttlefish, ...
