NASA catches formation of Tropical Cyclone Kenneth near Aldabra
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Visible satellite imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed the formation of Tropical Storm Kenneth in the Southern ...
Tag: Earth Science
Major scientific meeting on sound next month in Louisville
The Acoustical Society of America will gather to reveal and discuss the latest in the science of sound May 13-17, ...
From coal to gas: How the shift can help stabilize climate change
Benefits of phasing out coal outweigh risks, new study finds Led by Katsumasa Tanaka, a senior climate risk researcher at ...
How does wildlife fare after fires?
La Trobe research in Wildlife Research journal looks at how wildlife recolonises burnt land Fire ecologists and wildlife specialists at ...
Rewriting the textbook on fossil fuels: New technologies help unravel nature’s methane recipes
Not all methane originated in buried, decayed remains of ancient life; some deep hydrocarbons aren't conventional 'fossil fuels' as popularly ...
Data mining digs up hidden clues to major California earthquake triggers
Comprehensive new earthquake catalog includes 10 times more quakes than previously identified, with a more detailed picture of stresses and ...
Scientists identify almost 2 million previously ‘hidden’ earthquakes
A closer look at seismic data from 2008-17 expands Southern California's earthquake catalog by a factor of 10Credit: Caltech Pouring ...
Is it really ‘dry clean only’? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, April 18, 2019 -- Knowing the do's and don'ts of washing your clothes can ...
Ocean circulation likely to blame for severity of 2018 red tide
Credit: University of South Florida ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (April 18, 2019)- The harmful algae that causes red tide is currently ...
Is one toe really better than three? How horse’ legs evolved for travel rather than speed
Palaeobiologists from the University of Bristol and Howard University (USA) have uncovered new evidence that suggests that horses' legs have ...
Amazonian soils mapped using indicator species
Credit: Gabriela Zuquim Understanding the ecology and distributions of species in Amazonia is hampered by lack of information about environmental ...
Small fossils with big applications — the BP Gulf of Mexico time scale
New study published in Geological Society of America Bulletin Boulder, Colo., USA: Geologic time scales are critical to understanding the ...
How inland waters ‘breathe’ carbon — and what it means for global systems
Study reveals key relationship between storm events, ecology, and topography in carbon 'evasion' For a long time, scientists evaluating the ...
What Earth’s gravity reveals about climate change
Researchers take stock of the GRACE satellite mission in Nature Climate ChangeCredit: AIRBUS/GFZ On March 17, 2002, the German-US satellite ...
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