Tag: Earth Science

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Southern ...

Renewables are a better investment than carbon capture for tackling climate change

Solar panels and wind turbines coupled with energy storage offer a better hope for tackling climate change than trying to ...

Laying the ground for robotic strategies in environmental protection

Sheet pile driving robot autonomously builds erosion barriers from interlocking metal sheets in natural terrain, and robot swarms could be ...

Air temperatures in the Arctic are driving system change

Credit: UAF photo by Todd Paris A new paper shows that air temperature is the "smoking gun" behind climate change ...

CIFAR announces new research programs and AI Chairs

New portfolio takes risks, convenes extraordinary minds to address science and humanity's most important questions Top scientists and scholars from ...

The carbon offset market: Leveraging forest carbon’s value in the Brazilian Amazon

April 7, 2019

A government-run program implements a new model for carbon credits As companies seek and are required to reduce their greenhouse ...

Science-based guidelines for building a bee-friendly landscape

Credit: Bernadette M. Mach & Daniel A. Potter, University of Kentucky St. Paul, MN (April, 2019)--Bees are critical members of ...

Australian Murray River habitat restoration increases native fish populations

Credit: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eap.1882 Dubbed the 'honeypot effect' -- a team of scientists from around Australia have shown that providing woody habitat, ...

Manganese nodules: Desired mineral resource and important habitat

The JPIO project MiningImpact investigates deep-sea ecosystems in the central Pacific OceanCredit: Steffen Niemann The area to be investigated by ...

Large Antarctic Ice Shelf, home to a UK research station, is about to break apart

A large section of the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica, which is home to the British Antarctic Survey's Halley Research ...

Warnings up in Western Australia as Suomi NPP satellite views Tropical Cyclone 23S

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). Tropical Cyclone 23S has developed north of the ...

Understanding microbial communities in fractured shales goal of NSF-sponsored project

April 4, 2019

Taking a deep dive into metabolic pathways introduced undergroundCredit: Mike Wilkins/Colorado State University Many invisible microbes like bacteria, fungi and ...

Jurassic crocodile discovery sheds light on reptiles’ family tree

April 4, 2019

Ancient fossil named as new speciesCredit: Joschua Knüppe A newly identified species of 150 million-year-old marine crocodile has given insights ...

Ecological Society of America announces 2019 Fellows