Tag: Earth Science

BU researchers used NASA satellite imaging data to analyze 30 years of Earth's northern forests and found that fires are ...

Combining solar panels and lamb grazing increases land productivity, study finds

Credit: Sean Nealon, Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Land productivity could be greatly increased by combining sheep grazing and ...

First Australian populations followed footpath ‘superhighways’ across the continent

Credit: Megan Hotchkiss Davidson/Sandia National Laboratories The best path across the desert is rarely the straightest. For the first human ...

Methane release rapidly increases in the wake of the melting ice sheets

Credit: Giuliana Panieri Ice ages are not that easy to define. It may sound intuitive that an ice age represents ...

Social media and science show how ship’s plastic cargo dispersed from Florida to Norway

Credit: Tracey Williams, Lost at Sea Project A ship's container lost overboard in the North Atlantic has resulted in printer ...

UC San Diego engineering professor solves deep earthquake mystery

A University of California San Diego engineering professor has solved one of the biggest mysteries in geophysics: What causes deep-focus ...

Using cosmic-ray neutron bursts to understand gamma-ray bursts from lightning

An 'accidental discovery' confirms what simulations showCredit: Jordan Goodman, HAWC Collaboration (NSF.gov) LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April 28, 2021--Analysis of data ...

Causes of extreme weather and climate events in China during 2020/21

Credit: Chunzai Wang During the summer of 2020, especially June and July, periods of extreme heavy rainfall occurred in China's ...

Scientists don spacesuits to explore Hawaiian lava tubes as if they were on Mars

Credit: HI-SEAS MUNICH -- Imagine trying to pick up a pebble or scrape microbes off a cave wall in a ...

New duckbilled dinosaur discovered in Japan

Paleontologists find second hadrosaurid speciesCredit: Artwork by Masato Hattori. DALLAS (SMU) - An international team of paleontologists has identified a ...

Solar-powered desalination unit shows great promise

Scientists develop a low-cost, highly efficient technique that uses solar energy to remove salt from seawater, producing safe drinking water.Credit: ...

Three University of Georgia faculty members elected to National Academy of Sciences

Mary Ann Moran, Gregory H. Robinson and J. Marshall Shepherd recognized for extraordinary scientific achievementCredit: UGA Three distinguished faculty members ...

Study first to explore combined impacts of fishing and ocean warming on fish populations

Warming and fishing affecting survival of small fishCredit: Harrison Haines The combined effect of rapid ocean warming and the practice ...

National lab, municipal power utility test energy storage for small hydropower generation