Tag: Earth Science

The winning entry of the Open Research Challenge (ORC) offers a solution for cleaning paleontological dataCredit: Picture: Joe Flannery Sutherland ...

How do slow anomalies beneath subducting slabs affect giant megathrust earthquakes?

Credit: IOCAS Earthquakes and volcanoes in subduction zones may cause great human catastrophe. Previous studies on subduction zone structure and ...

Airports could generate enough solar energy to power a city: Study

Australian airports are ideal hosts for large-scale solar installationsCredit: RMIT University A new study has found Australia's government-owned airports could ...

New research uncovers continental crust emerged 500 million years earlier than thought

Credit: Simone Marchi/SwRI MUNICH -- The first emergence and persistence of continental crust on Earth during the Archaean (4 billion ...

Mapping the path to rewilding: the importance of landscape

Credit: Credit: David Mencin via Imaggeo MUNICH -- Rewilding--a hands-off approach to restoring and protecting biodiversity--is increasingly employed across the ...

Professor Amro M. Farid receives 2021 Fulbright Scholar Award to Australia

Credit: Robert Gill/Dartmouth Amro M. Farid, associate professor of engineering at Dartmouth and research affiliate in the department of mechanical ...

US and Iranian researchers collaborate on Lake Urmia restoration

Credit: Somayeh Sima In a rare exchange, scientists and water resources engineers from Iran and Utah are collaborating on a ...

Fiber optic cable monitors microseismicity in Antarctica

Credit: Michael Kendall/ University of Oxford At the Seismological Society of America's 2021 Annual Meeting, researchers shared how they are ...

Response options should be at the center of climate risk assessment and management

Credit: Simpson et al. 2021 (please hyperlink to paper) A team of researchers from the Africa Climate and Development Initiative ...

Quantifying the level of pollution in marinas

Credit: Universidad de Sevilla An interdisciplinary group of Spanish scientists, bringing together biologists and chemists from the Universities of Seville, ...

Climate has shifted the axis of the Earth

Credit: Credit: Deng et al (2021) Geophysical Research Letters/AGU WASHINGTON-- Glacial melting due to global warming is likely the cause ...

Red Sea is no longer a baby ocean

Hidden structures reveal 13 million years of seafloor spreadingCredit: GEOMAR It is 2,250 kilometers long, but only 355 kilometers wide ...

Hungry fruit flies are extreme ultramarathon fliers

April 22, 2021

In search of food, a fly can travel six million times its body lengthCredit: Floris van Breugel In 2005, an ...

Here comes the sun: Tethered-balloon tests ensure safety of new solar-power technology