Depression, suicidal thoughts plague ailing coal miners, study finds
Credit: UVA Health More than a third of coal miners and former coal miners suffering from black lung disease struggle ...
Tag: Earth Science
NASA space lasers map meltwater lakes in Antarctica with striking precision
Credit: Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Dr. Kelly Brunt From above, the Antarctic Ice Sheet might look like a calm, ...
Arctic seabirds are less heat tolerant, more vulnerable to climate change
Arctic species poorly adapted for coping with rising temperatures as the Arctic continues to warmCredit: Douglas Noblet The Arctic is ...
CWRU receives $1.2M W.M. Keck Foundation grant to determine ecological factors affect the evolution of our ancestors
Professor Beverly Saylor leads interdisciplinary global group applying state-of-the art technology to answer ancient questionsCredit: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND, ...
New study helps explain ‘silent earthquakes’ along New Zealand’s North Island
Seamounts offer clue to solving a tectonic puzzleCredit: Christine Chesley, using GeoMapApp and data from William Ryan et al., Geochemistry, ...
Changes in Earth’s orbit enabled the emergence of complex life
Credit: University of Southampton Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that changes in Earth's orbit may have allowed ...
Predicting the future of cod
Hereon scientists develop new fisheries management planning tool -- fewer stocks expectedCredit: Photo: David Young via Fotolia The future of ...
Studies add to concern about climate tipping
Tipping found in models of the Gulf Stream and North American mid-latitude wind systems add to the growing concern that ...
Rethinking southeast asia’s energy plans
Scientists in Singapore are calling for revisions in planned hydropower expansions in light of the rapidly decreasing cost of solar ...
Sharp size reduction in dinosaurs that changed diet to termites
Credit: Zhixin Han/ https://www.artstation.com/xinyanjun Dinosaurs were generally huge, but a new study of the unusual alvarezsaurs show that they reduced ...
Gulf Coast ready to develop carbon storage hub
Credit: Carol M. Highsmith/ Library of Congress. The stage is set for a new carbon storage economy to emerge along ...
Ancient diamonds show Earth was primed for life’s explosion at least 2.7 billion years ago
Credit: Credit: Michael Broadley A unique study of ancient diamonds has shown that the basic chemical composition of the Earth's ...
Fossil shark scales provide a glimpse of reef predator populations before human impact
The results indicate that shark abundance in the region declined roughly three-fold since prehistoric timesCredit: ERIN DILLON, AARON O'DEA AND ...
Scientists reconstruct Mediterranean silver trade, from Trojan War to Roman Republic
Credit: We are grateful to L. E. Stager and D. Master, directors of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon, and ...
Goldfinder: scientists discover why we can find gold at all
Credit: Maria Kokh and Gleb Pokrovski Why are gold deposits found at all? Gold is famously unreactive, and there seems ...
The City of David and the sharks’ teeth mystery
Credit: Omri Lernau Scientists have found an unexplained cache of fossilised shark teeth in an area where there should be ...
Unusual currents explain mysterious red crab strandings
New findings suggest that abnormal ocean currents cause the occasional appearance of pelagic red crabs outside their native rangeCredit: Photo ...
The missing ocean plastic sink: Gone with the rivers
The mysterious ocean plastic sinkCredit: CEFREM/UPVD Plastics are a growing problem for natural ecosystems around the globe, and in particular ...
Rethinking plastics
UD scientists and collaborators issue urgent call to action on plastics pollutionCredit: Graphics by Jeffrey C. Chase People lived without ...
Cleaner air has boosted US corn and soybean yields, Stanford-led research shows
Credit: Kelly Sikkema / Unsplash A key factor in America's prodigious agricultural output turns out to be something farmers can ...
