Tag: Earth Science

Credit: University of Stirling The environmental benefits of taller, shrubbier tundra plants in the Arctic may be overstated, according to ...

Typhoon changed earthquake patterns

Intensive erosion influenced seismicityCredit: NASA/LANDSAT The Earth's crust is under constant stress. Every now and then this stress is discharged ...

Cause of abnormal groundwater rise after large earthquake

How a mountain aquifer affected the local hydrological environment after a large earthquakePrior to the earthquake, Kumamoto City area groundwater ...

In the Arctic, spring snowmelt triggers fresh CO2 production

The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the world and snowmelt is speeding it up with rapid soil ...

Mini-‘Marsquakes’ measured by InSight lander show effects of sun and wind

Kyushu University research based on NASA InSight Martian lander seismometer data reveals different sources of different types and frequencies of ...

Geologists identify deep-earth structures that may signal hidden metal lodes

Finding new giant copper, lead, zinc deposits could fuel green infrastructureCredit: Adapted from Hoggard et al., Nature Geoscience, 2020 If ...

NASA catches a short-lived Eastern Pacific Depression 4E

Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Tropical Depression 4E formed late on June 29 and ...

Ohio University professor, alum publish paper on record warming of the South Pole

The South Pole has been warming at more than three times the global average over the past 30 yearsCredit: Courtesy ...

Microplastic pollution accumulates heavily in coastal areas such as fjords and estuaries

Credit: Peter T. Harris, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111398 Microplastic pollution in marine environments is concentrated most highly in coastal habitats, especially fjords and ...

Study finds that plastic recycling from europe being dumped in Asian waters

Up to 31% of plastic exported for recycling not recycled at allCredit: Shutterstock/NUI Galway New research from NUI Galway and ...

NASA-NOAA satellite animation shows the end of Tropical Cyclone Boris

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite imagery provided a look ...

3D magnetotelluric imaging reveals magma recharging beneath Weishan volcano

Credit: GAO Ji et al. A collaborative research team from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the ...

The magnetic history of ice

The findings could help us understand the history of other bodies in our solar systemCredit: Weizmann Institute of Science The ...

First measurement of spin-orbit alignment on planet Beta Pictoris b

Credit: Stefan Kraus Astronomers have made the first measurement of spin-orbit alignment for a distant 'super-Jupiter' planet, demonstrating a technique ...

Agricultural fires in central Africa light up in Suomi NPP satellite image

Credit: NASA image courtesy Worldview Earth Data operated by the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Science Data and Information System ...

NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite analyzes Saharan dust aerosol blanket

Credit: Credits: NASA/NOAA, Colin Seftor Dust storms from Africa's Saharan Desert traveling across the Atlantic Ocean are nothing new, but ...

FSU News: MagLab geochemists solve mystery of Earth’s vanishing crust

Credit: Caroline McNiel/National MagLab TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Thank goodness for the Earth's crust: It is, after all, that solid, outermost ...

NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite sees Tropical Storm Boris form

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with visible ...

WHOI researcher dives to Challenger Deep

Ying-Tsong Lin is the 12th person in history and the first person of Asian descent to visit ocean's deepest seafloorCredit: ...

Tiny Japanese dinosaur eggs help unscramble Cretaceous ecosystem