Human activity on rivers outpaces, compounds effects of climate change
Credit: Photo courtesy Jim Best CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The livelihoods of millions of people living along the world's biggest river ...
Tag: Earth Science
Geologists shed light on the tibetan plateau origin puzzle: an open-and-shut perspective
Scientists suggest a new 'opening-closing' tectonic theory to explain the origin of the Tibetan PlateauCredit: Earth Science Frontiers Earth's geographical ...
New Argentine fossils uncover history of celebrated conifer group
Credit: Gabriella Rossetto-Harris, Penn State Newly unearthed, surprisingly well-preserved conifer fossils from Patagonia, Argentina, show that an endangered and celebrated ...
RV Polarstern returns to the MOSAiC floe
New team continues fieldwork in the ArcticCredit: Photo: Alfred Wegener Institute / Lisa Grosfeld After a month's absence, on 17 ...
Fish fossils become buried treasure
Fossilized fish could indicate rich deposits of valuable rare-earth metalsCredit: © 2020 Ohta et al. Rare metals crucial to green ...
Arctic Ocean acidification worse than previously expected
Credit: © National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA The Arctic Ocean will take up more CO2 over the 21st century ...
Food Technology: Insect Flours
Researchers Improve Baking Properties of Insect FloursCredit: Photo: Markus Breig, KIT According to estimates of the United Nations Food and ...
Geoscientists create deeper look at processes below Earth’s surface with 3D images
Credit: University of Texas at Dallas Geoscientists at The University of Texas at Dallas recently used massive amounts of earthquake ...
Stocks of vulnerable carbon twice as high where permafrost subsidence is factored in
Credit: Victor Leshyk, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society New research from a team at Northern Arizona University suggests that ...
NIST adds new ‘fingerprints’ to chemical identification database
The NIST Mass Spectral Library has expanded to include new human and plant metabolites, variants of fentanyl and other synthetic ...
Crop residue decisions affect soil life
Credit: Rachel Schutte In some ways, farming is like cooking. Cooking would be much easier if we could leave the ...
Mangroves at risk of collapse if emissions not reduced by 2050, international scientists predict
Credit: Dr Nicole Khan An international research team comprising scientists from the University of Hong Kong, the Nanyang Technological University, ...
New species extinction target proposed for global nature rescue plan
Scientists demand prominent target to lower extinction rates, comparable to the 2-degree climate targetCredit: Timo Deible, Karlsruhe Zoo The 10-year ...
New Editor-in-Chief appointed for Journal of Photonics for Energy
Sean Shaheen will lead the journal beginning in July 2020Credit: SPIE BELLINGHAM, Washington - On 1 July, Sean Shaheen, associate ...
Taking a landslide’s temperature to avert catastrophe
A new model for deep-seated landslides that takes into account the temperature of a thin, unstable layer of clay could ...
Rochester researchers unlock clues to a dramatic chapter of Earth’s geological history
Credit: Akshay Mehra / Princeton Grinder Lab photo Imagine Earth completely covered in ice. While it's hard to picture all ...
NASA follows Tropical Storm Nuri’s path
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview An animation of four days of imagery from NASA's Terra satellite showed the progression and landfall ...
The many lifetimes of plastics
Infographics strive to give us a sense of how long plastic goods will last in the environment but is this ...
Protecting bays from ocean acidification
UD research shows that submerged vegetation helps to offset Chesapeake Bay acidificationCredit: Photo courtesy of Wei-Jun Cai and Jeremy Testa ...
NASA catches development of Tropical Cyclone Nuri in South China Sea
Credit: NASA/Worldview A low-pressure system that developed in the Philippine Sea and tracked over the central Philippines has moved into ...
