Tag: Earth Science

June 12, 2020

Experts highlight the concentrations of metals in the River Guadiamar (south of Spain) twenty years after the disaster at the ...

CABI confirms presence of devastating date pest the red palm weevil on Socotra Island

June 11, 2020

CABI scientist Dr Arne Witt has led an international team of researchers who have confirmed for the first time the ...

Could we run out of sand? Scientists adjust how grains are measured

June 11, 2020

New models will help manage impacts of sea-level rise on vulnerable coastCredit: University of Sydney Humans see sand as an ...

Which factors control the height of mountains?

June 11, 2020

A study in Nature with a surprising finding: It is not erosionCredit: NASA; Astronaut photograph ISS059-E-517 Which forces and mechanisms ...

Skoltech researchers use machine learning to aid oil production

Credit: Pavel Odinev / Skoltech Skoltech scientists and their industry colleagues have found a way to use machine learning to ...

Proposed seismic surveys in Arctic Refuge likely to cause lasting damage

Credit: Photo by Matt Nolan Winter vehicle travel can cause long-lasting damage to the tundra, according to a new paper ...

NASA finds post-tropical depression Cristobal soaking the Great Lakes

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL NASA's GPM satellite gathered data on what is now Post-Tropical Cyclone Cristobal and revealed some areas of ...

Extinct camelids reveal insights about North America’s ancient savannas

Credit: Christine Janis A new study looking at extinct camelids - ancestors of today's camels and llamas - tells the ...

Women generate lower travel-related greenhouse gas emissions, NZ study finds

Credit: University of Otago Women use more diverse modes of travel and generate lower greenhouse gas emissions than men, despite ...

Antarctic sea-ice models improve for the next IPCC report

Credit: Dave Allen The world of climate modeling is complex, requiring an enormous amount of coordination and collaboration to produce. ...

Falling clean energy costs can provide opportunity to boost climate action during COVID-19 recovery: UN

184 GW of clean power capacity added in 2019, up 12% from GW added in 2018; New capacity delivered with ...

Living near oil and gas wells may increase preterm birth risk

Credit: Photo credit: David Gonzalez Living in close proximity to oil and gas operations may increase the risk of preterm ...

Volcanic activity and changes in Earth’s mantle were key to rise of atmospheric oxygen

Credit: David Catling/University of Washington Oxygen first accumulated in the Earth's atmosphere about 2.4 billion years ago, during the Great ...

Study on shorebirds suggests that when conserving species, not all land is equal

Credit: (Photo by Tong Mu, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) Princeton University researchers may have solved a long-standing mystery ...

NASA tracks Tropical Depression Cristobal moving toward Great Lakes

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Once a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico, now a tropical depression in the Mississippi Valley, ...

Study proves that magma chambers can be totally molten

The study challenges a recently-emerged paradigm that magma chambers are huge masses of crystals with just a very small amount ...

New solutions for fabric biogas storage systems

At a test plant, KIT researchers studied how fabric biogas storage systems can be improvedCredit: Photo: Rosemarie Wagner, KIT Biogas ...

New hints of volcanism under the heart of northern Europe

Credit: Corné Kreemer / University of Nevada, Reno Scientists have discovered new evidence for active volcanism next door to some ...

Nature’s ‘slow lanes’ offer hope for species feeling heat of climate change

Credit: Photo by Garrett Meigs, OSU College of Forestry CORVALLIS, Ore. - Pockets of landscape less prone than adjacent areas ...

Gabriel honored with Charles F. Richter Early Career Award