Tag: Earth Science

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Strong wind shear has been the undoing of Tropical Storm Douglas. NASA's Terra satellite provided infrared data ...

Lead released in Notre Dame Cathedral fire detected in Parisian honey

Credit: PCIGR Elevated levels of lead have been found in samples of honey from hives downwind of the Notre Dame ...

How stony-iron meteorites form

SAPHiR multi-anvil press solves mystery of the solar systemCredit: Dr. Nicolas P. Walte / TUM Meteorites give us insight into ...

Astronomers pinpoint the best place on Earth for a telescope: High on a frigid Antarctic plateau

Credit: Zhaohui Shang au, could offer the clearest view on Earth of the stars at night, according to new research ...

COVID-19 provides rare opportunities for studying natural and human systems

Researchers at Stanford and other institutions hypothesize outcomes of the pandemic's unprecedented socioeconomic disruption and outline research priorities for advancing ...

Influx of electric vehicles accelerates need for grid planning

For grid reliability, PNNL study shows advance planning and smart EV charging strategies could help cities and utilities smooth out ...

Studying interactions between ground-nesting bees and soils

Credit: Jennifer Fedenko Many living creatures live in soil. Though their sizes range from microscopic soil microbes to larger animals ...

NASA’s Terra Satellite finds wind shear weakening Tropical Storm Douglas

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Former Hurricane Douglas has encountered strong wind shear after passing the Hawaiian Islands and has now weakened ...

Deep sea microbes dormant for 100 million years are hungry and ready to multiply

Credit: Image: JAMSTEC KINGSTON, R.I., -- July 28, 2020 -- For decades, scientists have gathered ancient sediment samples from below ...

New scenario for the India-Asia collision dynamics

Credit: ©Science China Press To elucidate the timing, location and geodynamic models of the India-Asia collision, Yuan and colleagues conducted ...

To end King Coal’s reign, must his most loyal subjects get paid?

Compensating phase-out losers for a just transitionCredit: University of Sussex The huge task of phasing out coal requires a detailed ...

Massive seagrass die-off leads to widespread erosion in a California estuary

Following an unprecedented estuary-wide collapse of the seagrasses in Morro Bay, scientists documented extensive erosion and geomorphological changes, which may ...

Scientists reveal an explosive secret hidden beneath seemingly trustworthy volcanoes

Credit: Gabriel Salazar, La Pinta Yacht Expedition. An international team of volcanologists working on remote islands in the Galápagos Archipelago ...

Scientists record rapid carbon loss from warming peatlands