Colossal oysters have disappeared from Florida’s ‘most pristine’ coastlines
Credit: University of South Florida TAMPA, Fla. (February 5, 2020)- Hundreds of years ago, colossal oysters were commonplace across much ...
Tag: Earth Science
Global cooling after nuclear war would harm ocean life
Seafood production also may be impacted by increased acidificationCredit: NOAA Fisheries/Morgan Winston A nuclear war that cooled Earth could worsen ...
Forest soils recovering from effects of acid rain
Credit: Jennifer Knoepp Before the United States 1970 Clean Air Act, rainfall all over the country was acidic. As precipitation ...
Peeking at the plumbing of one of the Aleutian’s most-active volcanoes
A new approach to analyzing seismic data reveals deep vertical zones of low seismic velocity in the plumbing system underlying ...
Southern Illinois’ Len Small levee likely to fail even if repaired, study says
Credit: Ken Olson, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Alexander County sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio ...
New thalattosaur species discovered in Southeast Alaska
Gunakadeit joseeae is the most complete thalattosaur ever found in North AmericaCredit: Artwork by Ray Troll ©2020 Scientists at the ...
UT scientists’ fossil-finding board game is a success in classrooms
Credit: Rowan Martindale/ The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences Becoming a fossil is the ultimate game ...
Australia’s orroral valley fire consumes over 155,000 acres in a week
Credit: NASA NASA's Terra satellite saw yet another fire, known as the Orroral Valley Fire, break out in the Canberra ...
US sea-level report cards: 2019 data adds to trend in acceleration
Water levels at 25 of 32 stations rose at higher rate than in 2018Credit: Virginia Institute of Marine Science The ...
How the development of skulls and beaks made Darwin’s finches one of the most diverse species
Credit: Guillermo Navalon Darwin's finches are among the most celebrated examples of adaptive radiation in the evolution of modern vertebrates ...
Vast amounts of valuable energy, nutrients, water lost in world’s fast-rising wastewater streams
Enough energy to power all households in the USA and Mexico; enough nutrients to meet ~13% of world fertilizer needs; ...
World Wetlands Day: Fostering global biodiversity and mitigating climate change
Interactive story maps illustrate valuable contributions Maritime salt marshes make to our planetCredit: Photo credit: O. Lucanus Though they make ...
Fed grant backs Rice earthquake research
Geologist Melodie French wins National Science Foundation CAREER AwardCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 31, 2020) - Rice University ...
New research shows sustainability can be a selling point for new ingredients
Credit: University of Nottingham The first UK consumer study on the use of Bambara Groundnut as an ingredient in products ...
Coalition to study impact of sea-level rise, climate change on bays and estuaries
Credit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science/Cheryl Nemazie CAMBRIDGE, MD (January 30, 2020)-- The University of Maryland Center for ...
Helsinki declaration on planetary health calls for commitment from the EU
Credit: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare Scientific evidence shows that human activities impact global warming, biodiversity loss, land degradation, ...
Scientists find far higher than expected rate of underwater glacial melting
Robotic kayaks were used to track meltwaterCredit: David Sutherland/University of Oregon Tidewater glaciers, the massive rivers of ice that end ...
Rethinking land conservation to protect species that will need to move with climate change
Credit: University of Washington All plants and animals need suitable conditions to survive. That means a certain amount of light, ...
Instant hydrogen production for powering fuel cells
Researchers develop a method for on-demand hydrogen production, which has potential for use in portable hydrogen fuel cellsCredit: Jing Liu ...
NASA catches the dying remnants of Tropical Cyclone 12P
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Cyclone 12P formed in the Southern Pacific Ocean on January 25 and two days later, NASA's ...
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