Tag: Earth Science

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Cyclone Esami formed in the Southern Indian Ocean and just three days later, visible imagery from ...

NASA finds Tropical Cyclone Diane’s quick fade

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Cyclone Diane formed late on January 24 and by the next day it was reduced to ...

Children to bear the burden of negative health effects from climate change

Credit: UTHealth The grim effects that climate change will have on pediatric health outcomes was the focus of a "Viewpoint" ...

United Nations award goes to company born out of university pollution project

An energy start-up in India, formed out of an Aston University scheme, has won a prestigious United Nations' award for ...

Tiny, ancient meteorites suggest early Earth’s atmosphere was rich in carbon dioxide

Credit: Donald Brownlee/University of Washington Very occasionally, Earth gets bombarded by a large meteorite. But every day, our planet gets ...

Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystems face a perfect storm

Credit: Nick Graham A combination of climate change, extreme weather and pressure from local human activity is causing a collapse ...

New species of Allosaurus discovered in Utah

January 24, 2020

Credit: Todd Marshall A remarkable new species of meat-eating dinosaur has been unveiled at the Natural History Museum of Utah. ...

Making ‘lemonade’: Chance observation leads to study of microbial bloom formation

Credit: Rhys Probyn WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- A scientific discovery often starts with a chance observation made by open minds ...

Acetone plus light creates a green jet fuel additive

New product creates fuel from biomass, while improving engine performanceCredit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., January 23, 2020--Take ...

NASA finds wind shear affected new Tropical Cyclone 09S

Credit: NASA Worldview Tropical Cyclone 09S formed on Jan. 22 in the Southern Indian Ocean despite being affected by vertical ...

Study provides insight on how to minimize the impacts of severe weather on wildlife

Credit: Photo by Elina Garrison, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. When Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida in September ...

Global warming could have a negative impact on biodiversity generation processes

This is one of the conclusions of an international study focused on the causes of the evolutionary success of Carex, ...

Climate-friendly food choices protect the planet, promote health, reduce health costs

Credit: Jono Drew Increased uptake of plant-based diets in New Zealand could substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions while greatly improving ...

Deep diving scientists discover bubbling CO2 hotspot

Credit: University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences Diving 200 feet under the ocean surface to conduct scientific ...

Sea level rise could reshape the United States, trigger migration inland

AI shows climate change-driven sea-level rise could trigger mass migration to cities inland, including Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Denver and Las ...

Major NSF-sponsored grant will help researchers discover ways to improve urban sustainability

Credit: Jan Thompson AMES, Iowa - Dense urban areas use up more energy, water and food resources than they can ...

Mapping the path of climate change

A probabilistic framework is used to understand how climate change progresses under the influence of the greenhouse effect and other ...

Signals from inside the Earth: Borexino experiment releases new data on geoneutrinos

Credit: Copyright: Borexino Collaboration Scientists involved in the Borexino collaboration have presented new results for the measurement of neutrinos originating ...

Neutron source enables a look inside dino eggs

Did oviraptoridchicks hatch at the same time? Researchers at the University of Bonn and the TU Munich provide presumptive evidenceCredit: ...

Human-sparked fires smaller, less intense but more frequent with longer seasons