Tag: Earth Science

Credit: Caroline McNiel/National MagLab TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Thank goodness for the Earth's crust: It is, after all, that solid, outermost ...

NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite sees Tropical Storm Boris form

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with visible ...

WHOI researcher dives to Challenger Deep

Ying-Tsong Lin is the 12th person in history and the first person of Asian descent to visit ocean's deepest seafloorCredit: ...

Tiny Japanese dinosaur eggs help unscramble Cretaceous ecosystem

University of Tsukuba research reveals a nest of exceptionally small non-avian theropod egg fossils in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, providing a ...

No leg to stand on for Australia’s flamingos

Three species thrived until inland lakes driedCredit: Flinders University The sweeping pink salt lakes across Australia's interior are all that ...

Unorthodox desalination method could transform global water management

Columbia engineers apply their pioneering technique to attain energy-efficient zero-liquid discharge--the last frontier of desalination--of ultrahigh salinity brinesCredit: Chanhee Boo/Columbia ...

You’re using disinfectants wrong. Here’s what you actually need to do (video)

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, June 25, 2020 -- Sure, you've got a product that says "kills germs" under ...

Papers concludes that incentives to afforestation can be harmful to the environment

Credit: Cristian Echeverría "Through a counterfactual analysis, we showed that between 1986 and 2011 the incentives to afforestation in Chile ...

Carbon cycling in wet soils

Credit: Courtesy of Adrian Mellage Under changing, increasingly dynamic climatic conditions, temperate soils are forecast to experience a high degree ...

Puget Sound eelgrass beds create a ‘halo’ with fewer harmful algae, new method shows

Credit: Emily Kunselman Eelgrass, a species of seagrass named for its long slippery texture, is one of nature's superheroes. It ...

Simulations reveal how saltwater behaves in Earth’s mantle

Credit: Zhang et al Scientists estimate that the Earth's mantle holds as much water as all the oceans on the ...

Self-powered alarm fights forest fires, monitors environment

Credit: Michigan State University Smokey the Bear says that only you can prevent wildfires, but what if Smokey had a ...

NASA finds post-Tropical Cyclone Dolly exiting the tropical stage

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview NASA's Terra satellite provided a night-time look at what is now Post-Tropical Storm Dolly in the ...

NASA satellite gives a hello to tropical storm Dolly