Tag: Earth Science

November 19, 2019

Credit: Stuart Gilfillan The discovery of gases released from deep beneath the Earth's crust could help to explain Southern Africa's ...

Exoplanet axis study boosts hopes of complex life, just not next door

November 19, 2019

Credit: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope "They're out there," goes a saying about extraterrestrials. It would seem more likely to be ...

NASA finds light rain in fading tropical depression fengshen

Credit: Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL A NASA analysis of rainfall rates shows that the once mighty Fengshen is now a depression devoid ...

NASA finds heavy rain potential in typhoon Kalmaegi

Credit: Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson NASA analyzed the cloud top temperatures in Typhoon Kalmaegi using infrared light to determine the ...

Moss: a bio-monitor of atmospheric nitrogen deposition in the Yangtze River Delta

Credit: Tao Huang Atmospheric reactive nitrogen (N) deposition has more than doubled over the past century. It is very important ...

NASA finds light rain in fading Tropical Depression 21E

Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL Tropical Depression 21E never matured into a tropical storm and a NASA analysis of rainfall rates show the ...

Sierra Nevada has oldest underground water recharge system in Europe

Scientists from the University of Granada, the IGME, and the Universities of Cologne and Lisbon have demonstrated that the careo ...

Boosting wind farmers, global winds reverse decades of slowing and pick up speed

Credit: Erping Sun In a boon to wind farms, average daily wind speeds are picking up across much of the ...

NASA gets an eyeful of Typhoon Fengshen

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of Typhoon Fengshen after its eye opened as Fengshen had ...

NASA looks at Tropical Depression Kalmaegi’s water vapor concentration

Credit: NASA/NRL When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Philippine Sea, water vapor data provided information about the intensity of ...

NASA identifies new eastern pacific tropical storm

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of developing Tropical Storm Raymond in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. ...

EurekAlert! fellowship spotlights early-career science journalists from Latin America, other emerging regions

Credit: Courtesy photos provided by the winners Five early-career science journalists from emerging regions will attend the 2020 AAAS Annual ...

NASA-NOAA satellite finds displaced power in Tropical Cyclone Kalmaegi

Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Cyclone Kalmaegi is still experiencing wind shear and those winds have continued to displace the strongest storms ...

New moon-seeking sensor aims to improve earth observations

Credit: NASA A new instrument with its eye on the Moon is taking off aboard a high-altitude NASA plane to ...

UNH researchers find climate change and turf seaweed causing ‘patchy’ seascape

Credit: Jennifer Dijkstra/UNH DURHAM, N.H. - The effects of climate change are becoming more apparent, from the rapidly warming Gulf ...

SeaWorld commits $900,000 to protect North Atlantic right whale

Credit: Image: Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, NOAA Permit #594-1759 The SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund announced that it ...

ASU study shows some aquatic plants depend on the landscape for photosynthesis

Runoff from soils and surrounding environments provide life-sustaining carbonCredit: Lars Iversen All plants need carbon dioxide, or CO2 to live. ...

NASA infrared data shows strength in Fengshen

Credit: Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson Tropical Storm Fengshen's cold cloud top temperatures revealed that the storm was maintaining strength as ...

New process kills mosquito larvae using bacteria in the male’s gut microbiome

Ben-Gurion University team wins gold medal for research at 2019 iGem CompetitionCredit: Ben-Gurion University/IGem BEER-SHEVA, Israel...November 14, 2019 - A ...

Global climate change concerns for Africa’s Lake Victoria