Regional habitat differences identified for threatened piping plovers on Atlantic coast
Findings can help enhance shorebird species' protection, recoveryCredit: Credit: Susan Haig, USGS Piping plovers, charismatic shorebirds that nest and feed ...
Tag: Geography
ACUASI completes remote sensing map of Canada’s first highway to the Arctic
Credit: Fisheries and Oceans Canada Members of the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI) recently completed a high ...
Asteroid crater on Earth provides clues about Martian craters
Research team led by the University of Göttingen discovers crater floor sagging from bowl-shaped volcanic ash layerCredit: Gernot Arp, University ...
Early indicators of magma viscosity could help forecast a volcano’s eruption style
2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano in Hawai'i provided scientists with an unprecedented opportunity to identify new factors that could help ...
Leipizig University joins new DFG Priority Program on the fluvial anthroposphere
Collaboration between Leipzig University, the University of Tübingen and the Technical University of DarmstadtCredit: Christoph Zielhofer, Leipzig University Floodplains are ...
Flood risk uncertainties assessed at the global scale
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - A research team from the Institute of Industrial ...
New oil palm map to inform policy and landscape-level planning
Credit: Image produced using QGIS IIASA researchers have used Sentinel 1 satellite imagery from the European Space Agency to produce ...
Mapping COVID risk in urban areas: a way to keep the economy open
Researchers in India use GIS mapping to identify city neighborhoods at highest risk of a COVID outbreak--helping officials place targeted ...
Thirteen UNIST researchers awarded prestigious 2021 Sejong Science Fellowship!
Credit: UNIST UNIST researchers who are in the early stages of their research careers will be given opportunities to advance ...
Cephalopods: Older than was thought?
Fossil find from Canada could rewrite the evolutionary history of invertebrate organismsCredit: Gregor Austermann / Communications Biology The possibly oldest ...
TU Graz researchers identify chemical processes as key to understanding landslides
Credit: © Kieffer - TU Graz/DCNA Mass movements such as landslides and hill-slope debris flows cause billions of euros in ...
Polarstern expedition investigates massive calved iceberg
Experts explore for the first time life on the seafloor in a region formerly covered by thick iceCredit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / ...
New study investigates how life on land recovered after “The Great Dying”
By characterizing how ancient life responded to environmental stressors, researchers gain insights into how modern species might fareCredit: © Xiaochong ...
NASA images reveal important forests and wetlands are disappearing in Belize
Credit: Image from the Landsat 8 archive, NASA/USGS. AUSTIN, Texas -- Using NASA satellite images and machine learning, researchers with ...