Scientists find eternal Nile to be more ancient than previously thought
Credit: Nina R Ancient Egyptians considered the Nile river to be the source of all life. The steady northward path ...
Tag: Geography
Why did the turtles cross the highway? They didn’t, but they still might be impacted
Research finds turtles are potentially cutoff by bypass through Wayne National ForestCredit: Ben Siegel Ohio University researchers set out to ...
New way to date rocks
Credit: The University of Queensland A new way to date a common mineral could help pinpoint ore deposits and improve ...
Ancient rhinos roamed the Yukon
Credit: Julius Csotonyi In 1973, a teacher named Joan Hodgins took her students on a hike near Whitehorse in Canada's ...
Study says Southern California earthquakes increased stress on major fault line
Credit: Bill Barnhart, University of Iowa A University of Iowa-led study has found that a series of Southern California earthquakes ...
Human activities boosted global soil erosion already 4,000 years ago
European and Canadian researchers join efforts to record changes of soil erosion over timeCredit: (Picture: Jean-Philippe-Jenny) Soil erosion reduces the ...
Extinction of cold-water corals on the Namibian shelf due to low oxygen contents
New study now published in the journal GeologyCredit: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen They were ...
Reframing Antarctica’s meltwater pond dangers to ice shelves and sea level
There's a speed limit on the damage surface ponds can do to ice shelves, but that doesn't mean they're not ...
Much of the earth is still wild, but threatened by fragmentation
Credit: Andrew Jacobson, Catawba College Half of the Earth's land surface not covered with ice remains relatively wild - but ...
Bid to reconstruct richness of prehistoric oceans
Credit: Paul Butler Scientists are reconstructing the world's "pristine" prehistoric oceans. Ocean conservation is a global concern, but the researchers ...
Rice irrigation worsened landslides in deadliest earthquake of 2018 finds NTU study
Credit: Gilles Brocard/University of Sydney Irrigation significantly exacerbated the earthquake-triggered landslides in Palu, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, in ...
Multifactor models reveal worse picture of climate change impact on marine life
Credit: FSU Photo/Bruce Palmer Rising ocean temperatures have long been linked to negative impacts for marine life, but a Florida ...
Thousands of meltwater lakes mapped on the east Antarctic ice sheet
Credit: Nicholas Bayou, UNAVCO. The number of meltwater lakes on the surface of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is more ...
Earth, wind, flora sway Trinidad sulfur levels
UC geologists get a glimpse into the power of wind, rain, coastal proximity and climate on coastal environmentsCredit: Brooke Crowley ...
New tool improves beekeepers’ overwintering odds and bottom line
Credit: ARS-USDA TUCSON, ARIZONA, September 18, 2019--A new tool from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) can predict the odds that ...
Researcher’s innovative flood mapping helps water and emergency management officials
Credit: Civil Air Patrol - Kansas Wing LAWRENCE -- When Jude Kastens was developing a new floodplain mapping model more ...
Solving the salt problem for seismic imaging
Credit: © 2019 Mahesh Kalita The efficient extraction of oil and gas from within the Earth's crust requires accurate images ...
Free dataset archive helps researchers quickly find a needle in a haystack
UCR STAR visualizes public spatio-temporal datasets through an interactive map Let's say you're doing research that requires millions of geotagged ...
Diamond shines its light on Moon Rocks from Apollo Missions, Martian meteorites and Vesta
Nearly 50 years after our first steps on the Moon, samples from the Apollo missions, Mars and Vesta still have ...
Stronger earthquakes can be induced by wastewater injected deep underground
Credit: Virginia Tech Virginia Tech scientists have found that in regions where oilfield wastewater disposal is widespread -- and where ...