USask water scientist honored with prestigious international lifetime achievement award
Credit: Steve Anderson SASKATOON - University of Saskatchewan (USask) hydrologist Jay Famiglietti has been awarded the 2020 Hydrologic Sciences Award ...
Tag: Geography
New woodlands can help reduce flooding risk within 15 years
Credit: Buckfastleigh Flood Action Group The planting of woodlands in upland areas could play a significant role in preventing the ...
Driven by climate, more frequent, severe wildfires in Cascade Range reshape forests
Credit: Courtesy of Sebastian Busby | Portland State University In recent years -- and 2020 is no exception -- parts ...
Fungi in a warmer world
Research project will explore impact of global warming on fungi speciesCredit: Dr Matthew Pound, Northumbria University Scientists from universities in ...
Earth MRI funds critical minerals projects in twenty-one states
A total of $7.97 million will fund new research and preserve important data across the NationCredit: USGS The U.S. Geological ...
0.5°C of additional warming has a huge effect on global aridity
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - In a new climate modeling study, researchers from ...
Europe’s primary forests: What to protect? What to restore?
First international assessment of the protection state of mostly 'untouched' forests in EuropeCredit: Tzvetan Zlatanov Primary forests are forests without ...
Multi-university effort to study the Earth’s hidden critical zone- NSF grant
Credit: Virginia Tech Look out your window or step outside and look around you. Depending on where you live, you're ...
Scientists map freshwater transport in the Arctic Ocean
Credit: Alexander Osadchiev et al./Scientific Reports The Ob, Yenisei, and Lena rivers flow into the Kara and Laptev seas and ...
Rebirth of a volcano
For the first time, long-term photogrammetic series document the "life cycle" of a volcano. The analyses shows that volcanoes have ...
Japan’s geologic history in question after discovery of metamorphic rock microdiamonds
a: Geological zone in western Japan. The blue-green part is the Sanbagawa belt that crosses mainland Japan. The Nishisonogi metamorphic ...
New species of freshwater Crustacea found in the hottest place on earth
Credit: M. Pallmann SMNS / Pallmann A new species of freshwater Crustacea has been discovered during an expedition of the ...
Common species mirror rare animals’ response to global change
The populations of common animals are just as likely to rise or fall in number in a time of accelerating ...
Monitoring and reporting framework to protect World Heritage Sites from invasive species
A team of international scientists have devised a new monitoring and reporting framework to help protect World Heritage Sites from ...
Secret weapon to stop invasive honeysuckle: Satellites
Bane of gardeners and foresters alike, Amur honeysuckle can be identified from spaceCredit: Denis Conover One common invasive species is ...
Failures of Germany’s largest cliff coast sensed by seismometers
Dry summers are increasing the risk of large cliff collapsesCredit: photo: Kristen Cook, GFZ The ten km long, bright white ...
CSU’s Kyle Horton leads $1 million NSF project to study migratory birds and bats
Credit: Kyle Horton/Colorado State University A colony of more than one million Mexican free-tailed bats make their home under a ...
A spatial regime shift to stickleback dominance
Credit: Photo: Joakim Hansen/Azote Large numbers of three-spined stickleback have gradually taken over larger parts of the Baltic Sea's coastal ...
Meteorite strikes may create unexpected form of silica
When a meteorite hurtles through the atmosphere and crashes to Earth, how does its violent impact alter the minerals found ...
Majority of groundwater stores resilient to climate change
New study suggests fewer resources are depleting than previously estimated, but authors urge caution in unsustainable extraction levelsCredit: Mohammed Shamshudda/Richard ...