How ‘Iron Man’ bacteria could help protect the environment
MSU researchers show how microbes stand up to a toxic metal, opening the door for applications in recycling and remediationCredit: ...
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Israel can expect a major earthquake of 6.5 on the Richter scale in the coming years
For the first time in Israel: Drilling under the bed of the Dead Sea; Documents 220,000 years of earthquakesCredit: Tel ...
Cattle grazing and soybean yields
Credit: Morgan Grabau By late fall, much of the Midwest is a pleasing landscape of dry, harvested corn fields. It ...
Climate change caused mangrove collapse in Oman
Study points to sudden decrease of precipitation as causeCredit: © Valeska Decker/University of Bonn Most of the mangrove forests on ...
Surveys identify relationship between waves, coastal cliff erosion
Study shows waves, rainfall important parts of erosion process, providing new opportunity to improve forecastsCredit: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Scripps ...
A scientific project studies the pollution pathways of the Mediterranean coastal lagoons
Researchers from the ICTA-UAB and the UPCT will analyze the entry routes of nutrients, trace metals and pollutants caused by ...
Deep, slow-slip action may direct largest earthquakes and their tsunamis
Credit: Public Domain Megathrust earthquakes and subsequent tsunamis that originate in subduction zones like Cascadia -- Vancouver Island, Canada, to ...
Melody of an Alpine summit falling apart
Seismometers listen to the resonance vibration of the Hochvogel, AllgäuCredit: TU München The entire summit of the 2592 metres high ...
Volcanic eruptions directly triggered ocean acidification during Early Cretaceous
First study to use stable calcium and strontium isotopes to examine oceanic anoxic eventCredit: Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. -- Around ...
New model reveals previously unrecognized complexity of oceanic earthquake zones
University of Tsukuba researchers have developed a state-of-the-art model, which has revealed major complexity in rupture processes even in simple ...
Fire-resistant tropical forest on brink of disappearance –
Research on Indonesia shows effect of human modificationCredit: T. Smith A new study led by researchers in the Geography Department ...
URI scientist tests new technology for removing, destroying ‘forever chemicals’
Credit: Photo courtesy of EnChem Engineering Inc. KINGSTON, R.I. - December 17, 2020 - University of Rhode Island hydrogeologist Thomas ...
New path to rare earth mineral formation has implications for green energy and smart tech
Credit: Trinity College Dublin Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have shed new light on the formation mechanisms of a rare ...
Tepary beans — a versatile and sustainable native crop
Credit: Tomilee Turner Agriculture accounts for more than a third of water use in the United States. In drier parts ...
What happens when rain falls on desert soils? An updated model provides answers
Credit: Ali Swallow/DRI Las Vegas, Nev. (December 14, 2020) - Several years ago, while studying the environmental impacts of large-scale ...
A dynamical world undergrund
What is going on in the subsurface of beaches with high waves and strong tides? A new research group at ...
Last Interglacial: warming amplified in mountain environments
Speleothems turned out to be a great stroke of luck: dripstones from two caves in the Swiss Alps provide for ...
Using water fleas, UTA researchers investigate adaptive evolution
Through preserved eggs, UTA team studies how species respond to invasive predatorCredit: Matthew Walsh, UTA associate professor of biology. Researchers ...
Bacteria release climate-damaging carbon from thawing permafrost
Rising temperatures lead to collapse of intact permafrost soilsCredit: Monique Patzner Around a quarter of the ground in the northern ...
Science of sandcastles is clarified, finally
Science of building sandcastles mysteriously explained for 150 years by the 'Kelvin equation' is finally understood by a Manchester team ...