Ancient ostrich eggshell reveals new evidence of extreme climate change thousands of years ago
Credit: Philip Kiberd Evidence from an ancient eggshell has revealed important new information about the extreme climate change faced by ...
Tag: Geology/Soil
NASA space lasers map meltwater lakes in Antarctica with striking precision
Credit: Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Dr. Kelly Brunt From above, the Antarctic Ice Sheet might look like a calm, ...
CWRU receives $1.2M W.M. Keck Foundation grant to determine ecological factors affect the evolution of our ancestors
Professor Beverly Saylor leads interdisciplinary global group applying state-of-the art technology to answer ancient questionsCredit: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND, ...
Changes in Earth’s orbit enabled the emergence of complex life
Credit: University of Southampton Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that changes in Earth's orbit may have allowed ...
Story tips: Powered by nature, get on the bus, accelerating methane and more
Credit: ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Manufacturing - Powered by nature A team of researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...
Wallonia as an international reference for the timeline
Paleontologists from Univeristy of Liège (Belgium) redefine the geological boundary between the Devonian and Carboniferous periods. A Walloon site could ...
University of Guam: Less than 10% of transplanted cycads survive long-term in foreign soil
Long-term monitoring needed to accurately measure transplantation successCredit: Montgomery Botanical Center A 15-year reciprocal transplant study on Guam's native cycad ...
Gulf Coast ready to develop carbon storage hub
Credit: Carol M. Highsmith/ Library of Congress. The stage is set for a new carbon storage economy to emerge along ...
A new understanding of patterns in fluid flow
A persistent pattern formation dynamics is observed and explained through an inter-disciplinary study between chemical engineering and mathematics, and this ...
Protecting species on the move
Credit: University of Tennessee Knoxville. As temperatures and sea levels rise as a result of climate change, flora and fauna ...
Sustainable mining of raw materials from thermal springs in Chile
Brinemine project at KIT: Responsible extraction of energy, raw materials, and drinking water from geothermal wellsCredit: Valentin Goldberg, KIT Mineral ...
Research shows Alaska infrastructure at risk of earlier failure
Credit: Drone photo by Soraya Kaiser; illustration distributed under Creative Commons 4.0 International Roads, bridges, pipelines and other types of ...
Machine learning aids earthquake risk prediction
New framework developed by UT Austin engineers applies big data, supercomputing to soil liquefactionCredit: Martin Luff, CC BY-SA 2.0, via ...
Compost improves apple orchard sustainability
Credit: Greg Peck As the saying goes, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. But what's the key to ...