Machine learning model doubles accuracy of global landslide ‘nowcasts’
Credit: Credits: NASA Every year, landslides - the movement of rock, soil, and debris down a slope - cause thousands ...
Tag: Geology/Soil
The rocky road to accurate sea-level predictions
Dirt and water under Greenland control future seaCredit: Henning Åkesson The type of material present under glaciers has a big ...
Dinosaurs lived in greenhouse climate with hot summers
New climate reconstruction method provides precise picture of climate 78 million years agoCredit: Niels de Winter Palaeoclimatologists study climate of ...
IPBES/IPCC: Tackling the biodiversity and climate crises together, and their combined social impacts
Global experts identify key options for solutions; First-ever collaboration between IPBES- and IPCC-selected scientistsCredit: IPBES BONN, 10 June - Unprecedented ...
Using a mineral ‘sponge’ to catch uranium
Remediation technology reduces uranium levels ten-thousandfold at legacy site in ColoradoCredit: Graphic by Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A ...
Soil microbes metabolize the same polyphenols found in chocolate, wine
New insights into the role of polyphenols in the soil microbiomeCredit: Provided/Bridget McGivern Fruits, vegetables, red wine and chocolate are ...
Mapping a successful recovery
Novel methods and dedicated fieldwork offer good news for cleaning up mining pollution in riversCredit: Dave Herbst Mining involves moving ...
Mixed farming methods could reduce US emissions and increase productivity
Modeled nitrogen-sparing farms across the US exceeded demand for protein but produced 20% less beefCredit: Gidon Eshel Small-scale mixed-use agriculture ...
Underwater ancient cypress forest offers clues to the past
Credit: LSU When saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths and giant sloths roamed North America during the last Ice Age about 18,000 ...
Five million years of climate change preserved in one place
An 80-meter-thick sedimentary succession at Charyn Canyon, Kazakhstan, recorded interactions between land, atmosphere and oceanCredit: Charlotte Prud'homme, MPI for Chemistry ...
UN urges intense restoration of nature to address climate and biodiversity crises
Launching the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, UN calls on countries to meet commitments to restore 1 billion hectares of ...
Keeping more ammonium in soil could decrease pollution, boost crops
Credit: Egan Jimenez, Princeton University Modern-day agriculture faces two major dilemmas: how to produce enough food to feed the growing ...
Research identifies climate-change refugia in dry-forest region
The study was conducted in a Brazilian national park and was based on analysis of tree rings in the species ...
What causes the deep Earth’s most mysterious earthquakes?
The cause of Earth's deepest earthquakes has been a mystery to science for more than a century, but a team ...
Scientists sound alarm about unprecedented mercury accumulation in Pacific Ocean trenches
Multi-national team of scientists discover amounts of mercury in the deepest trenches of the Pacific Ocean that exceed any value ...
Does cold wildfire smoke contribute to water repellent soils in burned areas?
New pilot study finds severe water repellency in sand samples after treatment with both hot and cold smokeCredit: Vera Samburova/DRI. ...
New study shines light on hazards of Earth’s largest volcano
Researchers find that a large earthquake could set off eruption of Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcanoCredit: USGS MIAMI - Scientists from ...
Electromagnetic anomalies that occur before an earthquake
Credit: Copyright © 2021, Yuji Enomoto, Shinshu University It has been documented over hundreds of years that various electromagnetic anomalies ...
Clues from soured milk reveal how gold veins form
For decades scientists have been puzzled by the formation of rare hyper-enriched gold depositsCredit: Duncan McLeish For decades scientists have ...
University of Montana students lead prescribed wildfire burn on university ranch
University of Montana leads prescribed wildfire burnCredit: University of Montana MISSOULA - In mid-April on the University of Montana-owned Bandy ...