Study shows continuing impacts of Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Findings reveal that restoration of marsh vegetation is key to overall recoveryCredit: © D. Johnson/VIMS. Nine years ago tomorrow--April 20, ...
Tag: Geology/Soil
Data mining digs up hidden clues to major California earthquake triggers
Comprehensive new earthquake catalog includes 10 times more quakes than previously identified, with a more detailed picture of stresses and ...
Amazonian soils mapped using indicator species
Credit: Gabriela Zuquim Understanding the ecology and distributions of species in Amazonia is hampered by lack of information about environmental ...
Small fossils with big applications — the BP Gulf of Mexico time scale
New study published in Geological Society of America Bulletin Boulder, Colo., USA: Geologic time scales are critical to understanding the ...
Bacterial mix helps predict future change
Credit: © 2019 KAUST Reproduced under a Creative Commons license 4.0 from reference 1 A controlled, laboratory approach, along with ...
Mississippi State University row crop short course presentations available online
Credit: Mississippi State University St. Paul, MN (March 28, 2019)--The 2018 Mississippi State University (MSU) Row Crop Short Course, held ...
Dr. Kelly Dorgan receives prestigious CAREER Grant from National Science Foundation
Credit: The Sea Lab at Dauphin Island Dr. Kelly Dorgan of The Sea Lab at Dauphin Island and the University ...
Solving the mystery of fertilizer loss from Midwest cropland
Credit: Bruno Basso Farmers can't predict their annual corn harvest with certainty, but with the help of new research from ...
Historic logging site shows first human-caused bedrock erosion along an entire river
Credit: Sarah Schanz/Indiana University Geologic time is supposed to be slow, and the most solid object should be bedrock. But ...
New evidence suggests volcanoes caused biggest mass extinction ever
Mercury found in ancient rock around the world supports theory that eruptions caused 'Great Dying' 252 million years ago.Credit: Margaret ...
Necrophagy: A means of survival in the Dead Sea
UNIGE researchers have found that bacteria can survive in the sediments of the Dead Sea at a depth of over ...
New research supports volcanic origin of Kiruna-type iron ores
The origin of giant apatite-iron oxide ores of the so-called 'Kiruna-type' has been the topic of a long standing debate ...
New research adds to work of Prandtl, father of modern aerodynamics
Pitt's Inanc Senocak and postdoc Cheng-Nian Xiao publish findings in Journal of Fluid MechanicsCredit: Inanc Senocak PITTSBURGH (April 11, 2019) ...
Where will flooded fields best replenish groundwater?
A new model based on remote sensing data could help zero in on where water managers can replenish aquifers by ...
Higher lead in topsoil boosts probability of cognitive difficulties in 5-year-old boys
Soil contamination has long been recognized as a contributor to lead exposure in people and is now a health concern ...
Gene responsible for toxic metal accumulation in durum wheat identified
Researchers complete genome assembly of durum wheat, identify gene responsible for cadmium accumulation University of Alberta biologists identify gene responsible ...
Hurricane Harvey provides lessons learned for flood resiliency plans
ASU scientists use satellite data to map the Houston-Galveston area impacted by Hurricane HarveyCredit: Megan Miller Hurricane Harvey made landfall ...
Researchers tracking mercury pollution in forests
Team aims to find out how toxic substance cycles through the environmentCredit: Photo credit: Shiwei Sun for UMass Lowell LOWELL, ...
Using bacteria to protect roads from deicer deterioration
Drexel researchers test bacteria-laden concrete mix to prevent potholes caused by road saltCredit: Drexel University Tiny bacteria could soon be ...
New research about biodiversity reveals the importance of climate on today’s abundance of life
BIODIVERSITY Natural history museum paleontologists in Copenhagen and Helsinki have succeeded in mapping historical biodiversity in unprecedented detail. For the ...