Airborne radar reveals groundwater beneath glacier
Credit: NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Melting glaciers and polar ice sheets are among the dominant sources of sea-level ...
Tag: Geology/Soil
Electrons riding a double wave
Research team presents a new type of particle acceleratorCredit: Arie Irman Since they are far more compact than today's accelerators, ...
World met target for protected area coverage on land, but quality must improve
UNEP/IUCN Protected Planet Report: over 22 million km2 of land, 28 million km2 of ocean protected or conserved since 2010; ...
‘Postcode lottery’ of nutrient intake from crops revealed in new study
Credit: The University of Nottingham The amount of nutrients people get from the crops that they eat is a type ...
How a small fish coped with being isolated from the sea
12000-year-old fish bones shed light on evolutionary processes.Credit: Photo: Anders Romundset, NGU / NTNU The last ice age ended almost ...
Peatlands pose complex, poorly understood risk for similar fires, researchers warn
Findings come five years after disastrous fire in Fort McMurray, AlbertaCredit: Sophie Wilkinson, McMaster University HAMILTON, ON May 18, 2021 ...
Earth’s oldest minerals date onset of plate tectonics to 3.6 billion years ago
Ancient zircons from the jack hills of western Australia hone date of an event that was crucial to making the ...
Force-sensing PIEZO proteins are at work in plants, too
Proteins that enable the sense of touch in humans have an evolutionary cousin that helps plants grow their root systemsCredit: ...
Earthquake early warnings launch in Wash., completing West Coast-wide ShakeAlert system
Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington When the Big One hits, the first thing Washington residents notice may not be the ...
Study finds six degrees celsius cooling on land during the last Ice Age
Possible implications about future global warmingCredit: Photo credit: Werner Aeschbach Woods Hole, Mass. (May 12, 2021) -- Low-to-mid latitude land ...
NTU study of ancient corals in Indonesia reveals slowest earthquake ever recorded
Study highlights missing factors or mismodelling in global risk assessmentsCredit: NTU Singapore A 'slow-motion' earthquake lasting 32 years - the ...
Hidden within African diamonds, a billion-plus years of deep-earth history
Scientists find a new way to tell ages of the stones, and what made themCredit: Yaakov Weiss Diamonds are sometimes ...
Geoscientists find that shallow wastewater injection drives deep earthquakes in Texas
Credit: Virginia Tech In a newly published paper, Virginia Tech geoscientists have found that shallow wastewater injection -- not deep ...
Ocean-bottom sediments tell a story about ancient Greenland summers
A study digs into the history of summer temperatures in southern Greenland, with findings that hold a message of caution ...
Water flora in the lakes of the ancient Tethys Ocean islands
New biogeographical affinities in Cretaceous floraCredit: Cretaceous Research A study published in Cretaceous Research expands the paleontological richness of continental ...
Forest fires drive expansion of savannas in the heart of the Amazon
Researchers analyzed the effects of wildfires on plant cover and soil quality in the last 40 years. The findings of ...
Discarded ostrich shells provide timeline for our early African ancestors
Uranium-series dating shows South African midden is world's oldestCredit: Image courtesy of E. Niespolo. Archeologists have learned a lot about ...
Scrubbing paleontological data
The winning entry of the Open Research Challenge (ORC) offers a solution for cleaning paleontological dataCredit: Picture: Joe Flannery Sutherland ...
Red Sea is no longer a baby ocean
Hidden structures reveal 13 million years of seafloor spreadingCredit: GEOMAR It is 2,250 kilometers long, but only 355 kilometers wide ...
To design truly compostable plastic, scientists take cues from nature
New technology could steer plastics from landfills, oceans -- and into your backyard compost binCredit: UC Berkeley photo by Ting ...