Geology

6 Facts On Human-Caused Earthquakes, From USGS

of May. There are many questions and misconceptions about what’s happening. How does the observed ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2015 - 4:30pm

Want To Lower Your Risk Of Being Involved In An Avalanche? Do This

a tool to make informed decisions and educate others about the possible risks. "The risk of being ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 8 2016 - 2:48pm

Antarctic Volcano Role In Warming Was Understated

from below is about 200 milliwatts per square meter averaged over the entire park, though individual ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2017 - 6:35pm

Earth's Magnetic Field Is Not Reversing

global strength of the magnetic field has decayed at a rate of about five percent per century. And ...

Article - News Staff - May 1 2018 - 1:58pm

Like Diversity? Thank Mountains

pretty amazing if you think about it". Another part of the explanation of the high biodiversity of ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2019 - 5:00am

Norm Borlaug Gave Us The Green Revolution: What's Next?

communities. (2) PNAS weirdly just published a paper with claims about hurricanes that used no hurricane ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 20 2019 - 1:46pm

Rainforests On Mars

are perhaps our most solid sort of data that we have about Mars and we might not expect much other ...

Article - Oliver Knevitt - May 24 2019 - 1:10pm

Welcome To The Anthropocene

Jan's book, which is all about the traces that we humans will leave behind in the fossil record; ...

Article - Oliver Knevitt - Jul 4 2011 - 12:02pm

The Missing-Mantle Mystery- Earth's "Hidden Flux" Of Material Identified

The Earth has a violent history: About 4.5 billion years ago, a maelstrom of gas and dust circled ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2013 - 10:33am

How Greenhouse Gases Saved The World

that are about as old occur in western Greenland. Scientists have studied those rocks exhaustively for ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2007 - 6:08pm