Earth Sciences

Controlled Burns Could Cut US Carbon Emissions

study assumed that prescribed burns could be set in all suitable forests, whereas forest managers in ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2010 - 11:22am

Asphalt Volcanoes Discovered Off Santa Barbara's Coast

"All the textures are visible of a once-flowing liquid that has solidified in place. "That's ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 26 2010 - 6:26pm

Cretaceous Flying Lizard Named Aetodactylus Halli

American pterosaurs that date from the Cretaceous are all toothless, except for Aetodactylus and ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 27 2010 - 11:42am

Study Tracks Worldwide Forest Loss, Boreal See Greatest Decline

fire, disease and storm damage, are all included. What we found was a widely varying dynamic across the ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2010 - 1:35pm

Lake Tanganyika Warming- Proof Of Climate Change?

oxygen, and at certain depths, it is anoxic, meaning it has no oxygen at all. What this all means is the ...

Article - News Staff - May 17 2010 - 10:57am

What Is The Volume Of Earth's Oceans?

to measure all the ocean-floor depths with an echsounder, according to published U.S. Navy estimates. ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2010 - 3:55pm

Message In A Bottle- It's Not Littering, It's Science!

/ Norman LeBlanc So what was the result? Only four percent of all drift bottles are ever found- most sink, ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 26 2010 - 12:51pm

Hurricanes May Threaten Gulf Coast Oil Pipelines

seafloor all the way down to 90 meters [300 feet]." Ivan's waves on the surface created powerful ...

Article - News Staff - May 26 2010 - 1:49pm

MODIS Rapidfire For Citizen Scientists- #1

All images courtesy the U.S. taxpayer and NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 19 2010 - 6:26am

Arctic Heroes #2- North Pole 1

the last plane to leave. All images used are believed to be out of copyright and in the public domain. ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 16 2010 - 12:29am