Earth Sciences

Southern Ocean Carbon Sink Weakened

Earth's land and ocean sinks absorb about half of all carbon dioxide emissions from human ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2007 - 9:26am

Why Cheetahs Cheat

Surprisingly, few known males had, with only 21.3 percent being assigned paternity, although not all males in ...

Article - News Staff - May 31 2007 - 1:59pm

It's A Biological Fuel Cell

sticking electrodes into a spud. The company hopes the invention will juice up all kinds of small ...

Article - Jane Poynter - Jun 19 2009 - 10:55pm

Envisat Captures Mount Gamkonora Eruption

can be carried out on all volcanoes across the globe, space-based monitoring helps identify the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 11 2007 - 1:44pm

Geologists Witness Unique Volcanic Mudflow

eruptions at Mount St. Helens, for example, resulted in spectacular lahar flows that choked virtually all ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2007 - 10:25am

Ozone Depletion In The Antarctic Due To Natural Halogens, Researchers Say

remove potentially harmful compounds, and aerosol formation. All these atmospheric phenomena are linked ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 26 2007 - 1:02pm

Climate Change Threatens Siberian Forests

all Siberian ecosystems showed an earlier onset of spring. The strongest advance of spring was ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 31 2007 - 10:03pm

Wildlife Conservation Society Scientists Create Photographic Archive Of Individual Elephants

said WCS researcher Varun Goswami, the study’s lead author. “In light of this fact, just counting all ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2007 - 2:37pm

World Ocean "Link" Discovered

water to all three ocean basins. Mr Ridgway and co-author Mr Jeff Dunn say identification of the ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2007 - 3:04pm

NASA: Sea Surface Temperatures Fueled Recent Storms

were all over 80 degrees Fahrenheit. That's one thing that hurricane forecasters watch for because ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2007 - 5:13pm