Earth Sciences

Crops Genetically Modified For Herbicide Tolerance Can Improve Water Quality

amount of herbicide applied. Averaged for all soybean crop years, glyphosate loss was about one-seventh ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2008 - 9:36am

Is Tropic Mismatch Due To Global Warming Killing Caribou?

caribou births. Caribou-- which are closely related to wild reindeer-- are dependent on plants for all ...

Article - News Staff - May 1 2008 - 10:20pm

Amazon Under Threat From Cleaner Air

forest fires are all acting in synergy to reduce the resilience of the Amazonian forests”. Sulphate ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2008 - 2:18pm

Practical Hydrogen Storage For Cars Makes Some Progress- With Less Ammonia

quantities of hydrogen, at normal pressures, but to date they all require heating to fairly high temperatures ...

Article - News Staff - May 17 2008 - 10:59am

Earthquake Faults In Sichuan, China Identified Last Summer

nuclides that bombard the Earth from all corners of the universe), produced surprising results. The recent ...

Article - News Staff - May 17 2008 - 11:02am

Fixing Air-heating Soot Would Slow Climate Change

Tropospheric soot contributes roughly 35- 40 percent of all observed temperature anomalies (roughly a 37-57 ...

Article - Lee Rodgers - Jun 3 2008 - 2:12pm

Found: 245 Million Year-Old Fossilized Burrows Of Tetrapods

an extremely spotty fossil record because it is difficult finding exposed rocks amid all the ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 7 2008 - 8:17pm

IPCC Underestimated Ocean Temperatures And Sea Level Increases By 50 Percent, Says Study

13 different modeling groups. All model data were obtained from the WCRP CMIP3 multi-model dataset ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2008 - 1:46pm

Where Do Most Meteorites On Earth Come From?

meteorites, the ordinary chondrites that represent 75% of all the collected meteorites. Astronomy & ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2008 - 10:31am

Hydrogen Bioreactor Makes Food For Energy

heterotrophs, cyanobacteria, microalgae and purple bacteria all produce biohydrogen in different ways." ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2008 - 6:27pm