Earth Sciences

Two New Lakes Discovered Beneath Greenland Ice Sheet

that, unlike in Antarctica where surface temperatures remain below freezing all year round, the newly ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2013 - 8:00am

Those Supervolcanoes In Utah- Wait, What?

minerals to verify that the volcanic ash was all from the same ancient super-eruption. They found that the ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2013 - 10:36am

4 Billion-Year-Old Diamonds In Earth's Oldest Zircons Turn Out To Be Laboratory Contamination

diamonds in question are not diamonds at all but broken fragments of a diamond-polishing compound that got ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 19 2013 - 5:26pm

Global Warming Model Estimates Major Reductions In Seafloor Marine Life By 2100

experience negative change. Over 80 per cent of all identified key habitats – such as cold-water coral reefs, ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 1 2014 - 10:55pm

The Public Is Against Geoengineering The Climate

emissions in the US and some other nations have dropped, places like China, India and Mexico are all exempt ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2014 - 3:09pm

The Ocean Beneath Your Feet

and a half times the water of all the Earth's oceans to its mantle, according to a new ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2014 - 2:17pm

It's Snowmageddon In Lots Of Places, But Arctic Lakes Are On Thin Ice

freezing all the way through during winter months.  These changes in ice cover affect the local and ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2014 - 6:00am

Sulfate Geoengineering To Mitigate Climate Change: If You Start, Don't Stop

the temperature increases expected if SRM was not implemented at all. The researchers used a global ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2014 - 11:09pm

Cool Earth- 4.4 Billion Year Old Australian Zircon Reveals The Early Genesis Of The Planet

formed 4.4 billion years ago, and at 3.4 billion years, all the lead that existed at that time was ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 23 2014 - 11:16pm

The Microbial Soil Process That Controls Atmospheric Hydrogen

that about 80 percent of all hydrogen released into the air is rapidly removed through soil activity, ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2014 - 12:07pm