Earth Sciences

2010 Chile Earthquakes: Water In Plate Boundary Zone Was Key Factor

pressure and rock properties, on the other hand, are available from laboratory measurements. All these data ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 29 2014 - 3:20pm

Vegetarian Advocates Say You Must Give Up Meat If You Care About Global Warming

debunked. Using the flawed metric, they claims that by 2050 beef and lamb will account for half of all ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 30 2014 - 4:51pm

Baltic Sea Oxygen Depletion 10X Worse Than A Century Ago

extra important that all the countries surrounding the Baltic Sea are committed to the Baltic Sea action ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2014 - 2:22am

Britain's Air Pollution- It's Not Dust

dense but still significant dust. I was all set to write an article telling the public about the true ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 2 2014 - 4:04pm

Google Earth Mystery Object?- Hardly!

have taken to walking the beaches in search of debris. All of which has nothing to do with the mystery ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 14 2014 - 12:19am

Corals Adjust Quickly To Rising Ocean Temperatures

heat-tolerant as corals that had been living in the hot pool all along, they quickly achieved the same heat ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 26 2014 - 10:00pm

The Worst US Droughts Now Aren't Even In The Top 10 Of The Last Few Hundred Years

and four of the five worst droughts all happened during Christopher Columbus' lifetime.  Modern ...

Article - News Staff - May 1 2014 - 9:28am

Pinocchio Rex: Long-nosed Cousin Of Tyrannosaurus Rex

years ago when all of the dinosaurs became extinct, likely as the result of a deadly asteroid impact. ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2014 - 10:01am

Fuel Cells: Can Microbes Make Biodiesel Sustainable?

together and eliminate all of the waste." Together, the bacteria's appetite for the toxic ...

Article - News Staff - May 21 2014 - 7:30pm

How Much Fertilizer Is Too Much?

Program and senior author of the paper. "Agriculture accounts for 8 to 14 percent of all greenhouse ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2014 - 4:44pm