Earth Sciences

Conventional Plowing Is 'Skinning Our Agricultural Fields'

said. "If all farms on the planet were converted to no-till, the range of estimates for sequestered ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 8 2007 - 2:43pm

Mid-Atlantic Ridge Turbulence Has Big Impact On Climate

amount of energy when you add all the seawater in the passage, equal to around five million watts, which ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2007 - 4:05pm

Calculating The Biomass Of Martian Soil

mean that we could use all that present technology affords to analyse signs of life. However, if the ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 23 2007 - 7:12pm

Long-Term Increase In Rainfall Seen In Tropics

rain falling has changed very little. But in the tropics, where nearly two-thirds of all rain falls, ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 5 2007 - 3:07pm

When Science And Religion Work Together

deep sense of responsibility about protecting it.” “The idea is for all of us to experience what human ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2007 - 3:24pm

80 Million Year Old Fossils Show Some Dinosaurs Got Smaller Over Time So They Could Fly

bats, all evolved from small ancestors. With the discovery of Mahakala we were able to show that this ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 6 2007 - 5:08pm

Greenhouse Gases And Water Vapor: When 'Positive Feedback' Is A Bad Thing

Basic theory, observations and climate model results all show that the increase in water vapor is ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2007 - 3:25pm

New 'Facilitated Transport' Membrane Catches CO2 For Disposal

eco-friendly and can be used for practically all types of CO2 removal from other gases. Its effectiveness ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 19 2007 - 10:13am

Majorite: Oxygen Reservoir In The Earth's Mantle

surface it is made available for all the oxidation reactions that are essential for life on earth." ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 26 2007 - 3:04pm

New Dinosaur Species, Gryposaurus Monumentensis, Unearthed In Utah

horned dinosaurs. In all, more than a dozen kinds of dinosaurs have been recovered from these badlands, ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2007 - 6:36pm