Earth Sciences

Convection: Pollution And The Lingering Clouds

the models re-created the storm clouds well. The team found that in all cases, pollution increased the ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 1 2013 - 11:03am

Paranthropus Boisei: A Ruggedly Built, Tree-Climbing Human Ancestor

have more well-formed forearm muscles that were used for climbing, fine-manipulation and all sorts of ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 6 2013 - 5:01am

Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier Melt- Blame El Nino

westerly winds in the surrounding area were easterly almost all through late 2011 and early 2012, and those ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 2 2014 - 7:16pm

These 7 Nations Are Global Warming's Biggest Offenders

some day solar when it is ready, will make clean, affordable energy attainable for all. Source: ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2014 - 8:26pm

Soil Microbes Alter DNA In Response To Warming

additional carbon from the plants was all respired and converted to CO2," Konstantinidis said. "We ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2014 - 10:55am

Source Of Galapagos Eruptions- It's Not Where Previously Thought

do you get these big volcanoes? The Galapagos, Hawaii, Tahiti, Iceland-- all the world's great ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 21 2014 - 12:11pm

Extreme Temperatures, Not Averages, Determine Distribution Of Insects

winter period. The result was discouraging for all 10 species. "Climate change will result in fewer ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2014 - 6:00am

Pigment Or Bacteria? The Idea Of 'Color' In Fossil Feathers Gets A Rethink

is amazing, and will make it much easier to test all of the hypotheses we develop about these ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2014 - 1:12am

Recreating Jupiter's Moon On Earth

NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Colorado. With all these premises, researchers at Centro de Astrobiología ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 14 2014 - 10:16am

Chernobyl Damage Doesn't Just Keep Plants From Growing, It Keeps Them From Decomposing

Zone.  "We were stepping over all these dead trees on the ground that had been killed by the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2014 - 12:43pm