Earth Sciences

Assumption That Climate Is Primary Driver Of How Quickly Organic Matter Decomposes Challenged

aggregate away information. We should make measurements at those local scales to capture all of the ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2014 - 4:30pm

Extreme Fracking: Drilling To The Earth's Core

temperatures are so high it can be used for district heating and electricity generation. As in all drilling ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2014 - 6:21pm

By Avoiding Places Where Contrails Form, Airplane Flights Could Reduce Their Climate Impact

governments all around the world do not yet address the important non-CO2 climate impacts of aviation, such as ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2014 - 7:49pm

What Responsibility Does The Ocean Have In Greenland's Glacier Melt?

provide information about the fjords's conditions from fall through the spring. "Almost all ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2014 - 10:19pm

US Air Quality Shows Dramatic Improvement

scientists Yasuko Yoshida, Lok Lamsal, and Bryan Duncan, all of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2014 - 11:54am

Extinct Undersea Volcanoes Cause Tsunami Earthquakes

large tsunami waves. All these factors combined, say the researchers, are factors that contribute to ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2014 - 10:02am

Don't Jump On The Banning Methane Bandwagon- And Stop Using Global Warming Potential For Comparison

all contribute to warming but they are going to be a pointless distraction.   "Until we do ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2014 - 7:30pm

Toward Sustainable Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Aquaculture

wild populations. Moreover, he concludes: “there is the problem of proper disposal of all the tuna’s ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2014 - 11:40am

Southern Hemisphere Volcanic Forcing During The Past 2,000 Years And Impact On Climate Change

Antarctica. "Both observations and model results show that not all eruptions lead to the same spatial ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2014 - 1:18pm

Bioerosion In Mesophotic Coral Reef Geology

is likely because the substrates used in the study were all of uniform composition, unlike the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2014 - 4:00am