Earth Sciences

Zoning Plan For Earth: Optimizing Where Roads Should And Should Not Go

distant from urban markets. All continents have regions that fit this bill- including parts of central ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 31 2014 - 10:30am

If More People Switched To Being Vegetarians, We'd Solve Global Warming

he's not arguing that all Americans should go vegan, and he believes that animals need to be part of ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 5 2014 - 9:23pm

Asian Has Had Monsoon Season For 40 Million Years

origins required contributions from three different teams of scientists and they all showed the monsoon ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2014 - 10:15am

Early Earth- Now A Lot Less Like Hell

crystals for their age and elemental and isotopic compositions. She then searched the literature for all ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2014 - 2:00pm

New Land, Fewer Harvests? The Possible Future Of Global Agriculture

all land potentially suitable for agricultural use is already under cultivation.  Map of the 23 world ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2014 - 5:01pm

30 Years Left To Reach The Limit: CO2 Emissions Will Reach New Record High In 2014

exceeded. The international team says that in order to avoid this scenario, more than half of all remaining ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 21 2014 - 9:31pm

Fossilized Bite Marks Show How Ancient Reptiles Battled Across Land And Water

quickly we had something special. There are many bones that get dug up; not all are immediately processed, ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 2 2014 - 9:06pm

Natural Gas Boom Has Caused American CO2 To Plummet- But Not The World's

Edmonds of PNNL's Joint Global Change Research Institute. "But when we saw all five modeling ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2014 - 2:08pm

Weather History Time Machine Tackles The Real Drought- Of The 1930s

exists from only a small percentage of the earth's surface. About eighty-four percent of all rain ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2014 - 3:01pm

Journey To The Center Of The Earth Finds Primordial Signatures From The Early Solar System

Helium-4 (He-4) ratios. The surprising discovery was that they all exhibited evidence for mixing with ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2014 - 5:00pm