Earth Sciences

Bad For Carbon Offsets- Not All Trees Are The Same At Reducing Global Warming

Forests in the United States and other northern mid- and upper-latitude regions are playing a smaller role in offsetting global warming than previously thought, according to a new study. The study, which sheds light on the so-called missing carbon sink, co ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2007 - 6:11pm

Revolution In Conservation-tagging Fish And All Their Future Offspring

A team of Australian, American and French coral reef scientists has achieved a world breakthrough in tracking fish that could revolutionize the sustainable management of coral reefs and help restore threatened fisheries. Working on coral reefs in a marine ...

Article - News Staff - May 4 2007 - 9:31am

Arrogant Scientists Battle To Represent All Of Humanity

American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope, died on 12 Apr 1897. Cope is best remembered for his rivalry with O.C. Marsh, often referred to as the Great Bone Wars. These two antagonists shared a lot in common: a fierce sense of competition, unbounded arr ...

Article - Sarda Sahney - Sep 5 2007 - 2:51pm

Sun's Eclipse Coming August 1 2008 (And A Guide On All The Ways To View It)

UPDATE: See a video clip here Total solar eclipses take place when the Earth, Moon and Sun are aligned and the shadow of the Moon touches the surface of the Earth. At mid-eclipse, observers within the lunar shadow briefly see totality, where the silhouett ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 1 2008 - 11:07am

Gas Hydrates: Burning Some Ice May Keep All Of It From Melting

In the future, natural gas derived from chunks of ice that workers collect from beneath the ocean floor and beneath the arctic permafrost may fuel cars, heat homes, and power factories. Government researchers are reporting that these so-called "gas hy ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 23 2009 - 3:30pm

Nature has plants for all climatic conditions

Plants resemble stones if they have to grow in deserts. Can you recognise plants from pebbles in this picture? Nature has plants designed to go upto 14,000 feet and above MSL. Even you can decide the altitude based on plant formations. Pines which are tree ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 16 2010 - 6:02pm

Nature has plants for all climatic conditions

Plants resemble stones if they have to grow in deserts. Can you recognise plants from pebbles in this picture? Nature has plants designed to go upto 14,000 feet and above MSL. Even you can decide the altitude based on plant formations. Pines which are tree ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 16 2010 - 6:02pm

Not All Sunshine For Solar Power- Lead Pollution Crisis In Developing Countries

As solar power continues to grow in popularity, science issues like pollution are being swept under the rug in hopes future technology will solve it before it becomes a crisis, much like with ethanol, MTBE, PBDEs and other once-popular efforts environmenta ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 31 2011 - 10:28am

Weekend Science: Probing The Earth's Deep Interior- All It Takes Is Magic

Researchers have described a new technique that might one day reveal in higher detail than ever before the composition and characteristics of the deep Earth. There's just one catch: it can't exist. Instead of being part of the natural world we k ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2013 - 11:30am

Off The Grid: All-In-One Trigeneration System Offers Greener Power With Energy Storage

A trigeneration system fueled entirely by raw plant oils could have great potential for isolated homes and businesses operating outside grid systems. Combined Heat and Power units have been used by large businesses for many years, producing electricity fr ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2014 - 11:18am