Earth Sciences

Not So Far Out: Did An Asteroid Kill The Woolly Mammoths?

sheets, sparking extreme wildfires, and fueling hurricane-force winds – all of which could have ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 25 2007 - 1:30am

Consensus On Coral Reefs

following statements unanimously: We call on all societies and governments to immediately and substantially ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2007 - 11:51am

Excessive Nitrogen Fertilizers Deplete Organic Carbon In Soil

1970s. "The one- size-fits-all approach was intended to minimize the risk of nitrogen deficiency as ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2007 - 5:03pm

Pseudotribos Robustus: Ancient Jurassic Mammal With New Type Of Teeth

kin all had tribosphenic teeth capable not only of cutting, but also grinding. The combined shearing ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 31 2007 - 6:28pm

Study: Global Warming Impact On Drinking Water Devastating

lake water,” Ibaraki said. “But all those waters are disappearing due to several factors--including an ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 6 2007 - 7:49pm

How Reliable Are Current Climate Models?

scattered range of results from all of the model runs combined. Many of the models had surface trends that ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2007 - 2:55pm

New Bacteria Insight Could Revolutionize Natural Gas Processing From Oil Deposits

and don’t use oxygen. “This is the main process that’s occurring all over the Earth, in any oil ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2007 - 3:07pm

Study: Global Warming May Mean Smaller Fish

all Bering Sea fish,” said USC marine ecologist Dave Hutchins. “The experiments we did up there ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 11 2008 - 5:53pm

Sequenced: Bacterium That Harvests Energy By Making Rare Form Of Chlorophyll

no other organism does,” Blankenship said. “We don’t know what all the genes do by any means. But ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2008 - 2:10am

Green Energy Madness: Destroying Native Ecosystems For Biofuel Crops

unsuitable for crop production. The researchers urge that all fuels be fully evaluated for their impacts on ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2008 - 4:24pm