Earth Sciences

How To Look At Dinosaur Tracks

be barely recognizable as tracks at all.” With this in mind, Milàn and Loope sought to describe and ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 3 2008 - 4:15pm

Lonesome George Is Not So Lonely These Days

populations across the nuclear genome relative to a large database including individuals from all 11 extant ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2007 - 1:44pm

Madagascan Tropical Forests Return Thanks To Better Management

have the highest level of plant endemism (species found only in a particular region) in all of ...

Article - News Staff - May 1 2007 - 10:21pm

'Short-circuit' Found In Ocean Circulation

than previously thought. This affects the Southern Ocean circulation, which links all the other oceans, ...

Article - News Staff - May 10 2007 - 11:51am

Marine Reserves Could Save Coral Reefs

home to more than a quarter of all known fish species.- As well as supporting huge tourist industries, ...

Article - News Staff - May 14 2007 - 9:39pm

Permanent Ice Fields Are Resisting Global Warming

the Dôme du Goûter (4300 m) or the summit of Mont Blanc (4810 m), all precipitation is solid, falling ...

Article - News Staff - May 16 2007 - 10:56am

Southern Ocean Carbon Sink Weakened

Earth's land and ocean sinks absorb about half of all carbon dioxide emissions from human ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2007 - 9:26am

Why Cheetahs Cheat

Surprisingly, few known males had, with only 21.3 percent being assigned paternity, although not all males in ...

Article - News Staff - May 31 2007 - 1:59pm

It's A Biological Fuel Cell

sticking electrodes into a spud. The company hopes the invention will juice up all kinds of small ...

Article - Jane Poynter - Jun 19 2009 - 10:55pm

Envisat Captures Mount Gamkonora Eruption

can be carried out on all volcanoes across the globe, space-based monitoring helps identify the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 11 2007 - 1:44pm