Earth Sciences

Dispersants Sprayed After BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill May Be More Toxic Than The Oil

published findings show all corals had more severe health declines in response to dispersant alone and the ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 22 2015 - 8:00am

400 Million Year Old Penis And 4 Other Bizarre Fossils That Changed Science

coined in the early 1990s to encompass all matter of excreta preserved in the rock record, and in the ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 18 2015 - 8:00am

The Best Way To Have Cleaner Energy Is To Waste Less Of It

no more than an initial change of habit. All this has certainly lightened the load on the family ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 7 2015 - 8:05am

Bubble Plume Evidence Suggests Warmer Ocean May Be Releasing Frozen Methane

is slowly released at almost all depths along the Washington and Oregon coastal margin. But the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2015 - 6:57pm

A Better Way To Pack Natural Gas Into Fuel Tanks

than all other major U.S. automakers combined. According to Mike Veenstra, of Ford's research and ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2015 - 5:56am

Drought Atlas Maps 2,000 Years Of Climate Change

atlas and all these wonderful historic records- the records don't give you the broad-scale ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2015 - 11:05pm

Global Weirding: Blame The North Atlantic

solar activity. And all of these do influence the “jet stream” high in the atmosphere that guides and ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 22 2016 - 8:21pm

Armada Of Icebergs Each Bigger Than The Empire State Building Followed Last Ice Age

with ice that was so thick and heavy it was grounded on the sea floor all the way to the edge of the ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2016 - 8:36am

Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your...Nuclear Waste?

waste that needed to be managed – no method can yet promise to drastically reduce the half-lives of all ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 6 2016 - 6:30am

Wind Turbines On Galapagos Meet 30 Percent Of Energy Needs

For decades, all of San Cristóbal's electricity came from diesel-fueled generating stations. That ...

Article - News Staff - May 31 2016 - 7:12am