Earth Sciences

Shrinking Sea Ice Cover Strands Baby Harp Seals

sea ice cover in all four harp seal breeding regions in the North Atlantic has declined by up to ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2013 - 11:00am

Canadian Boreal: Conservation Of The World's Last Great Forest

sectors are all active there, in an area of roughly 180 million acres, which is larger than the US state ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 28 2013 - 1:09pm

Same CO2 But Much Higher Warmth During Pliocene Explained

sea ice might be gone all year round, but let's just make it go away,' " said White, ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2013 - 1:35pm

Cleaning Solar Panels Not Worth The Money

essentially block all sunlight and will not be washed away when it rains. Engineers also found that at a few ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 31 2013 - 12:04pm

Climate Predictions: Better Hindcasts Will Lead To Better Forecasts

prior to the beginning of the observed climate shifts. The average of all predictions for both abrupt ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 22 2013 - 9:53am

The Greening Of The Arctic

don't know why," Bhatt said. This all illustrates the complexity of the arctic system and why ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 23 2013 - 1:03pm

Artificial Photosynthesis Catalysts: Hydrogen Fuel From Sunlight

hour's worth of sunlight than all of humanity uses in an entire year. Through the process of ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2013 - 9:03am

West Antarctica Ice Sheet Existed 20 Million Years Earlier Than Believed

consider the uncertainty in the topographic reconstructions, all of which show ice growth on East and West ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2013 - 1:17pm

Martian Clouds Created On Earth

first pumped all the oxygen out of the chamber, and instead filled it with inert nitrogen or carbon ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2013 - 10:32am

2 Degrees Warming Might Put 500 Million People At Risk Of Water Scarcity

change goes on unabated, would put nearly all terrestrial natural ecosystems at risk of severe change. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2013 - 10:18am