Earth Sciences

Preparing For The Next Megathrust Earthquake

sediments going back all the way to deglacial times. In Effingham Inlet, on the west coast of Vancouver ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2013 - 12:31pm

Salton Sea Geothermal Power Facility In California Induces Earthquakes- Study

extraction," Brodsky said. "The correlation was even better when we used a combination of all the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 11 2013 - 5:00pm

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