Earth Sciences

These 7 Nations Are Global Warming's Biggest Offenders

some day solar when it is ready, will make clean, affordable energy attainable for all. Source: ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2014 - 8:26pm

Soil Microbes Alter DNA In Response To Warming

additional carbon from the plants was all respired and converted to CO2," Konstantinidis said. "We ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2014 - 10:55am

Source Of Galapagos Eruptions- It's Not Where Previously Thought

do you get these big volcanoes? The Galapagos, Hawaii, Tahiti, Iceland-- all the world's great ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 21 2014 - 12:11pm

Extreme Temperatures, Not Averages, Determine Distribution Of Insects

winter period. The result was discouraging for all 10 species. "Climate change will result in fewer ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2014 - 6:00am

Pigment Or Bacteria? The Idea Of 'Color' In Fossil Feathers Gets A Rethink

is amazing, and will make it much easier to test all of the hypotheses we develop about these ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2014 - 1:12am

Recreating Jupiter's Moon On Earth

NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Colorado. With all these premises, researchers at Centro de Astrobiología ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 14 2014 - 10:16am

Chernobyl Damage Doesn't Just Keep Plants From Growing, It Keeps Them From Decomposing

Zone.  "We were stepping over all these dead trees on the ground that had been killed by the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2014 - 12:43pm

Photosynthetic Activity Shows High Productivity Of US Corn Belt

U.S. Corn Belt "really stands out," Frankenberg said. "Areas all over the world are not ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2014 - 3:30am

Arid Areas Absorb More Atmospheric Carbon Than Previously Known

CO 2 going into the atmosphere. They can't take it all up, but they'll help." The idea ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2014 - 4:34pm

Pollution Ghettos? Study Finds Minority Neighborhoods Have Worse Air Than White Ones

including all 448 urban areas defined by the U.S. Census. In the present study, the researchers overlaid the ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2014 - 4:00pm