Earth Sciences

New Land, Fewer Harvests? The Possible Future Of Global Agriculture

all land potentially suitable for agricultural use is already under cultivation.  Map of the 23 world ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2014 - 5:01pm

30 Years Left To Reach The Limit: CO2 Emissions Will Reach New Record High In 2014

exceeded. The international team says that in order to avoid this scenario, more than half of all remaining ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 21 2014 - 9:31pm

Fossilized Bite Marks Show How Ancient Reptiles Battled Across Land And Water

quickly we had something special. There are many bones that get dug up; not all are immediately processed, ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 2 2014 - 9:06pm

Natural Gas Boom Has Caused American CO2 To Plummet- But Not The World's

Edmonds of PNNL's Joint Global Change Research Institute. "But when we saw all five modeling ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2014 - 2:08pm

Weather History Time Machine Tackles The Real Drought- Of The 1930s

exists from only a small percentage of the earth's surface. About eighty-four percent of all rain ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2014 - 3:01pm

Journey To The Center Of The Earth Finds Primordial Signatures From The Early Solar System

Helium-4 (He-4) ratios. The surprising discovery was that they all exhibited evidence for mixing with ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2014 - 5:00pm

Antibiotic Levels In Farm-Raised Fish Are Safe, But Need Watching

All of the samples were at safe levels but there is concern that sub-regulatory antibiotic levels can ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2014 - 6:53pm

Deinocheirus Mirificus Puzzle Solved, Revealing The Weirdest-Looking Creature To Walk The Planet

a menagerie of other dinosaurs during the final few million years before all dinosaurs – except for birds ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 23 2014 - 2:37pm

Culling The Population Is Not A Realistic Environmental Solution

century that roughly 14% of all the human beings that have ever existed are still alive today ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 28 2014 - 12:30pm

Gamburtsev: The Fountain Of Youth Under The Antarctic Mountains

soften and they become grow shorter and rounder. Not all mountains, though. The Gamburtsev Mountains in ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 19 2014 - 11:46am