Earth Sciences

Ring Of Fire Tectonic Plate Is Cooling- And Shrinking

It's going to be at least approximately isotropic. It should shrink the same in all directions, not ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 27 2014 - 10:31am

Environmental Scientists Make The Environmental Case For Fracking

and bans on fracking – are made all the time based on assumptions about health risks."  Citation: ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2014 - 7:25pm

Dams Are Not The Smart Way To Secure Water For Agriculture

production. However, this is an area that is smart to invest further work. A step backwards All of these good ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 22 2014 - 6:00am

Plants Absorb More CO2 Than We Thought, But...

suggest that the land will continue to absorb more carbon all throughout this century, some predict it ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 26 2014 - 8:00am

Is The Micropower Revolution Here?

heat into the future. Power grids and centralized power plants changed all that, and the 20th century ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 26 2014 - 1:01pm

Meltwater On Greenland's Ice Sheet- Small Rivers Make A Big Difference

to 46,000 feet per second-- a massive flow rate that is all the more awe-inspiring because the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2015 - 5:42pm

Better And Worse Than Thought: Corrected Estimates Of Sea Level Rise

sheets." "We are looking at all the available sea-level records and trying to say that Greenland has ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2015 - 2:11pm

Solving The Puzzle Of Sea-Level Rise

approach to tide-gauge records, we realized that we could add all of our estimated individual contributions ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 17 2015 - 8:30am

Young Earth Creationism Ignores Basic Geology- And Christian Theology

creationists attribute to the flood. What you find in the rocks is that more than 99% of all species entombed ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 28 2015 - 12:00pm

Sustainable Jet Fuel: Sunshine And Seawater Could Power Flight

sunshine – all the ingredients needed for a similar solar biofuel and food project. It has a national air ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 10 2015 - 1:00pm