 3-D model shows big body of water in Earth's mantle February 08, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 267 vote(s)
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A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis has made the first 3-D model of seismic wave damping — diminishing — deep in the Earth's mantle and has revealed the existence of an underground water reservoir ... | |
 Global warming surpassed natural cycles in fueling 2005 hurricane season June 22, 2006 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 367 vote(s)
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Global warming accounted for around half of the extra hurricane-fueling warmth in the waters of the tropical North Atlantic in 2005, while natural cycles were only a minor factor, according to a new analysis ... | |
 Titan's surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth February 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 84 vote(s)
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Saturn’s orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new Cassini data. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting ... | |
From beneath Antarctica's Ross Sea, scientists retrieve pristine record of the continent's climate cycles April 16, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 56 vote(s)
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Frequent climate fluctuations on the world’s southernmost continent have been so extreme over the past 5 million years that Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf, a floating slab of ice the size of France, oscillated in size dramatically, ... | |
This is not a drill: The earth actually is moving beneath western Washington March 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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While the annual Sound Shake exercise on Wednesday produced a simulated magnitude 6.7 earthquake on the Seattle fault, a real though unfelt seismic event is taking place beneath western Washington. | |
 Largest Ever Killer Crater Found Under Ice in Antarctica June 02, 2006 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 121 vote(s)
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Planetary scientists have found evidence of a meteor impact much larger and earlier than the one that killed the dinosaurs -- an impact that they believe caused the biggest mass extinction in Earth's history. | |
 Comet May Have Exploded Over North America 13,000 Years Ago August 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 82 vote(s)
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New scientific findings suggest that a large comet may have exploded over North America 12,900 years ago, explaining riddles that scientists have wrestled with for decades, including an abrupt cooling of much ... | |
Icelandic volcano caused historic famine in Egypt, study says November 21, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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An environmental drama played out on the world stage in the late 18th century when a volcano killed 9,000 Icelanders and brought a famine to Egypt that reduced the population of the Nile valley by a sixth. | |
 'Revolutionary' CO2 maps zoom in on greenhouse gas sources April 07, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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A new, high- resolution, interactive map of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels has found that the emissions aren't all where we thought. | |
 Geologists Discover Origin of Earth's Mysterious Black Diamonds January 09, 2007 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 73 vote(s)
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If indeed "a diamond is forever," the most primitive origins of Earth's so-called black diamonds were in deep, universal time, geologists have discovered. Black diamonds came from none other than interstellar ... | |
Antarctic Temperatures Disagree with Climate Model Predictions February 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 70 vote(s)
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A new report on climate over the world’s southernmost continent shows that temperatures during the late 20th century did not climb as had been predicted by many global climate models. | |
 Alaskan storm cracks giant iceberg to pieces in faraway Antarctica October 02, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 47 vote(s)
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A severe storm that occurred in the Gulf of Alaska in October 2005 generated an ocean swell that six days later broke apart a giant iceberg floating near the coast of Antarctica, more than 8,300 miles away. ... | |
 NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face November 13, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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A team of NASA and university scientists has detected an ongoing reversal in Arctic Ocean circulation triggered by atmospheric circulation changes that vary on decade-long time scales. The results suggest ... | |
 Researchers find substantial wind resource off Mid-Atlantic coast February 02, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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The wind resource off the Mid-Atlantic coast could supply the energy needs of nine states from Massachusetts to North Carolina, plus the District of Columbia--with enough left over to support a 50 percent increase ... | |
 Researchers identify a 'heartbeat' in Earth's climate December 21, 2006 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 77 vote(s)
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A few years ago, an international team of researchers went to the middle of the Pacific Ocean and drilled down five kilometers below sea level in an effort to uncover secrets about the earth's climate history. ... | |
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