 Is a Russian peninsula really part of North America? May 02, 2006 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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For many years geologists have harbored a belief that the Kamchatka Peninsula, shrouded in mystery and secrecy on Russia's east coast, actually sits on the same tectonic plate as the mainland United States, ... | |
 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 ... | |
 'Revolutionary' CO2 maps zoom in on greenhouse gas sources April 07, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 45 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. | |
 Unconventional natural gas reservoir in Pennsylvania poised to dramatically increase US Production January 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Natural gas distributed throughout the Marcellus black shale in northern Appalachia could conservatively boost proven U.S. reserves by trillions of cubic feet if gas production companies employ horizontal ... | |
 Big quakes spark jolts worldwide May 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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Until 1992, when California’s magnitude-7.3 Landers earthquake set off small jolts as far away as Yellowstone National Park, scientists did not believe large earthquakes sparked smaller tremors at distant ... | |
 Supercomputer Unleashes Virtual 9.0 Megaquake in Pacific Northwest February 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 55 vote(s)
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On January 26, 1700, at about 9 p.m. local time, the Juan de Fuca plate beneath the ocean in the Pacific Northwest suddenly moved, slipping some 60 feet eastward beneath the North American plate in a monster ... | |
 Antarctic ice shelf disintegrating as result of climate change, say scientists March 25, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 53 vote(s)
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Satellite imagery from the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center shows a portion of Antarctica's massive Wilkins Ice Shelf has begun to collapse because of rapid climate change ... | |
 Yellowstone rising: Volcano inflating with molten rock at record rate November 08, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 67 vote(s)
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The Yellowstone “supervolcano” rose at a record rate since mid-2004, likely because a Los Angeles-sized, pancake-shaped blob of molten rock was injected 6 miles beneath the slumbering giant, University of ... | |
 Carbon dioxide did not end the last Ice Age September 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 59 vote(s)
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Carbon dioxide did not cause the end of the last ice age, a new study in Science suggests, contrary to past inferences from ice core records. | |
Surprisingly rapid changes in the Earth's core discovered July 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 65 vote(s)
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In a recent paper published in Nature Geoscience, the geophysicist Mioara MANDEA from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam and her Danish colleague Nils OLSEN from the National Space Institute/DTU ... | |
 Lake Mead could be dry by 2021 February 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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There is a 50 percent chance Lake Mead, a key source of water for millions of people in the southwestern United States, will be dry by 2021 if climate changes as expected and future water usage is not curtailed, ... | |
 Large methane release could cause abrupt climate change as happened 635 million years ago May 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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An abrupt release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, about 635 million years ago from ice sheets that then extended to Earth’s low latitudes caused a dramatic shift in climate, triggering a series of events ... | |
 Is Mars dead, or is it only sleeping? October 17, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 58 vote(s)
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The surface of Mars is completely hostile to life as we know it. Martian deserts are blasted by radiation from the sun and space. The air is so thin, cold, and dry, if liquid water were present on the surface, ... | |
 New study sheds light on mysterious 'supershear' quakes June 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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A French-Turkish team of seismologists on Thursday said they had found evidence about the impacts of a rare but extremely violent earthquake called a supershear. | |
 Earth's heat adds to climate change to melt Greenland ice December 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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Scientists have discovered what they think may be another reason why Greenland 's ice is melting: a thin spot in Earth's crust is enabling underground magma to heat the ice. | |
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