 Greenland ice core analysis shows drastic climate change near end of last ice age June 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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Temperatures spiked 22 degrees F in just 50 years, researchers say
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 Earth's orbit creates more than a leap year February 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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The Earth's orbital behaviors are responsible for more than just presenting us with a leap year every four years. According to Michael E. Wysession, Ph.D., associate professor of earth and planetary sciences ... | |
 Computer simulations strongly support new theory of Earth's core February 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 64 vote(s)
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Swedish researchers present in today’s Web edition of the journal Science evidence that their theory about the core of the earth is correct. Among other applications, the findings may be of significance ... | |
Current melting of Greenland's ice mimicks 1920s-1940s event December 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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Two researchers spent months scouring through old expedition logs and reports, and reviewing 70-year-old maps and photos before making a surprising discovery. | |
Strange Space Weather over Africa November 13, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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Something strange is happening in the atmosphere above Africa and researchers have converged on Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to discuss the phenomenon. The Africa Space Weather Workshop kicked off Nov. 12th with nearly 100 scientists ... | |
Meteor no longer prime suspect in great extinction October 25, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 72 vote(s)
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The greatest mass extinction in Earth’s history also may have been one of the slowest, according to a study that casts further doubt on the extinction-by-meteor theory. | |
 N.M. cavers chart unique 'snowy' river of crystals July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Hundreds of feet beneath Earth's surface, a few seasoned cave explorers venture where no human has set foot. Their headlamps illuminate mud-covered walls, gypsum crystals and mineral deposits. The ... | |
 Exploding asteroid theory strengthened by new evidence located in Ohio, Indiana July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 52 vote(s)
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Geological evidence found in Ohio and Indiana in recent weeks is strengthening the case to attribute what happened 12,900 years ago in North America -- when the end of the last Ice Age unexpectedly turned ... | |
 Pyrite deposits across the state may be tied to an Eocene meteor June 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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In 2003, during construction of Interstate 99 in Centre County, Pennsylvania, state road builders hit the mother lode. That's a bad thing. | |
How intense will storms get? New model helps answer question July 08, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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A new mathematical model indicates that dust devils, water spouts, tornadoes, hurricanes and cyclones are all born of the same mechanism and will intensify as climate change warms the Earth's surface. | |
Ebb and flow of the sea drives world's big extinction events June 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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If you are curious about Earth's periodic mass extinction events such as the sudden demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, you might consider crashing asteroids and sky-darkening super volcanoes as culprits. | |
 Earthquake in Illinois could portend an emerging threat April 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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To the surprise of many, the earthquake on April 18, 2008, about 120 miles east of St. Louis, originated in the Wabash Valley Fault and not the better-known and more-dreaded New Madrid Fault in Missouri's ... | |
 Journey to the center of the earth: Discovery sheds light on mantle formation April 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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Uncovering a rare, two-billion-year-old window into the Earth’s mantle, a University of Houston professor and his team have found our planet’s geological history is more complex than previously thought. | |
 Antarctic Ice Loss January 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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Increasing amounts of ice mass have been lost from West Antarctica and the Antarctic peninsula over the past ten years, according to research from the University of Bristol and published online this week in ... | |
 Evolution tied to Earth movement December 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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Scientists long have focused on how climate and vegetation allowed human ancestors to evolve in Africa. Now, University of Utah geologists are calling renewed attention to the idea that ground movements formed ... | |
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