Dunes, climate models don't match up with paleomagnetic records November 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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For a quarter-century or more, the prevailing view among geoscientists has been that the portion of the ancient supercontinent of Pangea that is now the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah shifted more than 1,300 miles north ... | |
'Noah's flood' kick-started European farming November 19, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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The flood believed to be behind the Noah’s Ark myth kick-started European agriculture, according to new research by the Universities of Exeter and Wollongong, Australia. | |
Researcher presents origin-of-life theory for young Earth, supports life on other planets October 02, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 47 vote(s)
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Some of the elements necessary to support life on Earth are widely known – oxygen, carbon and water, to name a few. Just as important in the existence of life as any other component is the presence of adenine, an essential ... | |
Volcanic eruptions, ancient global warming linked April 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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A team of scientists announced today confirmation of a link between massive volcanic eruptions along the east coast of Greenland and in the western British Isles about 55 million years ago and a period of global warming that ... | |
 Prototype Space Probe Prepares to Explore Earth's Deepest Sinkhole March 07, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Scientists return this week to the world's deepest known sinkhole, Cenote Zacatón in Mexico, to resume tests of a NASA-funded robot called DEPTHX, designed to survey and explore for life in one of Earth's most ... | |
 Tunguska catastrophe: Evidence of acid rain supports meteorite theory July 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Tunguska catastrophe in 1908 evidently led to high levels of acid rain. This is the conclusion reached by Russian, Italian and German researchers based on the results of analyses of peat ... | |
 The Tunguska Event--100 Years Later July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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The year is 1908, and it's just after seven in the morning. A man is sitting on the front porch of a trading post at Vanavara in Siberia. Little does he know, in a few moments, he will be hurled from his chair ... | |
 Maverick scientists probe Siberian forest mystery July 01, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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Was it a gigantic meteorite? A tremendous bolt of lightning? Perhaps the crash of a UFO the size of Tokyo? No one is certain of the answer to one of the 20th century's greatest scientific mysteries -- the ... | |
 Report confirms drilling, not earthquake, caused Java mud volcano June 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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A two-year old mud volcano which is still spewing huge volumes of mud, has displaced more than 30,000 people and caused millions of dollars worth of damage was caused by the drilling of a gas exploration well, ... | |
Mystery of infamous 'New England Dark Day' solved by 3 rings June 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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At noon, it was black as night. It was May 19, 1780 and some people in New England thought judgment day was at hand. Accounts of that day, which became known as 'New England's Dark Day,' include mentions of midday meals by ... | |
 Black carbon pollution emerges as major player in global warming March 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than ... | |
 Past greenhouse warming events provide clues to what the future may hold February 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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If carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels continue on a "business-as-usual" trajectory, humans will have added about 5 trillion metric tons of carbon to the atmosphere by the year 2400. ... | |
 Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system February 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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Anthropogenic forcing could push the Earth’s climate system past critical thresholds, so that important components may “tip” into qualitatively different modes of operation. In the renowned magazine Proceedings ... | |
Geotimes explores oil around the world February 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
With oil hovering around $90 a barrel, Geotimes magazine examines emerging trends and issues in several obvious, and some not-so-obvious locations, in this month’s cover story “Oil Around the World.” | |
 Recipe for a storm: The ingredients for more powerful Atlantic hurricanes November 29, 2007 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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As the world warms, the interaction between the Atlantic Ocean and atmosphere may be the recipe for stronger, more frequent hurricanes. | |
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