 Huge Texas sinkhole's appetite decreasing, officials say 13 hours ago | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Geologists said a 260-foot-deep sinkhole that grew to the length of three football fields over just two days seemed to be slowing down Thursday, but that it could take months before it's clear whether ... | |
Another Olympic contest -- weather forecasting 12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Meteorologists may not always feel appreciated, but at the Beijing Olympics at least they will have their own contest. | |
 Scientists endure Arctic for last campaign prior to CryoSat-2 launch 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
An international group of scientists has swapped their comfortable offices for one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet to carry out a challenging field campaign that is seen as the key to ensuring ... | |
 Chilean volcano captured blasting ash May 08, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Chile’s Chaiten Volcano is shown spewing ash and smoke (centre left of image) into the air for hundreds of km over Argentina’s Patagonia Plateau in this Envisat image acquired on 5 May 2008. | |
Global climate models both agree and disagree with actual Antarctic data May 07, 2008 | User rating: 2.7 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Scientists who compared recorded Antarctic temperatures and snowfall accumulation to predictions by major computer models of global climate change offer both good and bad news. | |
 Chile's Chaiten volcano one of scores of active volcanoes in region May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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The Chaiten volcano now erupting in southern Chile is one of 200 to 300 volcanoes in the "Andean Arc" region of Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Columbia considered active by volcanologists, some of which lie in much ... | |
 65-million-year-old asteroid impact triggered a global hail of carbon beads May 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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The asteroid presumed to have wiped out the dinosaurs struck the Earth with such force that carbon deep in the Earth's crust liquefied, rocketed skyward, and formed tiny airborne beads that blanketed the planet, ... | |
 Climate link with killer cyclones spurs fierce scientific debate May 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Climate scientists have begun to debate whether global warming is producing more powerful storms, after Nargis smashed into Myanmar -- brutally changing gear from a Category One to a Category Four cyclone ... | |
 Unmanned aircraft to study Southern California smog and its consequences May 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Using sophisticated unmanned aircraft, research scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego hope to assess Southern California’s potential for climate change and better understand the sources ... | |
 Innovative technology provides insight into what’s below the Earth’s surface May 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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From oil fields and meteorite impact craters, to potential tsunami triggering submarine landslides, innovative new technology which provides images from below the Earth’s surface has been unveiled. | |
 Geochemists challenge key theory regarding Earth's formation May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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Working with colleagues from NASA, a Florida State University researcher has published a paper that calls into question three decades of conventional wisdom regarding some of the physical processes that helped ... | |
Major Arctic sea ice melt is expected this summer May 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The Arctic will remain on thinning ice, and climate warming is expected to begin affecting the Antarctic also, scientists said Friday. "The long-term prognosis is not very optimistic," atmospheric scientist Jennifer ... | |
 'Dynamic duo' develops framework for Earth's inaccessible interior May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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A new model of inner Earth constructed by Arizona State University researchers pulls past information and hypotheses into a coherent story to clarify mantle motion. | |
 Solar games at Paranal May 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Cerro Paranal, home of ESO's Very Large Telescope, is certainly one of the best astronomical sites on the planet. Stunning images, obtained by ESO staff at Paranal, of the green and blue flashes, as well as ... | |
 Global warming? Next decade could be cooler, says study April 30, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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Global warming could take a break in the next decade thanks to a natural shift in ocean circulations, although Earth's temperature will rise as previously expected over the longer term, according to a study ... | |
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