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. | |
 Research team draws 150-meter ice core from McCall Glacier July 11, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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A 150-meter ice core pulled from the McCall Glacier in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge this summer may offer researchers their first quantitative look at up to two centuries of climate change in the region. | |
 Methane Formation in the Oceans: New Pathway Discovered July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new pathway for methane formation in the oceans has been discovered, with significant potential for advancing our understanding of greenhouse gas production on Earth, scientists believe. | |
Researchers distinguish waves from mine collapses from other seismic activities July 10, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Researchers have devised a technology that can distinguish mine collapses from other seismic activity. Using the large seismic disturbance associated with the Crandall Canyon mine collapse last August, Lawrence Livermore ... | |
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 ... | |
Geologists Discover Magma and Carbon Dioxide Combine to Make 'Soda-Pop' Eruption July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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This discovery overturns a longtime belief by geologists, who thought that carbon dioxide was incapable of dissolving in magma, said Calvin Barnes, professor of geosciences and lead investigator. | |
 Early earthquake warning: New tools show promise July 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Using remarkably sensitive new instruments, seismologists have detected minute geological changes that preceded small earthquakes along California's famed San Andreas Fault by as much as 10 hours. | |
Intensified ice sheet movements do not affect rising sea levels July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Meltwater is rapidly increasing the tempo of glacial movements on the rim of the Greenland ice sheet. Over the long term, however, this process is interrupted as meltwater drains away via broad channels, as a result of which ... | |
 For Toy-Like NASA Robots in Arctic, Ice Research Is Child's Play July 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Several snowmobiles navigated speedily over arctic ice and snow in Alaska's outback in late June. This scene might seem ordinary except that the recently unveiled snowmobiles are unmanned, autonomous, toy-size ... | |
 Alaska volcano spews huge ash plume for 3rd day July 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Lonnie Kennedy was taking everything in stride after he and his family were rescued from their cattle ranch near an erupting volcano. The mountain, on the other hand, remained agitated, spewing out ... | |
 Researchers study ground cover to reduce impact of biomass harvest July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Ground cover may be one workable method to reduce the effects of erosion that future biomass harvests are predicted to bring. Iowa State University researchers are looking at ways to use ground cover, a living ... | |
Geologists study China earthquake for glimpse into future July 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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The May 12 earthquake that rocked Sichuan Province in China was the first there in recorded history and unexpected in its magnitude. Now a team of geoscientists is looking at the potential for future earthquakes due to earthquake-induced ... | |
 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 ... | |
Major quake hits region of Okhotsk Sea July 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 hit the region of the Sea of Okhotsk early Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, but no casualties were reported. | |
Acidifying oceans add urgency to CO2 cuts July 03, 2008 | User rating: 2.8 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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It's not just about climate change anymore. Besides loading the atmosphere with heat-trapping greenhouse gases, human emissions of carbon dioxide have also begun to alter the chemistry of the ocean—often called the cradle ... | |
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