 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. | |
 How will the Arctic sea ice cover develop this summer? July 09, 2008 | User rating: 2.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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The ice cover in the Arctic Ocean at the end of summer 2008 will lie, with almost 100 per cent probability, below that of the year 2005 – the year with the second lowest sea ice extent ever measured. Chances ... | |
NOAA takes first broad look at soot from ships July 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Tugboats puff out more soot for the amount of fuel used than other commercial vessels, and large cargo ships emit more than twice as much soot as previously estimated, according to the first extensive study of commercial ... | |
Satellite view of cloud tops might warn of storms brewing July 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
For three years a new way to use data collected by NOAA weather satellites has been giving North Alabama short-term warnings of "pop-up" thunderstorms. | |
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. | |
 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 ... | |
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 ... | |
CO2 increase in the atmosphere augments tolerance of barley to salinity July 07, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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In future, climate change will bring an increase in salty surfaces on the Earth and in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. However, this higher CO2 has some positive effects on the physiology ... | |
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 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 ... | |
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 ... | |
Organizing an Earth Systems Science Agency July 03, 2008 | User rating: 2.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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In an article published today in the journal Science, a group of former senior federal officials call for the establishment of an independent Earth Systems Science Agency (ESSA) to meet the unprecedented environmental ... | |
 Geologists push back date basins formed, supporting frozen Earth theory July 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Even in geology, it's not often a date gets revised by 500 million years. But University of Florida geologists say they have found strong evidence that a half-dozen major basins in India were formed a billion ... | |
Researchers discover new pathway for methane production in the oceans July 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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A new pathway for methane production has been uncovered in the oceans, and this has a significant potential impact for the study of greenhouse gas production on our planet. The article, released in Nature Geoscience, ... | |
 Exploding asteroid theory strengthened by new evidence located in Ohio, Indiana July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 53 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 ... | |
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