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UrduTheir technique combines traditional ‘acoustic mapping’ with a newer method called ‘full waveform inversion’. They found their new method enhanced their view of rocks along a fault line – a break in the Earth’s crust – off the east coast…
Tag: Earth Science
Machu Picchu: Ancient Incan sanctuary intentionally built on faults
Research presented at the 2019 GSA Annual Meeting
UN Climate Action Summit opens opportunities for action on infectious disease impacts
As government, business, and community leaders from around the world gather in New York today for the United Nations Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit, attention to the immediate and international threats posed by climate change to human health will be critical…
Bee biodiversity barometer on Fiji
New species described as environment changes
Faults’ hot streaks and slumps could change earthquake hazard assessments
Research presented at the 2019 GSA Annual Meeting
Marine Regions Forum: Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, 2019, Berlin, Germany
Achieving a healthy ocean — Regional ocean governance beyond 2020
Exploring the future of coal power in water scarce Asia
Many aspects of modern energy systems necessitate access to reliable water resources. The findings of a new study involving IIASA researchers shows that Developing Asia’s long-term electricity generation plans – which relies heavily on coal power generation – could be…
Karla crater confirmed to be an impact structure
An international expedition completed its mission in Tatarstan
Why are mountains so high?
Over millions of years, Earth’s summits and valleys have moved and shifted, resulting in the dramatic landscapes of peaks and shadows we know today. Mountains often form when pressure under Earth’s surface pushes upward, yet many factors impact their ultimate…
New report deepens understanding of wind-wildlife interactions
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) announces the publication of a new report , “Impacts to Wildlife of Wind Energy Siting and Operation in the United States,” in ESA’s Issues in Ecology publication. An increase in the generation of wind…
Did Mosasaurs Do The Breast Stroke?
Research presented at the 2019 GSA Annual Meeting
Microplastics in the Great Lakes: Becoming benthic
Research presented at the 2019 GSA Annual Meeting
This evening sees the start of MOSAiC
This Evening Sees the Start of MOSAiC – the Greatest Arctic Research Expedition of All Time Frozen in the Arctic sea ice, scientists from 17 nations will investigate the epicentre of climate change on board the research icebreaker Polarstern for…
Weathering Antarctic storms — Weather balloon data boost forecasting skill
Observational data from radiosondes deployed in Antarctica improve the forecasting accuracy for severe Antarctic cyclones, according to a Japanese research team led by the Kitami Institute of Technology, Hokkaido, Japan. In parts of the Earth that are very sparsely populated,…
Climate change study finds that maple syrup season may come earlier
Once winter nights dip below freezing and the days warm up above freezing sap begins to flow in sugar maples marking the start of the syrup season. U.S. maple syrup production is a global industry, which has been increasing by…
Academic team to be frozen in Arctic ice for historic polar expedition
Sea ice and snow cover experts support global climate study
Study estimates more than 100,000 cancer cases could stem from contaminants in tap water
WASHINGTON – A toxic cocktail of chemical pollutants in U.S. drinking water could result in more than 100,000 cancer cases, according to a peer-reviewed study from Environmental Working Group – the first study to conduct a cumulative assessment of cancer…
Geophysicists challenge conventional view of the cause of porosity in weathered rock
Pores, or empty spaces, in rock are critically important for sustaining life on Earth
UM study abroad students fuel understanding of gaps in conservation data
MISSOULA – Animals around the globe face rising extinction rates, but there is often a lack of data about the causes of population declines, as well as ecological and biological considerations for conservation. For example, the International Union for the…
Researchers see need for action on forest fire risk
New statistical approach: changes in forest fires in the 19th and 20th centuries were man-made
Global warming makes it harder for birds to mate, study finds
New research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and University of Porto (CIBIO-InBIO) shows how global warming could reduce the mating activity and success of grassland birds. The study examined the threatened grassland bird Tetrax tetrax, or little…
Ethanol fuels large-scale expansion of Brazil’s farming land
A University of Queensland-led study has revealed that future demand for ethanol biofuel could potentially expand sugarcane farming land in Brazil by five million hectares by 2030. UQ School of Earth and Environmental Sciences researcher Milton Aurelio Uba de Andrade…
Scientists discover one of world’s oldest bird species in Waipara, New Zealand
Toothed fossil find rewrites history of seabird family
Change coming to Lithosphere
Boulder, Colo., USA: The Geological Society of America (GSA) is participating in a new open-access, community-led journal being launched by GeoScienceWorld (GSW), a nonprofit collaborative and comprehensive resource for research and communications in the earth sciences. GSA is a founding…
NASA-NOAA satellite catches Hurricane Kiko at night
Hurricane Kiko continued to track west through the Eastern Pacific Ocean when NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed overhead and provided a view of the storm. Satellite imagery revealed an elongated shape, which indicated wind shear was still affecting Kiko. The…
NASA satellite provides a view of a large hurricane Humberto
NASA’s Terra Satellite provided a visible image of Hurricane Humberto when it was off the coast of the Carolinas and slowly moving north. The satellite image revealed that Humberto is a very large storm. On Sept. 16, the Moderate Imaging…
NASA’s Terra Satellite sees the birth of Tropical Storm Imelda
NASA’s Terra satellite passed over the western Gulf of Mexico during the early afternoon of Sept. 17 and captured a visible image of the newly formed Tropical Depression 11. The eleventh tropical depression developed during the late morning of Sept.…
Grassland diversity and climate change
Between 2000 and 2018, researchers documented the evolution of grassland plant communities in the University of California McLaughlin Reserve and found that during growing seasons that were drier than normal, communities lost several species, especially species with drought-intolerant traits, and…
Low sea-ice cover in the Arctic
Second-lowest September minimum since observations began
Mysterious Jurassic crocodile identified 250 years after fossil find
A prehistoric crocodile that lived around 180 million years ago has been identified – almost 250 years after the discovery of it fossil remains. A fossil skull found in a Bavarian town in the 1770s has been recognised as the…
Why is Earth so biologically diverse? Mountains hold the answer
What determines global patterns of biodiversity has been a puzzle for scientists since the days of von Humboldt, Darwin, and Wallace. Yet, despite two centuries of research, this question remains unanswered. The global pattern of mountain biodiversity, and the extraordinarily…
Satellite study of Amazon rainforest land cover gives insight into 2019 fires
LAWRENCE — Throughout August and early September 2019, media around the world have reported on the extensive forest fires ravaging Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. Much of the concern stems from the Amazon’s significance to regulating the world’s climate. According to the…
Four billion particles of microplastics discovered in major body of water
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (September 12, 2019)- A new study from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg and Eckerd College estimates the waters of Tampa Bay contain four billion particles of microplastics, raising new questions about the impact of pollution…
Study offers verdict for China’s efforts on coal emissions
Researchers from China, France and the USA have evaluated China’s success in stemming emissions from its coal-fired power plants (CPPs). CPPs are one of the main contributors to air pollution in China, and their proliferation over the last 20 years…
As forests burn
Network of leading forest restoration experts features new website with latest research on drivers a
Climate change in the Southern Hemisphere
Ozone hole, fires in the Amazon, and gravity waves are focus of German research aircraft HALO
Are we prepared for a new era of field geology on the moon and beyond?
Imagining a new era of planetary field geology
Geologists found links between deep sea methane emissions and ice ages
Since 2012, researchers at the Division of Bedrock Geology in the Department of Geology of Tallinn University of Technology Aivo Lepland and Tõnu Martma have been engaged in the research of an international research group investigating the factors controlling methane…
‘Planting water’ is possible — against aridity and droughts
The water regime of a landscape commutes more and more between the extremes drought or flooding. The type of vegetation and land use plays an important role in water retention and runoff. Together with scientists from the UK and the…
A precise chemical fingerprint of the Amazon
Drone-based monitoring system reveals important information on the health of the Amazon
Do animals control earth’s oxygen level?
No more than 540 million years ago there was a huge boom in the diversity of animals on Earth. The first larger animals evolved in what is today known as the Cambrian explosion. In the time that followed, the animals…
Researchers unveil new volcanic eruption forecasting technique
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Volcanic eruptions and their ash clouds pose a significant hazard to population centers and air travel, especially those that show few to no signs of unrest beforehand. Geologists are now using a technique traditionally used in weather…
USC scientist identifies new species of giant flying reptile
The prehistoric creature had a wingspan like a small plane, it could soar across oceans or continent
Microorganisms reduce methane release from the ocean
Bacteria in the Pacific Ocean remove large amounts of the greenhouse gas methane
Deepwater horizon oil buried in gulf coast beaches could take decades to biodegrade
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Golf ball-size clods of weathered crude oil originating from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe could remain buried in sandy Gulf Coast beaches for decades, according to a new study by ecologists at Florida State University. In a…
DOE taps Danforth Plant Science Center for research to improve sorghum as a bioenergy crop
ST. LOUIS, MO, September 9, 2019 – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) through its Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) has launched a major initiative to develop bioenergy crops through genomics-based research. Danforth Center Principal Investigator, Andrea Eveland,…
Ages of the Navajo Sandstone
New study published in Geology
Kilauea eruption fosters algae bloom in North Pacific Ocean
The massive 2018 eruption set off an unusual effect: An algae super bloom that stretched for miles a
Tropical storm Faxai gets a name and NASA gets an infrared picture
Tropical Storm 14W has been moving through the Northwestern Pacific Ocean for several days and has now been renamed Faxai. NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the newly renamed storm and took the temperature of Faxai’s clouds and storms. NASA’s Terra…
SRL publishes focus section on Subduction Zone processes in the Americas
The eastern Pacific Ocean margin stretching from Mexico to southern Chile offers seismologists a “natural laboratory” in which to study and test ideas about the processes of subduction zones, which are associated with some of the world’s largest recorded earthquakes…