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Tag: Geography
Greenland ice sheet faces irreversible melting
Most detailed ever study of Greenland ice sheet warns of irreversible ice loss
European colonization accelerated erosion tenfold
Rates of soil erosion and alluvium accumulation in North America accelerated 10-fold after Europeans colonized the continent, according to new research carried out by scientists from China, Belgium and USA. In a paper published today in Nature Communications , the…
What will the climate be like when earth’s next supercontinent forms?
In roughly 200 million years, the continents will once again unite into a supercontinent; a new study explores how the next Pangea could affect the global climate
Flow physics could help forecasters predict extreme events
Researchers are studying a tornado’s song and other ‘doors to danger’ in an increasingly chaotic world
Teton range glacial ice may have persisted in a dormant state during early Holocene warming
Alpine glacier resilience and Neoglacial fluctuations linked to Holocene snowfall trends in the western US
X-ray imaging of a beetle’s world in ancient earthenware
Visualization of insect impressions in 3600-year-old pottery from Kyushu, Japan
Piecing together the Alaska coastline’s fractured volcanic activity
UMass Amherst seismologists’ work advances understanding of volcano distribution
Columbia researchers team with global firm to enhance hurricane risk scenarios
Models will enable insurers to analyze implications of catastrophic events
New tool predicts geological movement and the flow of groundwater in old coalfields
A remote monitoring tool to help authorities manage public safety and environmental issues in recently abandoned coal mines has been developed by the University of Nottingham. The tool uses satellite radar imagery to capture millimetre-scale measurements of changes in terrain…
Study shows geographic shift in U.S. social mobility
Dylan Connor ‘s father worked as a house painter while his mother tended to their home and family, one that included six boys. Neither of his parents finished high school, but they built a future for their children that included…
Crossing international borders can be deadly for forced migrants
Study finds patterns across space and time in force migrant deaths
Media, NGO framing of climate change affects how people think about issue: studies
Message frames influence perceptions, whether people will take action
Plymouth-led antibiotic discovery network goes global
A network established by staff at the University of Plymouth has launched a new platform to push forward with worldwide antibiotic research and discovery. With more than 300 members from across the UK already, the Antibiotic Discovery Accelerator Network (ABX)…
East African Rift System is slowly breaking away, with Madagascar splitting into pieces
The African continent is slowly separating into several large and small tectonic blocks along the diverging East African Rift System, continuing to Madagascar – the long island just off the coast of Southeast Africa – that itself will also break…
Virtual reality forests could help understanding of climate change
The effects of climate change are sometimes difficult to grasp, but now a virtual reality forest, created by geographers, can let people walk through a simulated forest of today and see what various futures may hold for the trees. “The…
Scientists have discovered an ancient lake bed deep beneath the Greenland ice
Inaccessible for now, unique site may hold secrets of past
Study of LGBTQ+ experience in the geosciences finds difficulties, dangers in fieldwork
LAWRENCE — For a geoscientist, the benefits of performing fieldwork are countless. Researching in nature gives geoscientists firsthand contact with the earth’s raw materials and a chance to test ideas and develop theories — as well as to make new…
Global analysis of forest management shows local communities often lose out
Maintaining forest cover is an important natural climate solution, but new research shows that too often, communities lose out when local forest management is formalised. The new study published today in Nature Sustainability , led by Dr Johan Oldepkop at…
Distinct slab interfaces found within mantle transition zone
Oceanic lithosphere descends into Earth’s mantle as subducting slabs. Boundaries between the subducting slab and the surrounding mantle are defined as slab interfaces, whose seismic imaging is the key to understanding slab dynamics in the mantle. However, the existence of…
Magma ‘conveyor belt’ fuelled world’s longest erupting supervolcanoes
International research led by geologists from Curtin University has found that a volcanic province in the Indian Ocean was the world’s most continuously active — erupting for 30 million years — fuelled by a constantly moving ‘conveyor belt’ of magma.
Violent encounters between gorillas slow population growth rate
November 4, 2020 (ATLANTA) – As wildlife populations decline around the globe, understanding the natural and human-induced factors that influence their growth is critical for determining the risk of population declines and developing effective conservation strategies. In a new study…
Monitoring open-cast mines better than before
New radar satellites allow observation in almost real time
Sea-level rise will have complex consequences
Rising sea levels will affect coasts and human societies in complex and unpredictable ways, according to a new study that examined 12,000 years in which a large island became a cluster of smaller ones. Researchers reconstructed sea-level rise to produce…
The craters on Earth
Prof. Dr. Thomas Kenkmann, geologist from the University of Freiburg’s Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, together with mineralogist Prof. Dr. Wolf Uwe Reimold from the University of Brasilia, Brazil, and Dr. Manfred Gottwald from the German Aerospace Center (DLR)…
USGS unveils mobile flood tool for the nation
New access anywhere interactive map helps minimize loss of life and property
Surgeon General expects COVID-19 vaccine to be available by year’s end
In a wide-ranging talk with UCLA Health physicians, Wednesday, Oct. 28, United States Surgeon General Jerome Adams, MD, MPH, addressed the politicization of the pandemic and the means of containing the spread of COVID-19. He also offered hope that a vaccine for the virus will be available by year’s end.
Location and extent of coral reefs mapped worldwide using advanced AI
Nearly 75% of the world’s coral reefs are under threat from global stressors such as climate change and local stressors such as overfishing and coastal development. Those working to understand and protect coral reefs are building the know-how to mitigate…
Coastal Greenland reshaped as Greenland ice sheet mass loss accelerates
Ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet has accelerated significantly over the past two decades, transforming the shape of the ice sheet edge and therefore coastal Greenland, according to scientific research led by Twila Moon, deputy lead scientist of the…
Beaches can survive sea-level rises as long as they have space to move
An international team of coastal scientists has dismissed suggestions that half the world’s beaches could become extinct over the course of the 21st century. The claim was made by European researchers in a paper published in Nature Climate Change in…
Dartmouth study examines well water testing promotion in pediatric primary care
Findings from a new study conducted by a team of researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and published in the journal Preventive Medicine Reports , show that involving pediatric practices in the promotion of private well water testing can…
Wildfires can cause dangerous debris flows
Study highlights need for more robust hazard forecasting systems
SwRI researchers evaluate impact of wastewater systems on Edwards Aquifer
Study supports City of San Antonio’s aquifer protection efforts
Artificial intelligence reveals hundreds of millions of trees in the Sahara
If you think that the Sahara is covered only by golden dunes and scorched rocks, you aren’t alone. Perhaps it’s time to shelve that notion. In an area of West Africa 30 times larger than Denmark, an international team, led…
Researchers investigate impact of COVID-19 on BAME businesses
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) businesses have had to incur considerable costs to protect their businesses through lockdown, according to academics at Staffordshire University. During lockdown, many businesses in the UK were forced to shut up shop while many…
Laser technology measures biomass in world’s largest trees
Laser technology has been used to measure the volume and biomass of giant Californian redwood trees for the first time, records a new study by UCL researchers. The technique, published in Scientific Reports , offers unprecedented insights into the 3D…
Crayfish ‘trapping’ fails to control invasive species
Despite being championed by a host of celebrity chefs, crayfish ‘trapping’ is not helping to control invasive American signal crayfish, according to new research by UCL and King’s College London. There have been grave concerns within the science community and…
Meltwater lakes are accelerating glacier ice loss
Meltwater lakes that form at glacier margins cause ice to recede much further and faster compared to glaciers that terminate on land, according to a new study. But the effects of these glacial lakes are not represented in current ice…
Climate projection research may help to battle ‘snail fever’ worldwide
STONY BROOK, NY, October 8, 2020 – Projections of temperatures and precipitation amounts in climate change scenarios may be a key component in a large research initiative with the goal to reduce schistosomiasis, also known as “snail fever,” a debilitating…
Past tropical forest changes drove megafauna and hominin extinctions
New biochemical research shows significant turnovers in Southeast Asian environments and animals during the Pleistocene
Connecting through data
Geographic information science professor Krzysztof Janowicz receives a $5 million NSF grant to pursue large-scale open knowledge graphs
Indonesia’s old and deep peatlands offer an archive of environmental changes
University of Oregon-led project identifies the age, depth and carbon stock of the world’s oldest tropical peatlands
Method used to track Ebola’s trajectory being applied to COVID-19
What exactly happened in Asia that caused SARS-CoV-2 to rapidly spread across the region and then essentially came to a halt there? That’s what researchers from the University of South Florida are trying to determine in a new study funded…
Future climate changes in nature reserves
Bayreuth research: Tropical nature reserves to be particularly affected
Population distribution can greatly impact COVID-19 spread, UCI-led study finds
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 1, 2020 — Uneven population distribution can significantly impact the severity and timing of COVID-19 infections within a city or county, leading individual communities to have vastly different experiences with the pandemic, according to a recent study led by the University of California, Irvine. Findings published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences show that the heterogeneous spatial features of interpersonal connections may produce dramatic local variations in exposures to those with the illness.
USask water scientist honored with prestigious international lifetime achievement award
SASKATOON – University of Saskatchewan (USask) hydrologist Jay Famiglietti has been awarded the 2020 Hydrologic Sciences Award by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for outstanding contributions to the science of water over his career. Famiglietti, executive director of USask’s Global…
Heading upriver
Researchers gain new insights on river dynamics, which suggest that rivers may begin jumping course much farther in the coming years
New woodlands can help reduce flooding risk within 15 years
The planting of woodlands in upland areas could play a significant role in preventing the flash flooding which has increasingly affected communities across the world in recent years.
SwRI adds drone-based photogrammetry to geologic research services
Digital techniques analyze surface outcrops to predict hydrocarbon reservoirs, aquifers below ground
Volcanic ash could help reduce CO2 associated with climate change
University of Southampton scientists investigating ways of removing carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases from our atmosphere believe volcanic ash could play an important role. A team from the University’s School of Ocean and Earth Science has modelled the…