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Showing posts with label Earth Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Earth Science. Show all posts
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Was plate tectonics occurring when life first formed on Earth?

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Plate tectonics melts and mixes rocks to create magmas with specific chemical makeups. Rochester geologists are using that chemical evidence...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Deep ocean currents around Antarctica headed for collapse

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Direct measurements taken from the deep ocean have established that warming is already underway. Photo Credit:  Pixabay Antarctic circulatio...

Extinction of steam locomotives derails assumptions about biological evolution

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The Union Pacific Big Boy Steam Engine (one of the largest steam engines ever built and still functioning) visited Lawrence on Sept. 2, 2021...

Tur­bu­lence: Decades-old the­ory gets a major remake

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Ivana Stiperski and the students from the Field Course in Alpine Meteorology setting up the instruments at the “Hochhäuser” i-Box station in...
Monday, March 27, 2023

Earth’s first plants likely to have been branched, study finds

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Selaginella Photo Credit: Vicky Spencer A new discovery by scientists at the University of Bristol changes ideas about the origin of branchi...

Surprise effect: Methane cools even as it heats

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Annual mean near-surface air temperature response to methane, decomposed into (a) longwave and shortwave effects; (b) longwave effects only;...
Thursday, March 23, 2023

Mapping Migration

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Avian research often focuses on forests as breeding habitats, but scientists are now working to understand the vital role that small forest ...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Parasites alter likelihood of fish being caught by anglers

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Itsuro Koizumi (second from left) and Ryota Hasegawa (first from right), authors of the paper, with Taro Matsuda of Setsunan University (cen...
Friday, March 17, 2023

New Study Provides First Comprehensive Look at Oxygen Loss on Coral Reefs

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Coral reefs at a study site off Taiping Island, South China Sea. Photo Credit: Yi Bei Liang Scripps Oceanography scientists and collaborator...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

Climate change creates ‘win-win’ between bald eagles and farmers

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Bald eagle Photo Credit: Brian E. Kushner/Lab of Ornithology  As they seek new foods because climate change has altered their traditional di...

QUT rock stars solve long-standing diamond conundrum

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Professor Balz Kamber and Carl Walsh Photo Credit: Courtesy of Queensland University of Technology Two QUT researchers have used a standard ...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

“Denoising” a Noisy Ocean

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Study lead author Ella Kim (pink helmet) helps deploy a HARP instrument package. Photo Credit: Ana Širović Come mating season, fishes off th...

Extinction vulnerability during ancient biodiversity crises is unpredictable

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Jurassic marine fossils Photo Credit: Dr James Witt Evidence from past extinctions cannot be used as a definitive way of predicting future b...
Sunday, March 12, 2023

Why are mammals more likely to go extinct on islands than on the mainland?

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Illustration of Sardinian Dwarf Mammoth, Sardinian Giant Otter, Deer, Sardinian Dhole and Giant Pica  Illustration Credit: Peter Schouten Is...
Wednesday, March 8, 2023

A pool at Yellowstone is a thumping thermometer

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The interval of thumps at Doublet Pool offers insight into the fluctuations of energy in the Yellowstone hydrothermal system. Photo Credit: ...
Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Pioneering study shows flood risks can still be considerably reduced if all global promises to cut carbon emissions are kept

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Maps show historical expected annual flood damage (EAD) in GBP billion at 2020 values, and calculated EAD percentage increase with 1.8 degre...
Monday, March 6, 2023

Red Deer Natural Habitat Recreated Over the Past 50,000 Years

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During the period of global cooling (33,000 years ago), the range of the species declined and reached a minimum of around Photo Credit:  Ale...
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Climate change raises the threat of multiple hurricanes

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Princeton researchers explored the increasing risk of multiple destructive storms hitting locations on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. In this...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Could Space Dust Help Protect the Earth from Climate Change?

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Illustration Credit: Ben Bromley/University of Utah On a cold winter day, the warmth of the Sun is welcome. Yet as humanity emits more green...
Monday, February 27, 2023

Climate Trends in the West, Today and 11,000 Years Ago

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UC Davis students hike in the Grand Canyon, a landscape that has changed dramatically over the past thousands and millions of years. Photo C...