GRACE Data Spreads Awareness of Groundwater Levels
To help bring awareness to the importance of Earth’s groundwater, a new map showing the world’s groundwater supplies has been created in part from data…
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Earth’s Continental Crust Growth Rate Has Decreased
Newly published research shows that the growth rate of the Earth’s continental crust has decreased significantly over the last three billion years, leaving researchers to…
Expedition to Atlantis Massif Yields New Information
While on IODP Expedition 340T, a team of scientists was able to measure the geophysical properties of gabbroic rocks directly in place for the first…
Storing Carbon Emissions in Deep Saline Aquifers
To better understand climate change and global warming, researchers realize that they must address carbon emissions. A new study suggests using deep saline aquifers that…
Past Estimates of Sea-Level Rise Lowered
Scientists agree that the ocean levels are increasing as the global temperature warms, but how high they will go is the question. By studying where…
Fossil Fuel Emissions, Organic Carbon and Alaska’s Glaciers
While studying climate change and trying to decipher the carbon cycle puzzle, researchers have been studying the source and amount of carbon flowing into the…
Colombian Volcano Nevado del Ruiz Has Increased Activity
The Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia hasn’t erupted in over 20 years, but there are signs that point that it’s entering a more active…
Rapidly Retreating Glacial Ice Leaves Species Threatened
The rapidly disappearing glaciers are altering more than the physical landscape, as a recent analysis suggests. Species that live in streams and rivers that flow…
Antarctic Ecosystems Threatened by Invasive Alien Species and Climate Change
According to the first-ever continent-wide risk assessment, climate change and the increasing number of visitors are putting the Antarctic ecosystems at risk. The research team…
NASA Set to Launch 5 Rockets to Study High-Altitude Jet Stream
NASA is set to launch five rockets to study the high-speed winds and electrical turbulence of the high-altitude jet stream located 60 to 65 miles…
Italian Volcano Etna Has Its Third Eruption of 2012
The Italian volcano Etna, located in on the eastern coast of Sicily, had its third paroxysm of 2012 on March 4th, its first since early…
The Role of Climate Change in Chemical Weathering of Rocks
The chemical weathering process of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere dissolving in rainwater to form carbonic acid, which dissolves rocks and then flows into the…
Billion Year Old Surface Water Found in Oceanic Plates
While analyzing samples of submarine volcanic glass near subduction zones, scientists found something unexpected. They saw changes in isotopes of hydrogen and boron from the…
NASA Study Reveals Multi-Year Ice Declining Faster than Perennial Ice that Surrounds It
Research complied from NASA’s Nimbus-7 satellite and the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Meteorological Satellite Program by senior research scientist Josefino Comiso shows how multi-year…
New Research Shows Southern Ocean as a Powerful Influence on Climate Change
Researchers at MIT and Florida State University found evidence that the missing piece in the model of world’s oceans circulation of heat, water and carbon…
Microbial Oasis Discovered Under Atacama Desert in Chile
Researchers have discovered a veritable microbial oasis, under the Atacama Desert in Chile. The region is known for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), but…
Plankton-Fueled Agulhas Current Ocean Eddy Is 93 Miles Wide
Deep below the ocean’s surface, huge eddies are often formed. The depths have their own kinds of weather systems. NASA’s Terra satellite captured this photo…
NASA Launched Rocket into Aurora Borealis
Astronomers launched a NASA-funded rocket into the aurora borealis, which are colloquially known as the northern lights. The 46-foot rocket, the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in the Alfvén…