French Earthquake Fault Mapped by Satellite-Based Radar
This past week, southeast France was hit by a magnitude 5 earthquake with tremors felt between Lyon and Montélimar. The Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar mission has…
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Arctic Permafrost Turning Into a Carbon Source – Holds More Carbon Than Has Ever Been Released by Humans
Arctic regions have captured and stored carbon for tens of thousands of years, but a new study shows winter carbon emissions from the Arctic may…
Unlocking the Secrets of Explosive Volcanism for Better Eruption Prediction
When will the next eruption take place? Examination of samples from Indonesia’s Mount Merapi show that the explosivity of stratovolcanoes rises when mineral-rich gases seal…
Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life Takes Mars Scientists on Expedition to Australia
As any geologist worth his or her salt will tell you, there are rocks, and then there are rocks. Next July, NASA and the European…
“Terrifying” Climate Impacts 626% Worse Than Expected for Intact Forest Loss
The impact of losing intact tropical forests is more devastating on the climate than previously thought, according to University of Queensland-led research. The international study…
Amazon’s Burning Crisis: Deforestation and Number of Fires Show 2019 Not a ‘Normal’ Year
The fires that raged across the Brazilian Amazon this summer were not ‘normal’ and large increases in deforestation could explain why, scientists show. The perceived…
North Korean Nuke Equivalent to ‘17 Hiroshimas’ According to Space-Based Radar
North Korea withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 2003. It subsequently developed nuclear weapons, with five underground nuclear tests culminating…
air-LUSI: New Moon-Seeking Sensor Aims to Improve NASA’s Earth Observations
A new instrument with its eye on the Moon is taking off aboard a high-altitude NASA plane to measure the Moon’s brightness and eventually help…
Last Arctic Ice Refuge Is Disappearing – Twice As Fast
The oldest and thickest Arctic sea ice is disappearing twice as fast as ice in the rest of the Arctic Ocean, according to new research….
Satellite Image Captures Bushfires Raging in Australia
The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission captured the multiple bushfires burning across Australia’s east coast. Around 150 fires are still burning in New South Wales and Queensland,…
The Thrust of the Problem: New Understanding of Quake That Killed 9,000 People
University of California, Riverside research sheds new light on earthquake that killed 9,000 people. A new understanding of a fault that caused a deadly 7.8…
Hurricanes Have Become More Destructive for USA – Climatic Increase in Frequency of Worst Storms
A new study by researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Aslak Grinsted, Peter Ditlevsen and Jens Hesselbjerg shows that hurricanes have become…
New Fossil Discovery Pushes Back Evidence of Insect Pollination to a Time When Pterodactyls Still Roamed the Skies
A new study co-led by researchers in the U.S. and China has pushed back the first-known physical evidence of insect flower pollination to 99 million…
Scientists Surprised: Trees Are Sources of the Greenhouse Gas Nitrous Oxide
A recently published study, completed by researchers from the University of Helsinki together with Dr Katerina Machacova, a visiting scholar, demonstrates that boreal forests of…
Ice Formation in Clouds Created by Air Turbulence
Scientists from Leipzig measure an important sub-process of the water cycle. Vertical air motions increase ice formation in mixed-phase clouds. This correlation was predicted theoretically…
Prepare for Substantially Larger Heat Waves – Extreme Heat Waves Could Double in Size
Our planet has been baking under the sun this summer as temperatures reached the hottest ever recorded and heat waves spread across the globe. While…
Arctic Shifts to Carbon Source – Stunning Reversal After Capturing Carbon for Tens of Thousands of Years
A NASA-funded study suggests winter carbon emissions in the Arctic may be adding more carbon into the atmosphere each year than is taken up by…
NASA: Amazon Fires Were Fueled by Drought-Stressed Forest
A new satellite-based map of a section of the Amazon Basin reveals that at least some of the massive fires burning there this past summer…