Humans Implicated in Africa’s Deforestation 3,000 Years Ago
A new study published in the journal Science suggests that humans might have played a significant part in the sudden deforestation of rainforests from Central…
Geology
Lidar Equipment Provides Comprehensive Pictures Earthquake Zones
Geologists are using new airborne lidar equipment to study earthquakes and provide comprehensive before-and-after pictures earthquake zones. The lidar (light detection and ranging) equipment can…
Asia and America Will Collide in Millions of Years to Form Supercontinent Amasia
In the next 50 to 200 million years, all of Earth’s continents will be once again pushed together into a Amasia, a single landmass around…
MIT Researchers Use Mathematical Model to Predict Speed of Spreading Valleys
Researchers in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) have developed a mathematical model that gauges how fast the Apalachicola Bluffs and valleys…
Little Ice Age Sparked by Volcanoes, Sustained by Sea-Ice Feedback
The Little Ice Age (LIA), a mysterious period of cooling that occurred after the Medieval Warm Period and extended from the 16th into the 19th…
Ubehebe Crater in Death Valley Could Have Future Eruption
Using isotopes in rocks blown out of the Ubehebe Crater, Scientist have discovered that this prehistoric volcanic explosion occurred far more recently than previously thought….
Diamonds Are Like the Earth’s Champagne Corks
It has been demonstrated experimentally that a diamond’s trip from deep below the Earth’s surface must be very quick, since lab tests have shown that…
New Data Finds North American Continent Extremely Stable
Researchers at MIT have published their work on the reconstruction of the Wyoming Province. Despite billions of years of turmoil beneath the Earth’s crust, the…