Australia’s Role in Sea Level Drop in 2010 – 2011
A newly published study details how three atmospheric patterns came together in 2010 and 2011, driving so much precipitation over Australia that the world’s ocean…
A newly published study details how three atmospheric patterns came together in 2010 and 2011, driving so much precipitation over Australia that the world’s ocean…
A newly published study suggests that planetary “runaway greenhouse” climates are more easily triggered than previously thought. It might be easier than previously thought for…
In a newly published study, researcher Iannis Dandouras details the discovery of plasmaspheric wind, providing the first conclusive proof of the existence this wind first…
A newly published study provides the first experimental evidence that the Earth’s inner core has rotated at a variety of different speeds and suggests that…
In a new study, scientists from the University of Exeter and the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon reveal that Saturn’s youthful appearance is due to…
New research led by Brown University suggests that pre-existing mineralogy on the Moon can survive large impacts and impact melts. Providence, Rhode Island (Brown University)…
New research has unveiled an unexpected link between Vesta and the moon and has helped scientists better understand the event known as the “Lunar Cataclysm.”…
New research from Penn State suggests that the number of Earth-sized planets in the habitable zones of low-mass stars is more common than previously thought….
Based on the study of lava sand grains from the beach of Mauritius, a newly published study from a group of geoscientists suggests that a…
In a newly published study, university researchers propose a new way to probe Earth’s deep interior that relies on a fifth force of nature called…
New findings from the University of Michigan indicate that the early moon was wet and that water there was not substantially lost during the moon’s…
Scientists at Penn State have developed an updated model for determining whether discovered planets fall within a habitable zone. University Park, Pennsylvania — Researchers searching…
June Arctic snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere dropped by almost 18% per decade over the last 30 years. This drop in snow cover will…
Over a century after the Romans gave up control of what’s today Geneva, Switzerland, in 563 A.D., a deadly tsunami on Lake Geneva poured over…
Xenon, the second heaviest of the chemically inert noble gases, seems to have vanished from the Earth’s atmosphere; but German geoscientists think that they figured…
Scientists from the Carnegie Institution for Science are focusing on an old type of meteorite called diogenites to gain a better understanding of the earliest…
A new study found that dissolution or creation of huge gypsum deposits changed sulfate content of the oceans, which resulted in drastic changes in seawater…
While the use of lead gasoline has severally dwindled since the 1970s, the effects on the environment are widespread. Scientists at MIT that have been…