Oct. 26, 2020 — A researcher has now discovered that the irregular appearance of interglacials has been more frequent than previously thought. His study makes a significant contribution to our understanding of ...
Oct. 23, 2020 — Emissions from coal-fired power plants in China are fertilizing the North Pacific Ocean with a metal nutrient important for marine life, according to new findings from a research team. The ...
Oct. 23, 2020 — Research has found permafrost to be mostly absent throughout the shallow seafloor along a coastal field site in northeastern Alaska. That means carbon can be released from coastline sources much more ...
Oct. 22, 2020 — Ancient Maya in the once-bustling city of Tikal built sophisticated water filters using natural materials they imported from miles away, according to new research. A multidisciplinary team of ...
Oct. 22, 2020 — Simple actions can dramatically improve a person's chances of surviving a landslide, according to records from 38 landslides in the US and around the world. People who survived landslides tended ...
Oct. 22, 2020 — A new study has revealed that ice loss in Antarctica persisted for many centuries after it was initiated and is expected to ...
Oct. 21, 2020 — Since the 1950s, 'Africanized' honeybees have spread north and south across the Americas until apparently coming to a halt in California and northern Argentina. Now genome sequencing of ...
Oct. 21, 2020 — Marine fish species are migratory in nature and not respectful of human-made territorial boundaries, which represents a challenge for fisheries management as policies tend to focus at the national ...
Oct. 20, 2020 — A paleoseismic trench dug across the Gales Creek fault, located about 35 kilometers (roughly 22 miles) west of Portland, Oregon, documents evidence for three surface-rupturing earthquakes that took ...
Oct. 20, 2020 — A team of geologists believes they have found the lost plate known as Resurrection in northern Canada by using existing mantle tomography ...
Oct. 20, 2020 — For the first time, researchers have mapped the biological diversity of marine sediment, one of Earth's largest global biomes. The research team discovered that microbial diversity in the dark, ...
Oct. 20, 2020 — Over the past three decades, the depths of the Antarctic Weddell Sea have warmed five times faster than the rest of the ocean at depths exceeding 2,000 ...
Oct. 20, 2020 — Mussels, barnacles, and snails are declining in the Gulf of Maine, according to a new article by biologists. Their 20-year dataset reveals that the populations' steady dwindling matches up with ...
Oct. 19, 2020 — Tropical cyclones, regionally known as hurricanes or typhoons, have been moving across ocean basins faster since 1982, according to a new ...
Oct. 19, 2020 — Rocks from the Rio Grande continental rift have provided a rare snapshot of active geology deep inside Earth's crust, revealing new evidence for how continents remain stable over billions of ...
Oct. 19, 2020 — Using luminescence dating of ancient river sediments, a new study presents evidence for river activity at Nal Quarry in the central Thar Desert starting from approx. 173 thousand years ago. These ...
Oct. 19, 2020 — 252 million years ago, at the transition from the Permian to the Triassic epoch, most of the life forms existing on Earth became extinct. Using latest analytical methods and detailed model ...
Oct. 19, 2020 — Month-after-month, year-after-year, the world continues to experience record high temperatures. In response to this and exacerbated by a growing global population, it is expected that ...
Oct. 19, 2020 — Volatile organic compounds identified that can be used for olfactory navigation by homing ...
Oct. 19, 2020 — A new study found that sea lions have the largest negative effect on early-arriving endangered Chinook salmon in the lower Columbia ...
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