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Piecing together the Pangea puzzle
ENLARGE > Thick black and magenta lines show northern boundaries of India and Arabia and southern boundary ofEurasian craton. Dashed light-green line marks outer margin of Pangeides active margin....
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Study offers new insights on hurricane intensity, pollution transport
This is a view of the ocean below Tropical Storm Isaac taken during a research flight. Credit: Jodi Brewster, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science As tropical storm...
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Tracking the retreat of Arctic ice
Not so long ago, skeleton staff overwintering at the Ny-Alesund research centre could walk on the Arctic town's frozen bay and race their snow mobiles across its surface Not so long ago, skeleton...
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‘Snowball earth’ might be slushy
Imagine a world without liquid water—just solid ice in all directions. It would certainly not be a place that most life forms would like to live. Credit: MIT Artist concept of a planet-wide Ice Age on...
View ArticleIn Africa, more smoke leads to less rain, NASA shows
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of numerous fires burning in the transition zone between the Sahara Desert to the north and...
View ArticleWhy Hawaii’s Mauna Kea are so coveted by the science community
This undated file artist rendering made available by the TMT Observatory Corporation shows the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope, planned to be built atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Gov. (AP/TMT Observatory...
View ArticleFirst use of ISS astronaut pictures for light pollution studies
ENLARGE > This image of Milan was acquired after the transition to LED technology in the center. The illumination levels appear to be similar or even brighter in the center than the suburbs, and the...
View ArticlePanama declares drought emergency
Authorities say the Panama canal, which connects the Pacific and the Atlantic through the Caribbean, will temporarily limit the size of ships using the waterway due to drought Panama's government has...
View ArticleScientists find new way to assess the health of vulnerable, valuable coastal...
To determine if one can use sound as a proxy measurement of coral reef biodiversity, Max Kaplan (shown) and his colleagues set up autonomous underwater recording devices on three reefs in U.S. Virgin...
View ArticleGreenland ice sheet’s winds driving tundra soil erosion, study finds
Strong winds blowing off the Greenland Ice Sheet are eroding soil and vegetation in the surrounding tundra, making it less productive for caribou and other grazing animals, carbon storage and nutrient...
View ArticleOceanographers solve mystery of beach explosion
When an explosion beneath the sand at Salty Brine State Beach in Narragansett injured a visiting vacationer, state and local police and the bomb squad found no evidence of what may have caused the...
View ArticleNew insights from Africa put classical mantle plume theory in question
A composite image of the Western hemisphere of the Earth. Credit: NASA When the western part of the super-continent Gondwana broke up around 130 Million years ago, today's Africa and South-America...
View ArticleAmazon slowly eaten away by gold rush’s illegal mines
Seen from above, the Amazon resembles a huge billiards table—a field of intense green pockmarked by brown stains Seen from above, the Amazon resembles a huge billiards table—a field of intense green...
View ArticleNational challenge of leaking mines dwarfs Colorado spill
Wastewater flows from a trough and down a steep ravine at the site of the blowout at the Gold King mine which triggered a major spill of toxic wastewater, outside Silverton, Colo., Thursday, Aug. 13,...
View ArticleMapping international claims to the Arctic seabed
New Arctic map, with August 2015 Russian claims shown in pale yellow While maps can certainly enlighten and educate, they can just as easily be used to support certain political narratives. With this...
View ArticleCritics of carbon regulations using mine spill to skewer EPA
Water flows through a series of sediment retention ponds built to reduce heavy metal and chemical contaminants from the Gold King Mine wastewater accident, in the spillway about 1/4 mile downstream...
View ArticleHow Life and Luck Changed Earth’s Minerals
The Danxia landform in Zhangye, China. RATNAKORN PIYASIRISOROST Is evolution predictable, or was it heavily shaped byrandom events? Biologists have argued over this question for decades. Some have...
View ArticleDamaging electric currents in space affect Earth’s equatorial region, not...
When the sun flares, space weather is on its way to Earth. Credit: NASA/SDO, CC BY Enlarge The Earth's magnetic field – known as the "magnetosphere" – protects our atmosphere from the "solar wind."...
View ArticleOn warmer Earth, most of Arctic may remove, not add, methane
Mosaic of images of the Arctic by MODIS. Credit: NASA In addition to melting icecaps and imperiled wildlife, a significant concern among scientists is that higher Arctic temperatures brought about by...
View ArticleGhostly Particles Detected Beneath Earth
The researchers detected neutrinos in Earth's mantle using the Borexino detector buried under a mountain at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy. Credit: Courtesy: INFN – Gran Sasso National...
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