Spring break can be a good time for ski trips—the days are longer and a little warmer. But if people are booking their spring skiing trips the fall before, it's hard to know which areas will have the best snow coverage ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 12, 2023
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An international team of scientists has successfully conducted large-scale helicopter-based observations along the coast of East Antarctica and has identified pathways through which warm ocean water flows from the open ocean ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 11, 2023
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By the time they were over, a series of massive algal blooms along the west coast of Florida in 2020 would be linked to some 2,000 tons of dead marine life around Tampa Bay. The human costs were stark, too, including a double-digit ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 7, 2023
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One in five glaciers on Earth are covered with a layer of rocky debris. The presence of debris influences how glaciers melt. In the Himalaya, debris covers most large glaciers, and it is so thick that it should insulate the ...
For more than 30 years, the models that researchers and government agencies use to forecast earthquake aftershocks have remained largely unchanged. While these older models work well with limited data, they struggle with ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 1, 2023
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The water temperature at the bottom of the Bornholm Basin in the central Baltic Sea has risen faster in recent decades than at the surface. Warnemünde researchers have now been able to explain this unusual development with ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 28, 2023
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It's the perfect fuel for storms: warm ocean water, at least 80° Fahrenheit. Without it, powerful storms like Andrew, Katrina, and Ian would never have formed.
Plants & Animals
Aug 27, 2023
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Warmer temperatures and increasing drought severity associated with climate change are contributing to more frequent and more severe wildfires across North America.
Earth Sciences
Aug 22, 2023
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Seismology has been ubiquitous on Earth for decades, and missions such as InSight have recently provided the same data for the inside of Mars. Understanding a planet's inner workings is key to understanding its geology and ...
Planetary Sciences
Aug 21, 2023
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Recently, a study by Associate Prof. Sheng Chen and Prof. Fangli Qiao from the First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources was published in Science China Earth Sciences. The observational data from a coastal ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 16, 2023
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