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Diamonds pinpoint start of colliding continents

Jewelers abhor diamond impurities, but they are a bonanza for scientists. Safely encased in the super-hard diamond, impurities are unaltered, ancient minerals that can tell the story of Earth's distant past. ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

These crocs were made for chewing? Mammal-like crocodile fossil found in East Africa (w/ Video)

Fossils of an ancient crocodile with mammal-like teeth have been discovered in the Rukwa Rift Basin of Tanzania, scientists report in this week's issue of the journal Nature. The unusual creature is changi ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Epidemic this year? Check the lake's shape

Of all the things that might control the onset of disease epidemics in Michigan lakes, the shape of the lakes' bottoms might seem unlikely. But that is precisely the case, and a new BioScience report by sci ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

African desert rift confirmed as new ocean in the making

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of the African continent pulled ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (37) | comments 8

New fossil primate suggests common Asian ancestor, challenges primates such as 'Ida'

According to new research published online in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Biological Sciences) on July 1, 2009, a new fossil primate from Myanmar (previously known as Burma) suggests that the co ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 0

A Hidden Drip, Drip, Drip Beneath Earth's Surface

(PhysOrg.com) -- There are very few places in the world where dynamic activity taking place beneath Earth's surface goes undetected.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 4

The rise of oxygen caused Earth's earliest ice age

(PhysOrg.com) -- Geologists may have uncovered the answer to an age-old question - an ice-age-old question, that is. It appears that Earth's earliest ice ages may have been due to the rise of oxygen in Earth's ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 6

Hurricanes not likely to disrupt ocean carbon balance

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hurricanes are well known for the trail of damage and debris they can leave on land, but less known for the invisible trail left over the ocean by their gale-force winds — a trail of carbon ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Questions about incredible sea turtle migration answered

Immediately after emerging from their underground nests on the lush beaches of eastern Florida, loggerhead sea turtles scramble into the sea and embark alone on a migration that takes them around the entire ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

2001-2010 warmest decade on record: WMO

Climate change has accelerated in the past decade, the UN weather agency said Friday, releasing data showing that 2001 to 2010 was the warmest decade on record.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (34) | comments 176

Google opens Amazon wilds to armchair explorers

Google's free online map service on Wednesday began letting people explore portions of the Amazon Basin from the comfort of their homes.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Volcanoes deliver two flavors of water

Seawater circulation pumps hydrogen and boron into the oceanic plates that make up the seafloor, and some of this seawater remains trapped as the plates descend into the mantle at areas called subduction zones. ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 26, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Study finds southern Indian Ocean humpbacks singing different tunes

A recently published study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and others reveals that humpback whales on both sides of the southern Indian Ocean are singing different tunes, unusual since humpbacks in the ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New study evaluates impact of land use activity in the Amazon basin

A new paper published today in Nature reveals that human land use activity has begun to change the regional water and energy cycles-the interplay of air coming in from the Atlantic Ocean, water transpiration by the forest ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Evidence of past Southern hemisphere rainfall cycles related to Antarctic temperatures

Geoscientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Minnesota this week published the first evidence that warm-cold climate oscillations well known in the Northern Hemisphere over ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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