News tagged with kamchatka
Scientists see big 'scientific event' as Pacific whales turn up far from home
When scientists fired a cigar-sized satellite tag into the blubber of a western gray whale off Russia's Sakhalin Island in September, they expected to track her along Asia's Pacific shoreline down to the South China Sea.
Feb 17, 2012 |
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Scientists shocked by behavior of rare gray whale
Scientists tracking a rare western Pacific gray whale were shocked last winter when the endangered animal left the Asian coast, crossed the Bering Sea and swam south along Alaska, British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest ...
Sep 14, 2011 |
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NASA's Aqua satellite catches glimpse of Russia's active volcanoes
NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the erupting Shiveluch Volcano in Russia yesterday and captured a visible image of its ash plume. Shiveluch is one of Russia's most active volcano and is currently spewing a ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2010 |
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Prehistoric response to global warming informs human planning today
Since 2004, University at Buffalo anthropologist Ezra Zubrow has worked intensively with teams of scientists in the Arctic regions of St. James Bay, Quebec, northern Finland and Kamchatka to understand how ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 10, 2010 |
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Russia gains new land after quake, lava flows: scientist
Russia, the world's largest country, has grown even larger recently thanks to an earthquake and a volcanic eruption in its seismically active far eastern regions, a scientist said on Friday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Satellite imagery shows Typhoon Vamco has a huge 45-mile wide eye
Typhoon Vamco is being as stubborn in its quest to live in the Pacific Ocean as Bill is in the Atlantic Ocean this week, and NASA satellite data confirmed that the large storm has a huge eye, about 45 miles ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 24, 2009 |
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Steppe change: Mammoths roamed southern Spain
Remains of woolly mammoths have been found in southern Spain, proving that the chilly grip of the last Ice Age extended farther south than thought, palaeontologists said on Thursday.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Obsidian 'trail' provides clues to how humans settled, interacted in Kuril Islands
(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists have used stone tools to answer many questions about human ancestors in both the distant and near past and now they are analyzing the origin of obsidian flakes to better understand ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 22, 2009 |
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