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Geologist investigates canyon carved in just three days in Texas flood

In the summer of 2002, a week of heavy rains in Central Texas caused Canyon Lake -- the reservoir of the Canyon Dam -- to flood over its spillway and down the Guadalupe River Valley in a planned diversion ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 20, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (28) | comments 111 | with audio podcast

Salazar calls for high flows into Colorado River

(AP) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is calling for more manmade floods to be released from the Glen Canyon Dam into the Colorado River.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Three-toed horses reveal the secret of the Tibetan Plateau uplift

The Tibetan Plateau is the youngest and highest plateau on Earth, and its elevation reaches one-third of the height of the troposphere, with profound dynamic and thermal effects on atmospheric circulation ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Drilling fees pay for new national forest lands

(AP) -- Offshore drilling fees are financing the purchase of $41.6 million worth of new national forest lands in 15 states.

Space & Earth / Environment

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Study compares growth around Yellowstone, Glacier and other national parks

The land around Yellowstone and Glacier national parks might look like it's filling up with people and houses, but it's nothing compared to the rate of development around some other U.S. national parks, according to a new ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Land-ocean connections

Scientists from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaii – Manoa (UHM) and colleagues recently discovered that land-based plant material and coastal macroalgae ...

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created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The legacy of the megaflood

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ambling through the parched and scarred landscape of eastern Washington state is the 60-mile-long Grand Coulee, the largest of the stair-step canyons that give the region called the Channeled ...

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created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Ecologists record and study deep-sea fish noises

University of Massachusetts Amherst fish biologists have published one of the first studies of deep-sea fish sounds in more than 50 years, collected from the sea floor about 2,237 feet (682 meters) below the ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Topography played key role in Deepwater Horizon disaster, researchers say

When UC Santa Barbara geochemist David Valentine and colleagues published a study in early 2011 documenting how bacteria blooms had consumed almost all of the deepwater methane plumes following the Deepwater ...

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created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Seven natural wonders of the world set to be unveiled

The Dead Sea, Vietnam's Halong Bay and Australia's Great Barrier Reef are among 28 contenders to be crowned among the world's new seven wonders of nature on Friday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 8

The landing-site specialist

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gale crater has been sitting just below the equator of Mars, minding its own business, for at least three and half billion years. But in August 2012, a capsule is going to come screaming out ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Severe drought, other changes can cause permanent ecosystem disruption

(PhysOrg.com) -- An eight-year study has concluded that increasingly frequent and severe drought, dropping water tables and dried-up springs have pushed some aquatic desert ecosystems into “catastrophic ...

Biology / Ecology

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