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Fossil Leaves Depict Warm, High Sierra Nevada Mountains in Ancient Past

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by Yale University geologists has reconstructed the climate and elevation of California’s northern Sierra Nevada mountains using organic materials derived from ancient leaves and ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 06, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Next generation digital maps are laser sharp

Restoring habitat for spawning species of fish, such as Atlantic salmon, starts with a geological inventory of suitable rivers and streams, and the watershed systems that support them. But the high-tech mapping ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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New study reports rise in community land rights in tropical forests; most laws unenforced

New research released today by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) shows that hundreds of millions of forest peoples in tropical nations have, in the last 20 years, quietly gained unprecedented legal rights to the land ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers conclude that climate change led to collapse of ancient Indus civilization

A new study combining the latest archaeological evidence with state-of-the-art geoscience technologies provides evidence that climate change was a key ingredient in the collapse of the great Indus or Harappan Civilization ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

Gravity changes along the Moon

Using detailed topographic information from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, Curtin’s Western Australian School of Mines (WASM) spatial scientists, Dr. Christian Hirt and Professor Will ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Atmospheric origin of Martian interior layered deposits: Links to climate change and the global sulfur cycle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) and NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) have proposed a new hypothesis to explain a class of enigmatic geologic features on Mars that have ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A close-up view of Mercury: Researchers find the planet may have had a dynamic past

New observations from a spacecraft orbiting Mercury have revealed that the tiny, pockmarked planet harbors a highly unusual interior — and the craft’s glimpse of Mercury’s surface topography ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Mercury's surprising core and landscape curiosities

(PhysOrg.com) -- On March 17, the tiny MESSENGER spacecraft completed its primary mission to orbit and observe the planet Mercury for one Earth-year. The bounty of surprises from the mission has completely ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

NASA's IceBridge 2012 Arctic campaign takes to the skies

Researchers and flight crew with NASA's Operation IceBridge, an airborne mission to study changes in polar ice, began another season of science activity with the start of the 2012 Arctic campaign on March 13. From mid-March ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | 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 ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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

Researchers combine mobile phone technology and microscopy

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed an optical accessory that turns an ordinary camera phone into a high-resolution microscope. The device is accurate to one hundredth of a millimetre. Among those who will ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Oldest obsidian bracelet reveals amazing craftsmen's skills in the eighth millennium BC

Researchers from the Institut Français d'Etudes Anatoliennes in Istanbul and the Laboratoire de Tribologie et de Dynamiques des Systèmes have analyzed the oldest obsidian bracelet ever identified, ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 16


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