Massive Sahara dust plume headed for southeastern US, could bring sensational sunsets
The southeastern U.S. is getting dusted by the Sahara.
Earth Sciences
Jun 18, 2020
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India heatwave temperatures pass 50 Celsius
Temperatures passed 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in northern India as an unrelenting heatwave triggered warnings of water shortages and heatstroke.
Environment
Jun 2, 2019
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Earth's inner core rotating slower than surface, study suggests (Update)
Earth's inner core, a hot iron ball the size of Pluto, has stopped spinning faster than the planet's surface and might now be rotating slower than it, research suggested on Monday.
Earth Sciences
Jan 24, 2023
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Pieces of mantle found rising under north and south ends of Cascadia fault
With four years of data from 268 seismometers on the ocean floor and several hundred on land, researchers have found anomalies in the upper mantle below both ends of the Cascadia Subduction Zone. They may influence the location, ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 25, 2018
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Scientists outline a bold solution to climate change, biodiversity loss, social injustice
An international team of scientists led by Oregon State University researchers has used a novel 500-year dataset to frame a "restorative" pathway through which humanity can avoid the worst ecological and social outcomes of ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 9, 2024
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Europe's lost forests – study shows coverage has halved over six millennia
More than half of Europe's forests have disappeared over the past 6,000 years thanks to increasing demand for agricultural land and the use of wood as a source of fuel, new research led by the University of Plymouth suggests.
Environment
Jan 15, 2018
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Scientists propose new hypothesis on the origin of life
The Miller-Urey experiment, conducted by chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey in 1953, is the classic experiment on the origin of life. It established that the early Earth atmosphere, as they pictured it, was capable of ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 4, 2009
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Study shows EV owners have bigger carbon footprint than average because they are wealthier
A pair of psychologists and an economist at the University of Turku, in Finland, have found that because the average electric vehicle (EV) owner is wealthier than the average person, they still have a bigger than average ...
Insatiable demand for cannabis has created a giant carbon footprint
It's no secret that the United States' $13 billion cannabis industry is big business. Less obvious to many is the environmental toll this booming business is taking, in the form of greenhouse gas emissions from commercial, ...
Environment
Mar 8, 2021
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Observing clouds in four dimensions
While easily seen by people, the cotton-ball clouds (called shallow cumulus clouds) that drift overhead on partly cloudy days are hard for radars and many other instruments to observe and, therefore, hard to model and predict. ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 15, 2019
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