Climate change stories from the abyss
An international team of scientists have shed new light on the world's history of climate change.
Earth Sciences
Aug 29, 2012
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Page 2 - News tagged with core drilling
New estimate of living biomass: One third less life on planet Earth
Estimates of the total mass of all life on Earth should be reduced by about one third, based on the results of a study by a team of scientists at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography and colleagues ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 27, 2012
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Tropical climate in the Antarctic: Palm trees thrived on today's icy coasts 52 million years ago
An international research team has discovered an intense warming phase around 52 million years ago in drill cores obtained from the seafloor near Antarctica.
Earth Sciences
Aug 1, 2012
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Scientists core into California's Clear Lake to explore past climate change
(Phys.org) -- University of California, Berkeley, scientists are drilling into ancient sediments at the bottom of Northern California's Clear Lake for clues that could help them better predict how today's plants and animals ...
Earth Sciences
May 3, 2012
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Gas hydrate strategy reinforced
Their critics weren't convinced the first time, but Rice University researchers didn't give up on the "ice that burns."
Earth Sciences
Sep 15, 2011
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800,000 years of Greenland's abrupt climate variability
An international team of scientists, led by Dr Stephen Barker of Cardiff University, has produced a prediction of what climate records from Greenland might look like over the last 800,000 years.
Earth Sciences
Sep 8, 2011
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Scientists study earthquake triggers in Pacific ocean
(PhysOrg.com) -- New samples of rock and sediment from the depths of the eastern Pacific Ocean may help explain the cause of large, destructive earthquakes similar to the Tohoku Earthquake that struck Japan in mid-March.
Earth Sciences
Jun 29, 2011
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Ice age permafrost unearthed in Poland to help clock warming
Permafrost dating from the end of the last Ice Age around 13,000 years ago recently discovered in Poland could prove an invaluable tool in gauging global warming, Polish geologists said on Friday.
Earth Sciences
Aug 6, 2010
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New Danish research shows how oil gets stuck underground
It is a mystery to many people why the world is running out of oil when most of the world's oilfields have only been half emptied. However some of the oil that has been located is trapped as droplets of oil in small cavities ...
Earth Sciences
May 11, 2009
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Study shows limestone can serve as a repository of microbial genetic information about the deep biosphere
Most of the Earth's microbial biomass is hidden in the subsurface. According to estimates, microorganisms can be found at depth of up to five kilometers below the continental surface. Here they also colonize solid rock. Since ...
Cell & Microbiology
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