Social acceptance of geothermal energy: Visualizing consensus building using models
Researchers from Tohoku University modeled the process by which public opinions evolve regarding the development of a geothermal power plant.
Researchers from Tohoku University modeled the process by which public opinions evolve regarding the development of a geothermal power plant.
Social Sciences
Mar 30, 2022
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The geysers and fumaroles of Yellowstone National Park are among the most iconic and popular geological features on our planet. Each year, millions of visitors travel to the park to marvel at the towering eruptions of Old ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 23, 2022
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In the classic example of mountain-building, the Indian and Asian continental plates crashed—and continue colliding today—to form the world's largest and highest geologic structures: the Himalayan Mountains and the Tibetan ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 14, 2022
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Yellowstone National Park is home to more than 10,000 hydrothermal features. The park's hot springs, geysers, mud pots, and fumaroles are home to trillions of heat-loving microbes. For photosynthetic biofilms, the rule of ...
Ecology
Feb 25, 2022
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Fish dart across mosaic floors and into the ruined villas, where holidaying Romans once drank, plotted and flirted in the party town of Baiae, now an underwater archaeological park near Naples.
Archaeology
Aug 21, 2021
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When you picture Yellowstone National Park and its neighbor, Grand Teton, the snowcapped peaks and Old Faithful Geyser almost certainly come to mind. Climate change threatens all of these iconic scenes, and its impact reaches ...
Environment
Jun 24, 2021
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Microscopic organisms known as extremophiles inhabit some of the last places on Earth you might expect to find life, from the extreme pressures of the ocean floor to freezing ice caps. Understanding how these microbes survive ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 10, 2021
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Violent continental collisions and volcanic eruptions are not things normally associated with comfortable conditions for life. However, a new study, involving University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Associate Professor of Microbiology ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 26, 2021
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The tree of life just got a little bigger: A team of scientists from the U.S. and China has identified an entirely new group of microbes quietly living in hot springs, geothermal systems and hydrothermal sediments around ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 23, 2021
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Imagine you're way out in the middle of the Pilbara. There's no one around you, but you may be surprised to learn you're close to the origin of life.
Astrobiology
Feb 11, 2021
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