An international team of researchers headed by scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute has gained new insights into the carbon dioxide exchange between ocean and atmosphere, thus making a significant contribution to ...
Earth Sciences
May 13, 2016
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Wouldn't it be great if scientists could make their minds up? One minute they're telling us our planet is warming up due to human activity and we run the risk of potentially devastating environmental change. Next, they're ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 27, 2015
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New research has revealed abrupt warming, that closely resembles the rapid man-made warming occurring today, has repeatedly played a key role in mass extinction events of large animals, the megafauna, in Earth's past.
Ecology
Jul 23, 2015
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A new study has found that the massive Laurentide ice sheet that covered Canada during the last ice age initially began shrinking through calving of icebergs, and then abruptly shifted into a new regime where melting on the ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 23, 2015
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On May 26, 2015, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that nine scientific instruments had been selected for a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa that will launch in the 2020s.
Space Exploration
Jun 11, 2015
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Until it was banned, leaded gasoline dominated the manmade lead emissions in South America
Environment
Mar 30, 2015
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Although not designed to map changes in Earth's gravity over time, ESA's extraordinary satellite has shown that the ice lost from West Antarctica over the last few years has left its signature.
Earth Sciences
Sep 26, 2014
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It was climate that killed many of the large mammals after the latest Ice Age. But what more specifically was it with the climate that led to this mass extinction? The answer to this is hidden in a large number of sediment ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 5, 2014
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Columbia climatologist Maureen Raymo is trying to predict the planet's future by looking to its past.
Earth Sciences
Oct 31, 2013
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One of the last big unknowns in the global climate equation is Antarctica. How stable is the Antarctic ice sheet? More than a mile thick, on average, it locks up 70 percent of the Earth's fresh water.
Earth Sciences
Sep 27, 2013
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