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Climate Change May Have Little Impact on Tropical Lizards: Study Contradicts Predictions of Widespread Extinction
May 17, 2013 — Climate change may have little impact on many species of tropical lizards, contradicting a host of recent studies that predict their widespread extinction in a rapidly warming ... > full story -
GPS Solution Provides Three-Minute Tsunami Alerts
May 17, 2013 — Researchers have shown that, by using global positioning systems (GPS) to measure ground deformation caused by a large underwater earthquake, they can provide accurate warning of the resulting ... > full story -
Agriculture in China Predates Domesticated Rice: Discovery of Ancient Diet Shatters Conventional Ideas of How Agriculture Emerged
May 17, 2013 — Archaeologists have made a discovery in southern subtropical China which could revolutionize thinking about how ancient humans lived in the region. They have uncovered evidence for the first time ... > full storyMore: -
First Ever Underwater University Lectures
May 17, 2013 — Students at the University of Essex have taken their lectures to a whole new level -- 18 metres under the sea in remote Indonesia to be ... > full story -
Topography of Eastern Seaboard Muddles Ancient Sea Level Changes
May 16, 2013 — The distortion of the ancient shoreline and flooding surface of the US Atlantic Coastal Plain are the direct result of fluctuations in topography in the region and could have implications on ... > full story -
How Should Geophysics Contribute to Disaster Planning?
May 16, 2013 — Earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters often showcase the worst in human suffering – especially when those disasters strike populations who live in rapidly growing communities in ... > full story -
Team Wins Cubesat Berth to Gather Earth Energy Imbalance Measurements
May 16, 2013 — A team of scientists has won a berth on a tiny satellite to explore one of NASA's most important frontiers in climate studies: the imbalance in Earth's energy budget and the extent to which ... > full story -
Research Into Carbon Storage in Arctic Tundra Reveals Unexpected Insight Into Ecosystem Resiliency
May 16, 2013 — When a doctoral student and her advisor went north not long ago to study how long-term warming in the Arctic affects carbon storage, they had made certain ... > full story -
World's Biggest Ice Sheets Likely More Stable Than Previously Believed
May 16, 2013 — A new study suggests that the previous connections scientists made between ancient shoreline height and ice volumes are erroneous and that perhaps our ice sheets were more stable in the past than we ... > full story -
World's Melting Glaciers Making Large Contribution to Sea Rise
May 16, 2013 — While 99 percent of Earth's land ice is locked up in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the remaining ice in the world's glaciers contributed just as much to sea rise as the two ice sheets ... > full story
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