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Intricate, Often Invisible Land-Sea Ecological Chains of Life Threatened With Extinction Around the World
Intricate, often invisible
chains of life are
threatened with extinction
around the world. A new
study quantifies one of the
... > full story
Unparalleled Views of Earth's Coastal Zone With HREP-HICO
Scanning the globe from the
vantage point of the
International Space Station
is about more than the
fantastic view. While
cruising in low Earth orbit,
... > full story
NASA Survey Counts Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
Observations from NASA's
Wide-field Infrared Survey
Explorer (WISE) have led to
the best assessment yet of
our solar system's
population of potentially
... > full story
Common Fungicide Wreaks Havoc on Freshwater Ecosystems
A new study on
chlorothalonil, one of the
world's most common
fungicides, shows it was
lethal to a wide variety of
freshwater organisms. ... > full story
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Sumatra Faces Yet Another Risk: Major Volcanic Eruptions
May 16, 2012 — The early April earthquake of magnitude 8.6 that shook Sumatra was a grim reminder of the devastating earthquakes and tsunami that killed tens of thousands of people in 2004 and 2005. Now a new study ... > full story -
Chocolate and Diamonds: Why Volcanoes Could Be 'a Girl's Best Friend'
May 16, 2012 — Scientists have discovered a previously unrecognized volcanic process, similar to one that is used in chocolate manufacturing, which gives important new insights into the dynamics of volcanic ... > full story -
Sulfur Finding May Hold Key to Gaia Theory of Earth as Living Organism
May 15, 2012 — Is Earth really a sort of giant living organism as the Gaia hypothesis predicts? A new discovery may provide a key to answering this question. This key of sulfur could allow scientists to unlock ... > full story -
Ancient Plant-Fungal Partnerships Reveal How the World Became Green
May 15, 2012 — Prehistoric plants grown in state-of-the-art growth chambers recreating environmental conditions from more than 400 million years ago have shown scientists how soil dwelling fungi played a crucial ... > full story -
Statistical Analysis Projects Future Temperatures in North America
May 15, 2012 — For the first time, researchers have been able to combine different climate models using spatial statistics -- to project future seasonal temperature changes in regions across North ... > full story -
Arctic Seabirds Adapt to Climate Change
May 15, 2012 — The planet is warming up, especially at the poles. How do organisms react to this rise in temperatures? Biologists have now shown that little auks, the most common seabirds in the Arctic, are ... > full story -
Meteorite Discovery Spurs Hunt for More Pieces
May 12, 2012 — Meteorite fragments were recently scattered around Sutter's Mill in California, the same region where the first nugget of gold was found that sparked the Gold Rush in 1848. Scientists believe the ... > full story -
Mojave Desert Tests Prepare for NASA Mars Roving
May 12, 2012 — Team members of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission took a test rover to Dumont Dunes in California's Mojave Desert this week to improve knowledge of the best way to operate a similar rover, ... > full story -
NASA's New Carbon-Counting Instrument Leaves the Nest
May 12, 2012 — Its construction now complete, the science instrument that is the heart of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) spacecraft -- NASA's first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon ... > full story -
Population Pressure Impacts World Wetlands
May 11, 2012 — The area of the globe covered by wetlands (swamps, marshes, lakes, etc.) has dropped by 6% in fifteen years. This decline is particularly severe in tropical and subtropical regions, and in areas that ... > full story
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