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Simulating Secure Carbon Dioxide Storage
October 23, 2012 — The race is on to develop the most secure solution for storing carbon dioxide in Earth's crust. A small Norwegian company has developed a method for studying precisely how this greenhouse gas is ... > full story -
Rapid Changes in the Earth's Core: The Magnetic Field and Gravity from a Satellite Perspective
October 22, 2012 — Annual to decadal changes in Earth's magnetic field in a region that stretches from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean have a close relationship with variations of gravity in this area. From this it ... > full story -
New Understanding of Antarctica's 'Weight Loss': Sea Level Is Rising With Little Apparent Contribution from Antarctica
October 22, 2012 — Scientists have found that the present sea level rise is happening with apparently very little contribution from Antarctica as a whole. The large amount of water flowing away from West Antarctica ... > full story -
Offsetting Global Warming: Targeting Solar Geoengineering to Minimize Risk and Inequality
October 21, 2012 — By tailoring geoengineering efforts by region and by need, a new model promises to maximize the effectiveness of solar radiation management while mitigating its potential side effects and ... > full story -
Mississippi River Diversion Helped Build Louisiana Wetlands, Geologists Find
October 21, 2012 — Geologists used the occasion of the Mississippi River flood of the spring of 2011 to observe how floodwaters deposited sediment in the Mississippi Delta. Their findings offer insight into how new ... > full story -
World's Largest Earthquake Drill: JPL Scientists Participate in Great California ShakeOut Exercises
October 19, 2012 — On Thursday, Oct. 18, at 10:18 a.m. PDT, more than 9.3 million Californians, including employees at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., "dropped, covered and held on" during the 5th ... > full story -
Tropical Collapse in Early Triassic Caused by Lethal Heat: Extreme Temperatures Blamed for 'Dead Zone'
October 18, 2012 — Scientists have discovered why the 'broken world' following the worst extinction of all time lasted so long -- it was simply too hot to survive. The end-Permian mass extinction, which occurred around ... > full story -
Could a Hurricane Ever Strike Southern California?
October 18, 2012 — There's an old adage (with several variations) that California has four seasons: earthquake, fire, flood and drought. While Californians happily cede the title of Hurricane Capital of America to U.S. ... > full story -
World's Largest Subwoofer: Earthquakes 'Pump' Ground to Produce Infrasound
October 18, 2012 — Earthquakes sway buildings, buckle terrain, and rumble -- both audibly and in infrasound, frequencies below the threshold of human hearing. New computer modeling by a team of researchers indicates ... > full story -
Dinosaur-Era Acoustics: Global Warming May Give Oceans the 'Sound' of the Cretaceous
October 18, 2012 — Global temperatures directly affect the acidity of the ocean, which in turn changes the acoustical properties of sea water. New research suggests that global warming may give Earth’s oceans the ... > full story
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