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Amazon River Exhales Virtually All Carbon Taken Up by Rainforest
May 20, 2013 — Woody plant matter is almost completely digested by bacteria living in the Amazon River. This tough stuff plays a major part in fueling the river's breath. The finding has implications for global ... > full story -
Slow Earthquakes: It's All in the Rock Mechanics
May 20, 2013 — Earthquakes that last minutes rather than seconds are a relatively recent discovery, according to an international team of seismologists. Researchers have been aware of these slow earthquakes, only ... > full story -
Why We Need to Put the Fish Back Into Fisheries
May 19, 2013 — Overfishing has reduced fish populations and biodiversity across much of the world’s oceans. In response, fisheries are increasingly reliant on a handful of highly valuable shellfish. However, ... > full story -
Roots of Future Tropical Rainfall: Sea Level Influenced Tropical Climate During the Last Ice Age
May 19, 2013 — How will rainfall patterns across the tropical Indian and Pacific regions change in a future warming world? Climate models generally suggest that the tropics as a whole will get wetter, but the ... > 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 -
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 -
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 -
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Change in Cycle Track Policy Needed to Boost Ridership, Public Health
May 16, 2013 — Bicycle engineering guidelines often used by state regulators to design bicycle facilities need to be overhauled to reflect current cyclists' preferences and safety data, according to a new study. ... > 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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