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Plant Stress Paints Early Picture of Drought
December 5, 2012 — In July 2012, farmers in the U.S. Midwest and Plains regions watched crops wilt and die after a stretch of unusually low precipitation and high temperatures. Before a lack of rain and record-breaking ... > full story -
NASA-NOAA Satellite Reveals New Views of Earth at Night
December 5, 2012 — Scientists have unveiled an unprecedented new look at our planet at night. A global composite image, constructed using cloud-free night images from a new NASA and NOAA satellite, shows the glow of ... > full story -
Invasive Grass Fuels Increased Fire Activity in the West
December 5, 2012 — An invasive grass species may be one reason fires are bigger and more frequent in certain regions of the western United States, according to a team of ... > full story -
Many Maps of the Brain
December 5, 2012 — Your brain has at least four different senses of location – and perhaps as many as 10. And each is different, according to new ... > full story -
Madagascar Gets Tough With Poachers
December 5, 2012 — The Wildlife Conservation Society congratulates Madagascar’s Ministry of Fisheries and local communities around Ankarea Marine Protected Area (MPA) for eliminating illegal sea cucumber ... > full story -
Fire and Ice: Wildfires Darkening Greenland Snowpack, Increasing Melting
December 5, 2012 — Satellite observations have revealed the first direct evidence of smoke from Arctic wildfires drifting over the Greenland ice sheet, tarnishing the ice with soot and making it more likely to melt ... > full story -
Africa's Homo Sapiens Were the First Techies
December 5, 2012 — The search for the origin of modern human behavior and technological advancement among our ancestors in southern Africa some 70,000 years ago has taken a step closer to firmly establishing Africa, ... > full story -
Great-Earthquake Hot Spots Pinpointed
December 5, 2012 — The world's largest earthquakes occur at subduction zones – locations where a tectonic plate slips under another. But where along these extended subduction areas are great earthquakes most ... > full story -
Oceanography Student Uses Crashing Waves on Shorelines to Study Earth's Interior
December 5, 2012 — Scientists have long used the speed of seismic waves traveling through the Earth as a means of learning about the geologic structure beneath the Earth's surface, but the seismic waves they use have ... > full story -
Seeing Stars, Finding Nukes: Radio Telescopes Can Spot Clandestine Nuclear Tests
December 5, 2012 — In the search for rogue nukes, researchers have discovered an unlikely tool: astronomical radio telescopes. Researchers from the same university previously demonstrated another unlikely tool, when ... > full story
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