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Reefs Recovered Faster After Mass Extinction Than First Thought
September 30, 2011 — Metazoan-dominated reefs only took 1.5 million years to recover after the largest species extinction 252 million years ago, paleontologists have found, based on fossils from the southwestern United ... > full storyMore: -
Strong Solar Storm Reaching Earth
September 26, 2011 — NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center -- the nation's official source of warnings and alerts about space weather and its impacts on Earth -- issued a warning for a strong, G3 geomagnetic storm on ... > full story -
Salty Water and Gas Sucked Into Earth's Interior Helps Unravel Planetary Evolution
September 26, 2011 — An international team of scientists has provided new insights into the processes behind the evolution of the planet by demonstrating how salty water and gases transfer from the atmosphere into the ... > full story -
What Makes Rainforests Unique? History, Not Ecology
September 23, 2011 — History and geology, not current ecology, are likely what has made tropical forests so variable from site to site, according to a new ... > full story -
New Metal Hydride Clusters Provide Insights Into Hydrogen Storage
September 22, 2011 — A new study has shed light on a class of heterometallic molecular structures whose unique features point the way to breakthroughs in the development of lightweight fuel cell technology. The ... > full story -
NASA Mars Research Helps Find Buried Water on Earth
September 15, 2011 — A NASA-led team has used radar sounding technology developed to explore the subsurface of Mars to create high-resolution maps of freshwater aquifers buried deep beneath an Earth desert, in the first ... > full story -
Carbon Cycle Reaches Earth's Lower Mantle: Evidence of Carbon Cycle Found in 'Superdeep' Diamonds From Brazil
September 15, 2011 — The carbon cycle, upon which most living things depend, reaches much deeper into Earth than generally supposed -- all the way to the lower mantle, researchers ... > full storyMore: -
The Cause of Earth's Largest Environmental Catastrophe
September 14, 2011 — The eruption of giant masses of magma in Siberia 250 million years ago led to the Permo-Triassic mass extinction when more than 90 % of all species became extinct. Scientists report on a new idea ... > full story -
Strange Vent-Fellows: Chemosynthetic Shrimp, Tubeworms Together for First Time at Hydrothermal Vent
September 13, 2011 — Ocean explorers observed two species of marine life scientists believe have never before been seen together at a hydrothermal vent -- chemosynthetic shrimp and tubeworms. They also observed the first ... > full story -
Sea Levels Much Less Stable Than Earlier Believed, New Coral Dating Method Suggests
September 11, 2011 — New evidence of sea-level oscillations during a warm period that started about 125,000 years ago raises the possibility of a similar scenario if the planet continues its more recent warming trend, ... > full story
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