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New Report on the State of Polar Regions
April 3, 2012 — A new synthesis of reports from thousands of scientists in 60 countries who took part in the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-08, is the first in over 50 years to offer a benchmark for ... > full story -
Amount of Coldest Antarctic Water Near Ocean Floor Decreasing for Decades
April 3, 2012 — Scientists have found a large reduction in the amount of the coldest deep ocean water, called Antarctic Bottom Water, all around the Southern Ocean using data collected from 1980 to ... > full story -
Coral Links Ice Sheet Collapse to Ancient 'Mega Flood'
April 3, 2012 — Coral off Tahiti has linked the collapse of massive ice sheets 14,600 years ago to a dramatic and rapid rise in global sea-levels of around 14 ... > full story -
New Understanding to Past Global Warming Events: Hyperthermal Events May Be Triggered by Warming
April 2, 2012 — A series of global warming events called hyperthermals that occurred more than 50 million years ago had a similar origin to a much larger hyperthermal of the period, the Pelaeocene-Eocene Thermal ... > full story -
Discovery of the First Evidence for Pre-Columbian Sources of Maya Blue
April 2, 2012 — A team of scientists has established a link between contemporary indigenous knowledge and ancient sources of a mineral in the pigment known as Maya Blue. They have demonstrated that the palygorskite ... > full story -
Ancient Egyptian Cotton Unveils Secrets of Domesticated Crop Evolution
April 2, 2012 — Scientists studying 1,600-year-old cotton from the banks of the Nile have found what they believe is the first evidence that punctuated evolution has occurred in a major crop group within the ... > full story -
The Role of Physics in the Sinking of the Titanic
April 1, 2012 — A century on from the sinking of the Titanic, science writer Richard Corfield takes a look at the cascade of events that led to the demise of the "unsinkable" ship, taking into account the maths and ... > full story -
Organics Probably Formed Easily in Early Solar System
March 30, 2012 — Complex organic compounds, including many important to life on Earth, were readily produced under conditions that likely prevailed in the primordial solar system. Scientists came to this conclusion ... > full story -
Precipitation Impacts Glacial Melt, Patagonian Glacier Study Suggests
March 30, 2012 — Glaciers play a vital role in Earth’s climate system, and it’s critical to understand what contributes to their fluctuation. Increased global temperatures are frequently viewed as the ... > full story -
Measuring the Cosmic Dust Swept Up by Earth
March 29, 2012 — Although we think of space as being empty, there is more out there than meets the eye – dust, for example, is everywhere. If all the material between the Sun and Jupiter were compressed ... > full story
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