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Push from Mississippi Kept Deepwater Horizon Oil Slick Off Shore
May 10, 2012 — Geoscientists offer an explanation for why the Deepwater Horizon oil spill didn't have the environmental impact that many had feared. Using publicly available datasets, their study reveals that the ... > full story -
Potential Instability in West Antarctic Ice Sheet from Newly Discovered Basin Size of New Jersey
May 10, 2012 — Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown sub-glacial basin nearly the size of New Jersey beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet near the Weddell Sea. The location, shape and texture of the ... > full story -
New Weak Point Discovered in the Antarctic Ice Sheet
May 9, 2012 — The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, may start to melt rapidly in this century and no longer act as a barrier for ice streams draining the Antarctic Ice Sheet, new ... > full story -
Antarctic Octopus Study Shows West Antarctic Ice Sheet May Have Collapsed 200,000 Years Ago
May 9, 2012 — Scientists have found that genetic information on the Antarctic octopus supports studies indicating that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could have collapsed during its history, possibly as recently as ... > full story -
Plastic Trash Altering Ocean Habitats
May 8, 2012 — A 100-fold upsurge in human-produced plastic garbage in the ocean is altering habitats in the marine environment, according to a new ... > full story -
Effect of Groundwater Use: Using Water from Wells Leads to Sea Level Rise, Cancels out Effect of Dams
May 8, 2012 — As people pump groundwater for irrigation, drinking water, and industrial uses, the water doesn't just seep back into the ground -- it also evaporates into the atmosphere, or runs off into rivers and ... > full story -
70 Percent of Beaches Eroding on Hawaiian Islands Kauai, Oahu, and Maui
May 7, 2012 — An assessment of coastal change over the past century has found 70 percent of beaches on the islands of Kaua»i, O»ahu, and Maui are undergoing long-term erosion, according to new ... > full story -
Stalagmite Research Suggests Earth Has Two Modes of Responding to Change
May 3, 2012 — By analyzing stalagmites, a team of researchers has determined that the climate signature in the tropics through four glacial cycles looks different in some ways and similar in others when compared ... > full story -
Increasing Speed of Greenland Glaciers Gives New Insight for Rising Sea Level
May 3, 2012 — Changes in the speed that ice travels in more than 200 outlet glaciers indicates that Greenland's contribution to rising sea level in the 21st century might be significantly less than the upper ... > full story -
Marine Food Chain Becomes Clearer With New Revelations About Prey Distribution
May 2, 2012 — A new study has found that each step of the marine food chain is clearly controlled by the trophic level below it -- and the driving factor influencing that relationship is not the abundance of prey, ... > full story -
Arctic Sea-Ice Loss Didn't Happen by Chance
May 2, 2012 — The ongoing rapid retreat of Arctic sea ice is often interpreted as the canary in the mine for anthropogenic climate change. In a new study, scientists have now systematically examined the validity ... > full story -
Ireland's Aran Islands: Old Maps and Dead Clams Help Solve Coastal Boulder Mystery
April 30, 2012 — Perched atop the sheer coastal cliffs of Ireland's Aran Islands, ridges of giant boulders have puzzled geologists for years. What forces could have torn these rocks from the cliff edges high above ... > full story
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