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Underwater Telecom Cables Make Superb Seismic Network

November 29, 2019

Test under Monterey Bay shows undersea fiber-optic cables can detect quakes, fault systems

Rice Yields Plummet and Arsenic Rises in Future Climate-Soil Scenarios

November 1, 2019

While the dramatic loss in production is a major cause for concern, the scientists are hopeful that this research will help p...

Two-Million-Year-Old Ice Provides Snapshot of Earth's Greenhouse Gas History

November 1, 2019

Previously, the oldest complete ice core provided data back to 800,000 years

Martian Landslides Not Conclusive Evidence of Ice

October 25, 2019

Research findings show for the first time that the unique structures on Martian landslides could have formed at high spe...

Geologists Find Links between Deep Sea Methane Emissions and Ice Ages

September 12, 2019

Methane is one of the most aggressive climate-warming greenhouse gases, while being also an important energy resource

Scientists Successfully Inoculate, Grow Crops in Salt-Damaged Soil

August 23, 2019

High-salinity land now unable to sustain plant life could once again be used

Superdeep Diamonds Confirm Ancient Reservoir Deep under Earth's Surface

August 16, 2019

Scientists have long suspected that an area of the Earth's mantle, somewhere between the crust and the core, contains a vast ...

Drop of Ancient Seawater Rewrites Earth's History

August 5, 2019

Research reveals that plate tectonics started on Earth 600 million years before what was believed

Water Drives Explosive Eruptions

July 8, 2019

Experimental geochemists have discovered compelling evidence that magmas may be wetter than once thought

Solved: How Tides Can Trigger Earthquakes

June 7, 2019

Years ago, scientists realized that earthquakes along mid-ocean ridges are linked with the tides. But nobody could figur...

Scientists Find Telling Early Moment That Indicates a Coming Megaquake

May 30, 2019

Just 10 seconds into a quake, GPS data can detect signs of acceleration that point to an event's magnitude

Beaches near Hiroshima Littered with Glassy Beads from Atomic Bomb Blast

May 28, 2019

The beads formed in the atomic cloud from melted or vaporized concrete, marble, stainless steel, and rubber

Oldest Meteorite Collection on Earth Found in One of the Driest Places

May 24, 2019

To recover a meteorite record for millions of years, the researchers headed to the Atacama Desert

How Earth's Mantle is Like a Jackson Pollock Painting

May 21, 2019

A new paper paints an even more intricate picture of Earth's mantle as a geochemically diverse mosaic

From Earth’s Deep Mantle, Scientists Discover a New Way Volcanoes Form

May 16, 2019

Cornell geoscientists have discovered the first direct evidence that material from deep within Earth’s mantle transitio...

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