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Environment - Earth Sciences - 23.09.2024
Evaluating the flow of information for high-impact weather events
Sixteen years to the day Hurricane Katrina devastated Louisiana, Ida slammed into the Gulf Coast state's seaport town of Port Fourchon as a Category 4 cyclone on Aug.

Earth Sciences - Physics - 20.09.2024
Two UCalgary professors named as Fellows of the American Geophysical Union

Materials Science - Earth Sciences - 19.09.2024
Building better batteries key to Western's role in growing electric vehicle industry
Building better batteries key to Western’s role in growing electric vehicle industry

Earth Sciences - History / Archeology - 19.09.2024
MIT course helps researchers crack secrets of ancient pottery
A summer class teaches PhD students and early-career archaeologists ceramic petrography, revealing the origins and production methods of past societies.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 18.09.2024
’The environmental transition is a strategic opportunity for the CNRS’
To facilitate the implementation of its environmental transition plan and provide ongoing support for this, the CNRS recently appointed a scientific officer for sustainable development and risks.

Earth Sciences - Environment - 18.09.2024
Explaining dramatic planetwide changes after world’s last ’Snowball Earth’ event
Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are "Snowball Earth" events that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, when almost the entire planet was encased in ice up to 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) thick.

Earth Sciences - 17.09.2024
An innovative system for seeing into the bowels of volcanos
An innovative system for seeing into the bowels of volcanos
A team of researchers from the CNRS and the Paris Institute of Planetary Physics 1 has developed an innovative imaging method that can probe the bowels of a volcano with unparalleled resolution and depth.

Earth Sciences - Astronomy / Space - 17.09.2024
Bridging the heavens and Earth
EAPS PhD candidate Jared Bryan found a way to use his research on earthquakes to help understand exoplanet migration.

Earth Sciences - Environment - 13.09.2024
The skyscraper-sized tsunami that vibrated through the entire planet and no one saw
The skyscraper-sized tsunami that vibrated through the entire planet and no one saw

Earth Sciences - Environment - 13.09.2024
In the Field: Understanding the impact of Arctic militarization on Indigenous communities

Earth Sciences - Environment - 12.09.2024
Antarctica’s receding sea ice could impact seabirds’ food supply
Antarctica's rapidly receding sea ice could have a negative impact on the food supply of seabirds that breed hundreds of miles away from the continent.

Campus - Earth Sciences - 10.09.2024
MIT graduate programs empower the next generation of naval leaders
MIT graduate programs empower the next generation of naval leaders

Life Sciences - Earth Sciences - 09.09.2024
Iron was life’s ’primeval’ metal
Every living organism uses tiny quantities of metals to carry out biological functions, including breathing, transcribing DNA, turning food into energy, or any number of essential life processes. Life has used metals in this way since single-celled organisms floated in Earth's earliest oceans. Nearly half of the enzymes-proteins that carry out chemical reactions in cells-within organisms require metals, many of which are transition metals named for the space they occupy in the periodic table.

Earth Sciences - Paleontology - 06.09.2024
How we discovered unique Scottish rocks record when Earth was first encased in ice
How we discovered unique Scottish rocks record when Earth was first encased in ice
Writing in The Conversation, Professor Graham Sheilds and Elias Rugen (both UCL Earth Sciences) discuss their discovery of rocks proving the polar ice caps once expanded so far they joined up around the equator. More than 700 million years ago, the Earth was plunged into a state that geologists call  "snowball Earth" , when our planet was entirely encased in ice.

Health - Earth Sciences - 05.09.2024
Disaster preparedness projects receive UKRI funding
Disaster preparedness projects receive UKRI funding
Two new interdisciplinary research projects investigating how to prepare for epidemics and volcanic eruption are receiving funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

Environment - Earth Sciences - 29.08.2024
Humboldt's unpublished book
Humboldt’s unpublished book
A work drafted by Alexander von Humboldt but no longer published is being edited at the University of Bern. It contains a pioneering study on global ocean currents, which is more relevant than ever in view of the dwindling Gulf Stream. What would it be like if Beethoven's tenth symphony could be completed?

Earth Sciences - Life Sciences - 28.08.2024
Diving into marine research

Earth Sciences - Innovation - 23.08.2024
Two epicenters led to Japan's violent Noto earthquake on New Year's Day
Two epicenters led to Japan’s violent Noto earthquake on New Year’s Day
Science + Technology A rare "dual-initiation" mechanism ruptured a barrier on the fault during the Jan.

Earth Sciences - Environment - 23.08.2024
UCalgary researcher joins Canadian team exploring the deep sea
UCalgary researcher joins Canadian team exploring the deep sea
A marine hydrogeologist from the University of Calgary's Faculty of Science has joined an expedition exploring the deep ocean off the west coast of British Columbia.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 22.08.2024
U-M research forecasts warmer, rainier winter storms ahead for Great Lakes region
Study: Historical Trends in Cold-Season Mid-Latitude Cyclones in the Great Lakes Region Anyone who's spent their winter months around the Great Lakes has probably had the uncanny experience of living through three seasons in a single weekend. According to new research from the University of Michigan, these wild weather swings are poised to become even more common in the future.

Earth Sciences - 21.08.2024
Visiting professor: social geographer Ilse Helbrecht teaches at the renowned Dartmouth College

Environment - Earth Sciences - 20.08.2024
Hurricane hunters, the true storm chasers
It was Labor Day weekend of 1935, and a powerful hurricane was headed straight for Cuba. At least, that's what the latest forecast track, generated in part by ships at sea, had indicated.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 20.08.2024
A flight into the maelstrom

Earth Sciences - 15.08.2024
Geophysicist Dr. Jonas Preine wins award for research communication
Geophysicist Dr. Jonas Preine wins award for research communication

History / Archeology - Earth Sciences - 14.08.2024
Stonehenge's giant Altar Stone came all the way from north-east Scotland
Stonehenge’s giant Altar Stone came all the way from north-east Scotland
Dr Rob Ixer explains in The Conversation how his research found that Stonehenge's giant Altar Stone originated in north-east Scotland, No one is certain why Stonehenge was built.

Earth Sciences - Environment - 13.08.2024
Scottish and Irish rocks confirmed as rare record of 'snowball Earth'
Scottish and Irish rocks confirmed as rare record of ’snowball Earth’
A rock formation spanning Ireland and Scotland may be the world's most complete record of "snowball Earth", a crucial moment in planetary history when the globe was covered in ice, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 09.08.2024
Call for papers: St Helena Research & Innovation online conference

Earth Sciences - 08.08.2024
New Ways of Adapting to Extreme Heat in the City
As summer temperatures rise, so do the associated health risks. This is particularly true in urban areas and cities such as Heidelberg with a density of buildings and limited green spaces.

Earth Sciences - Astronomy / Space - 05.08.2024
From Earth to distant worlds: ETH Department is now called Earth and Planetary Sciences
From Earth to distant worlds: ETH Department is now called Earth and Planetary Sciences

Environment - Earth Sciences - 01.08.2024
Wind, Water, and an Ever-Changing Climate
Wind, Water, and an Ever-Changing Climate
Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Researcher Caroline Muller Promoted to Professor Caroline Muller , one of the first climate researchers to join the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) in 2021, was promoted to full professor.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 31.07.2024
An ancient lake supported human life in the Namib Sand Sea, say experts
An ancient lake supported human life in the Namib Sand Sea, say experts
Abi Stone , The University of Manchester Dominic Stratford , University of the Witwatersrand Desert regions in northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula have been well studied by archaeologists as the home of early humans and as routes of migration along " green corridors ".

Earth Sciences - 31.07.2024
Disparity dynamics: Geographic impact of social transfer programs on income inequality
Study: Social Transfer Programs as Non-Spatially Targeted Methods of Reducing Interregional Geographic Inequality Social transfer programs have significant geographic differences in spending that hel

Environment - Earth Sciences - 31.07.2024
Researchers return to Arctic to test integrated sensor nodes
The nodes are intended to become part of a widespread sea-ice monitoring network. Shimmering ice extends in all directions as far as the eye can see.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 30.07.2024
The call of the forest
The call of the forest
Forests cover a third of the world's land surface. Although they provide us with invaluable services, they are now under so much pressure that we are faced with our own contradictions between their sometimes conflicting roles as sanctuaries for biodiversity, or (over)logged sources of materials.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 29.07.2024
Complex life on Earth began around 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought, new study claims
Complex life on Earth began around 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought, new study claims
Environmental evidence of the very first experiments in the evolution of complex life on Earth, has been uncovered by an international team of scientists. Until now, scientists broadly accepted animals first emerged on Earth 635 million years ago. But a team, led by Cardiff University, has discovered evidence of a much earlier ecosystem in the Franceville Basin near Gabon on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa over 1.5 billion years earlier.

Earth Sciences - 29.07.2024
UCalgary prof's research supports launch of Canada's earthquake alert system
UCalgary prof’s research supports launch of Canada’s earthquake alert system

Earth Sciences - Music - 26.07.2024
Researchers Live Stream Seismic Waves Generated by Taylor Swift Concert
Researchers Live Stream Seismic Waves Generated by Taylor Swift Concert
On 23 and 24 July, pop singer Taylor Swift gave 2 concerts in the Hamburg Volkspark stadium. Those who couldn't get tickets could at least watch the seismic waves created during the performance, via a live stream from the WAVE network at Science City Hamburg-Bahrenfeld.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 23.07.2024
Opening a window on environmental phenomena
Opening a window on environmental phenomena
Data collected by satellites, drones, radars and microscopes provide a goldmine of information to better understand our environment. And when these data are coupled with artificial intelligence (AI), they can unlock the secrets of phenomena taking place at all levels. In a rapidly changing world where environmental threats abound, obtaining a better understanding of natural and anthropogenic processes can help corroborate points of view, guide conservation and renewal efforts, and orient new research.

Earth Sciences - Environment - 23.07.2024
Fossil algae show a lake once existed on Lesotho's Mafadi summit but it vanished
Fossil algae show a lake once existed on Lesotho’s Mafadi summit but it vanished
Today, Lesotho has few natural lakes despite receiving some of the greatest rainfall in southern Africa.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 22.07.2024
Groundwater is key to protecting global ecosystems
Groundwater is key to protecting global ecosystems
A first-of-its-kind map of groundwater-dependent ecosystems has been developed by an international team of scientists. From desert springs, mountain meadows and streams to coastal wetlands and forests, the interactive resource maps these diverse ecosystems globally, offering insights into their protection status and how they overlap with human communities.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 18.07.2024
We should not underestimate the increasingly warm summer temperatures
Despite a wet and grey June, summers in Switzerland are getting hotter than expected. The increased summer temperatures harbour risks that we are not well prepared for, says Dominik Schumacher.

Earth Sciences - 17.07.2024
Seismic activity in metro Vancouver mapped out for risk analysis, urban planning
Seismic activity in metro Vancouver mapped out for risk analysis, urban planning
Sheri Molnar and her team have collected earthquake relevant data at more than 2,300 locations across Canada's third-largest city centre While earthquake prediction is next to impossible, it is possib

Earth Sciences - Astronomy / Space - 16.07.2024
Learning from Venus: Combining Earth System Sciences with Planetary Sciences

Astronomy / Space - Earth Sciences - 16.07.2024
Here's How AI Is Changing NASA's Mars Rover Science
Here’s How AI Is Changing NASA’s Mars Rover Science
Artificial intelligence is helping scientists to identify minerals within rocks studied by the Perseverance rover. Some scientists dream of exploring planets with "smart" spacecraft that know exactly what data to look for, where to find it, and how to analyze it. Although making that dream a reality will take time, advances made with NASA's Perseverance Mars rover offer promising steps in that direction.

Earth Sciences - Pedagogy - 15.07.2024
Q&A: Helping young readers explore curiosity about rocks through discovery and play

Earth Sciences - Environment - 15.07.2024
Greenland science expedition aims to unveil critical climate insights
Greenland science expedition aims to unveil critical climate insights
A University of Bonn geologist on board a polar research vessel will be studying the effects of climate change on ice and sea level The British polar research vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough set sa

Astronomy / Space - Earth Sciences - 15.07.2024
NASA Transmits Hip-Hop Song to Deep Space for First Time
NASA Transmits Hip-Hop Song to Deep Space for First Time
This illustration of the large Quetzalpetlatl Corona located in Venus' southern hemisphere depicts active volcanism and a subduction zone, where the foreground crust plunges into the planet's interior.

Earth Sciences - Environment - 11.07.2024
Analysis: The Atlantic Gulf Stream was unexpectedly strong during the last ice age
Analysis: The Atlantic Gulf Stream was unexpectedly strong during the last ice age
Writing in The Conversation, Professors Mark Maslin, David Thornalley and Dr Jack Wharton's (UCL Geography) new research has found the Gulf Stream, which carries warm water northwards through the Atlantic, was stronger and deeper 20,000 years ago than it is today. Twenty thousand years ago the world was locked into  a great ice age.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 11.07.2024
ONC welcomes new Tang.Gwan - hacxwiqak - Tsigis Marine Protected Area
ONC welcomes new Tang.Gwan - hacxwiqak - Tsigis Marine Protected Area
Ocean Networks Canada, a University of Victoria initiative, welcomes today's announcement of the new marine protected area (MPA) Tang.

Event - Earth Sciences - 09.07.2024
Meet the naturalist Goethe
Meet the naturalist Goethe