ENVIRONMENT

Researchers analyze risk of population disruption as a result of decarbonization

ENVIRONMENT
Research led by University of Queensland (UQ) and including the University of Göttingen has analyzed the effects of decarbonization strategies by linking global resource...

Breaking up is hard to do: Separation of Fiji and Vanuatu tied to Samoan seamounts

ENVIRONMENT
The islands of Fiji and Vanuatu rise from the tropical waters of the South Pacific in one of the most tectonically active and geologically...

Glaciers have existed on Earth for at least 60 million years—far longer than previously thought

ENVIRONMENT
Glaciers have been present somewhere on Earth for at least 60 million years, a period stretching back almost to the time of the dinosaurs....

Growing fears of ‘dead pool’ on Colorado River as drought threatens Hoover Dam water

ENVIRONMENT
The Colorado River's largest reservoirs stand nearly three-quarters empty, and federal officials now say there is a real danger the reservoirs could drop so...

Massive US storm brings tornadoes to South, blizzard threat

ENVIRONMENT
A massive storm blowing across the country Tuesday spawned several tornadoes that wrecked buildings and injured a handful of people in Oklahoma and Texas,...

Horror of a hotter world on stark display in parched East Africa

ENVIRONMENT
Vast tracts of countryside transformed into barren wasteland, decimated crops and animal herds and children dying of starvation. The grim reality confronting drought-stricken east Africa...

Study reveals atmosphere-driven glacier mass loss changes at Urumqi Glacier

ENVIRONMENT
Glacier mass balance is one of the most important parameters characterizing glacier changes. However, the scarcity of glacier mass balance and meteorological data in...

Vanishing sands: How sand mining is stripping away earth’s beaches

ENVIRONMENT
In Morocco, up to 60 million tons of sand are bulldozed, scraped or shoveled off beaches each year to be used as aggregate in...

More magma found below Yellowstone Caldera than expected

ENVIRONMENT
A team of researchers with members affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. and one in Australia reports evidence that there is much more...

Scientists say land is being created at one of two sites on Louisiana’s coast

EARTH
Supporters of the large-scale Mississippi River sediment diversions currently being planned by the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority got a boost to their...

Ice loss from Northeastern Greenland significantly underestimated

CLIMATE
Ice is continuously streaming off Greenland's melting glaciers at an accelerating rate, dramatically increasing global sea levels. New results published today in Nature indicate...

New field of research: Crystal traces in fossil leaves

ENVIRONMENT
In fossil leaves, puzzling structures are often visible under the microscope. Researchers at the University of Bonn have now been able to show for...
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