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Earth on the edge(图)
the Earth climate and atmosphere water resources and oceans volcanoes and polar regions
2009/12/14
Launching the conference today during the 90th anniversary celebrations for the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), the first Australian to be elected President of the IUGG, CSIRO’s ...
Peering Under the Ice of a Collapsing Polar Coast--Low-Level Aerial Surveys Aim to Understand Rapid Antarctic Melting(图)
the Ice of a Collapsing Polar Coast Low-Level Aerial Surveys Rapid Antarctic Melting
2009/12/10
Starting this month, a giant NASA DC-8 aircraft loaded with geophysical instruments and scientists will buzz at low level over the coasts of West Antarctica, where ice sheets are collapsing at a pace ...
'Killer' Southeast Drought Low on Scale, Says Study--Others Were Far Worse; Population, Planning Are the Real Problems(图)
'Killer' Southeast Drought Population Planning the Real Problems
2009/12/10
A 2005-2007 dry spell in the southeastern United States destroyed billions of dollars of crops, drained municipal reservoirs and sparked legal wars among a half-dozen states—but the havoc came not fro...
Glaciers Have Moved Together in Far-Flung Regions--Study Links Climate Fluctuations in North with Tropics(图)
Glaciers Far-Flung Regions Climate Fluctuations North Tropics
2009/12/10
A new study adds evidence that climate swings in Europe and North America during the last ice age were closely linked to changes in the tropics. The study, published this week in the journal Science, ...
On September 23 and 24, 2009, New South Wales and Queensland were blanketed by a dust storm originating in the Lake Eyre Basin of central Australia, the source of most seasonal dust storms. Atmospheri...
Warming Climate May Devastate Major U.S. Crops--Study Suggests Tipping Points for Corn, Soybeans, Cotton(图)
Warming Climate Major U.S. Crops Tipping Points Corn Soybeans Cotton
2009/12/10
Three of the most important crops produced in the United States—corn, soybeans and cotton—are predicted to suffer declines of as much as 80 percent if temperatures continue to rise with manmade climat...
Scientists are set to study the earbones and organs of more than 2000 albacore tuna to better understand the growth, age and breeding patterns of this increasingly important species.Albacore tuna are ...
Wilf named Distinguished Speaker by Paleontological Society
Wilf Distinguished Speaker Paleontological Society
2009/12/21
Peter Wilf, associate professor of geosciences at Penn State, has been named Distinguished Speaker for fall 2009 through fall 2012 by the Paleontological Society.The Paleontological Society selects ou...
Study Predicts Maximum Sea Level Rise Close to One Meter by 2100(图)
Maximum Sea Level One Meter 2100
2009/12/10
A new study of sea level fluctuations over the last 22,000 years is the latest to predict that rising seas could reach close to one meter by the end of this century, consistent with the most recent se...
Drillers Hit Promising Gas-Hydrate Deposits in Gulf of Mexico--Potential Alternative Fuel, Usually Too Thinly Spread to Exploit(图)
Drillers Hit Gas-Hydrate Deposits Mexico--Potential Alternative Fuel
2009/12/10
U.S. scientists working on a research vessel in the Gulf of Mexico have made the most promising discovery so far of marine gas hydrate, a possible new energy source. Globally, gas hydrate--an icelike ...
Innovative Insurance Aims to Buffer Poor from Climate Risks--New Report Details Policies Based on Weather(图)
Innovative Insurance Climate Risks New Report Details Policies Weather
2009/12/10
In poorer areas of the world, farmers, herders, fishermen and others whose livelihoods are closely linked to their environment rarely have backup in the form of insurance. Now, an innovative type of i...
CO2 Higher Today Than Last 2.1 Million Years--Study Offers Detailed Look at Past Greenhouse Gas Levels(图)
CO2 Higher Today Than Last 2.1 Million Years Past Greenhouse Gas Levels
2009/12/10
Researchers have reconstructed atmospheric carbon dioxide levels over the past 2.1 million years in the sharpest detail yet, shedding new light on its role in the earth’s cycles of cooling and warming...
NASA Hosts Media Briefings About Earth System Science Advances
NASA Media Briefings Earth System Science
2009/6/16
NASA will hold two media briefings to present new developments in research and benefits to society made possible by the Earth system science approach pioneered by the agency during the last 20 years. ...
Climate Change Could Drive Vast Human Migrations--Displacements Already Underway, Says Report(图)
Climate Change Vast Human Migrations
2009/12/10
By mid-century, people may be fleeing rising seas, droughts, floods and other effects of changing climate, in migrations that could vastly exceed the scope of anything before, says a major new report....
'Green' Geochemistry Building Wins Awards--Leading Climate Studies, Sustainably(图)
'Green' Geochemistry Building Leading Climate Studies
2009/12/10
The new Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y., has won three top architecture awards. Recognized for its environment-friendly...