Earth Sciences

Dry Wadi Fills with Life

Nasa (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

These true-color images show a wadi in northern Niger on September 19, 2007, and September 18, 2009. The 2007 shows the wadi populated by plants that have taken advantage of recent precipitation.

Wheeler Crest Eastern Sierra wallpaper, Nitrogen loss threatens desert plant life with implications for global warming

tangledwing (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

Wheeler Crest Eastern Sierra wallpaper Nitrogen loss threatens desert plant life, study shows Sparks (associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology) and lead author Carmody McCalley, a graduate student, warn that temperature increases and shifting precipitation patterns due to climate change may lead to further nitrogen losses in arid ecosystems. That would make arid soils even more [...]...

EIF 132-Everglades

EarthPortal (Free subscription) | yesterday

Known worldwide by its panda logo, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) leads international efforts to protect endangered species and their habitats. Now in its fifth decade, WWF works in more than 100 countries around the globe to conserve the diversity of life on Earth. Everglades Province (Bailey) Everglades National Park, United States Wetland Marsh Swamp Mangrove swamp Everglades restoration plan shrinks...

Fortuitous Research Provides First Detailed Documentation of Tsunami Erosion

Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday

For the first time, a group of scientists working in the Kuril Islands off the east coast of Russia has documented the scope of tsunami-caused erosion and found that a wave can carry away far more sand and dirt than it deposits. (University of Washington press release)

Volcanoes Played a Pivotal Role in Ancient Ice Age, Mass Extinction

Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday

Researchers here have discovered the pivotal role that volcanoes played in a deadly ice age 450 million years ago. (Ohio State University press release)

Arctic Sediments Show that 20th Century Warming is Unlike Natural Variation

Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday

The possibility that climate change might simply be a natural variation like others that have occurred throughout geologic time is dimming, according to new research. (University at Buffalo press release)

A New Wrinkle in Ancient Ocean Chemistry

Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday

A research team has corroborated evidence that oxygen production began in Earth's oceans at least 100 million years before the Great Oxidation Event. (University of California – Riverside press release)

Newly Drilled Ice Cores May be the Longest Taken From the Andes

Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday

Researchers spent two months this summer high in the Peruvian Andes and brought back two cores, the longest ever drilled from ice fields in the tropics. (Ohio State University press release)

North Atlantic Fish Populations Shifting as Ocean Temperatures Warm

Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday

About half of 36 fish stocks in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean have been shifting northward over the last four decades, with some stocks nearly disappearing from US waters as they move farther offshore, according to a new study. (NOAA press release)

• Shifting Atlantic Fish Stocks - Global Warming

Snows of Kilimanjaro Shrinking Rapidly, and Likely to be Lost

Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday

The remaining ice fields atop famed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could be gone within two decades and perhaps even sooner, based on the latest survey of the ice fields remaining on the mountain. (Ohio State University Institute press release)

• The golden, melting, re-freezing and ultimately disappearing snows of Kilimanjaro - Environment

Deep-Sea Ecosystems Affected by Climate Change

Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday

The vast muddy expanses of the abyssal plains occupy about 60 percent of the Earth's surface and are important in global carbon cycling, and based on long-term studies of two such areas, a new paper shows that animal communities on the abyssal seafloor are affected in a variety of ways by climate change. (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute press release)

Study Gives Clearer Picture of How Land-Use Changes Affect U.S. Climate

Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday

A study concluded that greener land cover contributes to cooler temperatures, and almost any other change leads to warmer temperatures. (Purdue University press release)

Paleoecologists Offer New Insight into How Climate Change will Affect Organisms

Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday

A new study examines some of the potential problems with current prediction methods and calls for the use of a range of approaches when predicting the impact of climate change on organisms. (Lehigh University press release)

Study Uses Satellite Imagery to Identify Active magma Systems in East Africa's Rift Valley

Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday

Satellite images compiled over a decade to study volcanic activity in Kenya's section of the African Rift show deformation of four active volcanoes, which underscores the possibility for human hazard. (University of Miami press release)

Spring Bloom and Dust off Argentina

Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday

The arc and waves of a pale brown plume of dust compliments the swirls of blue and green in the South Atlantic Ocean in this photo-like image from November 5, 2009.

Typhoon Mirinae Already Scaring Philippines Before Halloween

mamun2336 | 10/30/2009

Another typhoon in the northern Philippines really is something to be scared about, and Mirinae is expected to make landfall there in the mid-morning hours on Halloween, October 31. Mirinae will be the fourth major storm to hit the Philippines in one month bringing more rain to an already flood-weary region. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite is already hard at work analyzing...

• Typhoon Mirinae is already scaring Philippine residents before Halloween - Physorg
• Typhoon Mirinae Already Scaring Philippines Before Halloween - Red Orbit

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Dozens dead in Philippines from tropical storm flooding

tamilselvan1 | 09/27/2009

At least 51 people have died and at least 21 others are missing after torrential rains and subsequent flooding pummeled the Philippines on Saturday, the government said.