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Fortuitous research provides first detailed documentation of tsunami erosion

Fortuitous research provides first detailed documentation of tsunami erosion

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- 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 ...


International expedition investigates climate change, alternative fuels in Arctic

International expedition investigates climate change, alternative fuels in Arctic

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists from the Marine Biogeochemistry and Geology and Geophysics sections of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) organized and led a team of university and government scientists on an Arctic expedition ...


Russia gains new land after quake, lava flows: scientist

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Russia, the world's largest country, has grown even larger recently thanks to an earthquake and a volcanic eruption in its seismically active far eastern regions, a scientist said on Friday.


The terrible teens of T. rex

The terrible teens of T. rex

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

We all know adolescents get testy from time to time. Thank goodness we don't have young tyrannosaurs running around the neighborhood.


Latvian experts say meteorite crater was hoax (Update)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- Scientists investigating a large crater initially believed to have been caused by a meteorite said a closer analysis Monday revealed it was a hoax.


Volcanoes played pivotal role in ancient ice age, mass extinction

Volcanoes played pivotal role in ancient ice age, mass extinction

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers here have discovered the pivotal role that volcanoes played in a deadly ice age 450 million years ago.


T.rex's oldest ancestor identified

T.rex's oldest ancestor identified

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Remains of the oldest-known relative of T.rex have been identified, more than 100 years after being pulled out of a Gloucestershire reservoir, according to research published in the Zoological Jo ...


Oceans absorbing carbon dioxide more slowly, scientist finds

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 7 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 4

The world's oceans are absorbing less carbon dioxide (CO2), a Yale geophysicist has found after pooling data taken over the past 50 years. With the oceans currently absorbing over 40 percent of the CO2 emitted by human activity, ...


Research gives new insights into 4 billion year-old meteorites

Research gives new insights into 4 billion year-old meteorites

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have gained new insight into the makeup of ancient meteorites called Carbonaceous Chondrites, in research published in the October edition of the journal Earth Science and Planetary Le ...


North Carolina Sea Levels Rising Three Times Faster Than in Previous 500 Years, Study Says

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (10) | comments 1

PHILADELPHIA -- An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise, at least in North Carolina, is accelerating. Researchers found 20th-century sea-level ...



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