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A unique geography -- and soot and dust -- conspire against Himalayan glaciers

Dec 15, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 1

"So many disparate elements, both natural and man-made, converge in the Himalayas," said William Lau, a climatologist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "There's no other place in the ...

New Study Turns Up the Heat on Soot's Role in Himalayan Warming (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 14, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Soot from fire in an unventilated fireplace wafts into a home and settles on the surfaces of floors and furniture. But with a quick fix to the chimney flue and some dusting, it bears no impact ...

First complete image created of Himalayan fault, subduction zone

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Sep 11, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (7) | 1

An international team of researchers has created the most complete seismic image of the Earth's crust and upper mantle beneath the rugged Himalaya Mountains, in the process discovering some unusual geologic ...

Astronomers find coldest, driest, calmest place on Earth

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Aug 31, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (42) | 19

The search for the best observatory site in the world has lead to the discovery of what is thought to be the coldest, driest, calmest place on Earth. No human is thought to have ever been there but it is expected to yield ...

Massive dust storm in China circled the world in 13 days: study

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jul 20, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 1

A wind storm that ripped across western China's Taklimakan desert kicked up hundreds of thousands of tonnes of dust that high-altitude winds then carried around the world in less than two weeks, a study says.

China environmental phenomena monitored from space

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jul 06, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

China is in a very seismically active area and has had many catastrophic earthquakes during its history. A joint European-Chinese team is using satellite radar data to monitor ground deformation across major continental faults ...

Cenozoic sedimentary records and geochronological constraints of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau uplift

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jan 14, 2009 | 1 / 5 (2) | 0

The Northeastern part of the present-day Qinghai-Tibet region had a higher elevation than the Southwestern part until the earliest Miocene, i.e., circa 23 million years ago. Thereafter, two phases (12-8 and 5 million years ...

Preserved by ice: Glacial dams helped prevent erosion of Tibetan plateau

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Oct 08, 2008 | 4.2 / 5 (14) | 0

The Tsangpo River is the highest major river in the world, starting at 14,500 feet elevation and plunging to the Bay of Bengal, scouring huge amounts of rock and soil along the way. Yet in its upper reaches, ...