| Title |
Type |
Date |
Words |
| This volcano put an end to an earthquake. |
Brief article |
Nov 26, 2016 |
184 |
| San Andreas has neighbor. |
Brief article |
Nov 12, 2016 |
170 |
| Deep earthquakes surprise scientists: new type of weak temblor in upper mantle detected. |
Brief article |
Nov 12, 2016 |
269 |
| Extreme lightning sets records. |
Brief article |
Oct 29, 2016 |
223 |
| Fossils contain earliest signs of shells: microscopic eukaryotes made armor 809 million years ago. |
|
Oct 29, 2016 |
447 |
| Evidence mounts for ancient comet: impact 56 million years ago may have kicked off warming. |
|
Oct 29, 2016 |
343 |
| Methane didn't keep ancient Earth warm, new simulation suggests. |
Brief article |
Oct 29, 2016 |
218 |
| Atlantic ocean gets its first U.S. national monument. |
Brief article |
Oct 15, 2016 |
180 |
| Anthropocene has begun, group says: controversial proposal would add epoch to geologic time scale. |
|
Oct 15, 2016 |
1721 |
| Fossils claimed to be oldest on Earth: 3.7-billion-year-old mounds could signal early microbes. |
Brief article |
Oct 1, 2016 |
314 |
| Storm unleashes rare seismic wave: tracking weak tremors could shed light on Earth's innards. |
|
Oct 1, 2016 |
453 |
| Age of Americas' hookup debated: latest analysis dates land bridge to 3 million years ago. |
|
Sep 17, 2016 |
514 |
| India's monsoon had abrupt beginning: origin of seasonal winds traced to nearly 13 million years ago. |
|
Sep 3, 2016 |
391 |
| How dinosaurs crossed an ocean: land bridges might have enabled transatlantic treks. |
|
Aug 20, 2016 |
509 |
| Quenching society's thirst: desalination may soon turn a corner, from rare to routine. |
|
Aug 20, 2016 |
2720 |
| Underwater city built by microbes, not people. |
Brief article |
Aug 6, 2016 |
258 |
| Phytoplankton shells get add test: initial calcification gains with elevated C[O.sub.2] don't persist. |
|
Aug 6, 2016 |
577 |
| Bomb debris can reveal blast size. |
Brief article |
Aug 6, 2016 |
241 |
| Missing "extinct" meteorite found in Sweden. |
Brief article |
Jul 23, 2016 |
260 |
| Antarctic ozone hole now recovering: simulation filters out natural variation in long-term trend. |
Brief article |
Jul 23, 2016 |
209 |
| Scientists up tally of deep-sea vents: hydrothermal fissures may be more common than thought. |
|
Jul 23, 2016 |
568 |
| Successful helium hunt suggests element is not yet running out. |
Brief article |
Jul 23, 2016 |
187 |
| Volcanic rock can quickly store C[O.sub.2]: basalt injections offer benefits over other disposal schemes. |
|
Jul 9, 2016 |
353 |
| Bikini Atoll radiation levels remain high. |
Brief article |
Jul 9, 2016 |
197 |
| Atlas reveals where light pollution masks Milky Way. |
Brief article |
Jul 9, 2016 |
218 |
| Plate tectonics could grind to a halt: shifting crust just 1 stage in Earth's life cycle, study suggests. |
|
Jun 25, 2016 |
447 |
| Tsunamis reshaped Martian landscape: signs of waves shore up evidence for past ocean on Red Planet. |
|
Jun 25, 2016 |
402 |
| Young sun's flares nurtured early life: solar blasts could have helped warm Earth and seed DNA. |
|
Jun 25, 2016 |
340 |
| Pleasant weather may be history. |
Brief article |
Jun 11, 2016 |
183 |
| Pioneering geophysicist's theory of peak oil still debated. |
Book review |
Jun 11, 2016 |
507 |
| Failure spurred current El Nino: false start's stored-up heat led to record 2015-16 event. |
|
May 28, 2016 |
463 |
| Lead levels in drinking water vary seasonally. |
Brief article |
May 28, 2016 |
251 |
| Buoy ballet tracks ocean motion. |
Brief article |
May 28, 2016 |
262 |
| EPA underestimates methane releases: rising amounts of greenhouse gas missed by agency's methods. |
|
May 14, 2016 |
1189 |
| Diamond origins debate settled: older gems, younger crystals formed in similar conditions. |
|
Apr 30, 2016 |
457 |
| Sea level rise forecast doubles: by 2100, Antarctic melt could boost oceans by over a meter. |
|
Apr 30, 2016 |
576 |
| Quake risk high in parts of central United States. |
Brief article |
Apr 30, 2016 |
206 |
| Thinking outside the Goldilocks zone: Earth scientists reimagine the sweet spot for habitable planets. |
|
Apr 30, 2016 |
2056 |
| Dome effect \dom ih-fekt\ n. |
Brief article |
Apr 16, 2016 |
163 |
| Carbon dioxide shakes up geysers: gas buildup lowers water's boiling point, triggers blasts. |
|
Apr 16, 2016 |
543 |
| Climate change threatens quality of French, Swiss wines. |
Brief article |
Apr 16, 2016 |
112 |
| Changing climate: 10 years after An Inconvenient Truth. |
|
Apr 16, 2016 |
4897 |
| Tipping point for ice sheet looms: Antarctica's past may be a guide to future melting. |
|
Apr 2, 2016 |
611 |
| Old shipwrecks tell hurricane tales: frequency of Atlantic storms declined during 'Little Ice Age'. |
|
Apr 2, 2016 |
404 |
| 20th century sea level rose at fastest rate in millennia. |
Brief article |
Apr 2, 2016 |
194 |
| Seafloor cables don't disrupt life: animals will cross, colonize high-voltage power lines. |
|
Mar 19, 2016 |
517 |
| Corals need to take their vitamin C. |
Brief article |
Mar 19, 2016 |
144 |
| Gulf oil spill could speed up corrosion of shipwrecks. |
Brief article |
Mar 19, 2016 |
139 |
| Indian Ocean phytoplankton in danger: photosynthetic microbes are vanishing as sea surface warms. |
|
Mar 5, 2016 |
398 |
| New app puts an earthquake detector in your pocket. |
Brief article |
Mar 5, 2016 |
189 |
| 2015 smashed heat records: warming and El Nino pushed global temperatures up. |
Brief article |
Feb 20, 2016 |
191 |
| Ocean heating doubles. |
Brief article |
Feb 20, 2016 |
229 |
| Shakes expose future quake hot spots: slowdown in seismic waves can reveal weak rock, fluid buildup. |
|
Feb 6, 2016 |
373 |
| Earth gives up its inner secrets in retelling of old tale. |
Book review |
Feb 6, 2016 |
387 |
| States ranked on climate change preparation. |
Brief article |
Jan 23, 2016 |
202 |
| Exoplanets require right stuff for life: wrong makeup could nix tectonic activity needed for biology. |
|
Jan 23, 2016 |
486 |
| Earlier origin for earth's center: innermost core formed soon after planet did, study finds. |
|
Jan 23, 2016 |
561 |
| Arctic ice rafts traveling farther, faster: contamination risks rise as embedded pollutants spread, too. |
|
Jan 23, 2016 |
505 |
| Historic climate accord approved: 195 countries pledge to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius. |
|
Jan 9, 2016 |
1186 |
| Warming culprit C[O.sub.2] has a cool side: peculiar conditions in central Antarctica have chilling effect. |
|
Jan 9, 2016 |
534 |
| Gooey mantle boundary discovered: region resists movement of magma plumes, sinking plates. |
|
Jan 9, 2016 |
530 |
| Arctic warms up in dark winters: thinning ice may increase heat-trapping moisture in air. |
|
Dec 26, 2015 |
502 |
| Magnetic poles not about to flip: earth's weakening field is a return to normal, study finds. |
|
Dec 26, 2015 |
408 |
| Origin of Earth's water questioned: deuterium levels in mantle suggest comets not the source. |
|
Dec 12, 2015 |
570 |
| How to melt an ice cave. |
Report |
Nov 28, 2015 |
235 |
| Counting all hurricane deaths. |
Report |
Nov 28, 2015 |
256 |
| Probes unveil three hidden blemishes on moon's face. |
Brief article |
Nov 28, 2015 |
145 |
| Magnitude of Great Dying questioned: land life spared in Permian mass extinction, researchers argue. |
Report |
Nov 28, 2015 |
464 |
| 'Vampires' sucked ancient life dry: fossils preserve evidence of predation on early eukaryotes. |
Report |
Nov 28, 2015 |
336 |
| 4.1-billion-year-old crystal may hold earliest signs of life. |
Report |
Nov 28, 2015 |
165 |
| Geoengineering may be last hope to combat climate change. |
Book review |
Nov 28, 2015 |
347 |
| Earth's (not so boring) boring billion: when the planet's oxygen was scarce, animals may have emerged under the radar. |
|
Nov 14, 2015 |
2665 |
| Tsunami forecasts get speed boost: Chilean quake tests simple method for rapid warning. |
|
Oct 17, 2015 |
491 |
| A jackpot beneath a volcano. |
Brief article |
Oct 3, 2015 |
217 |
| Hurricane quakes may aid forecasters: seismic data on Sandy show temblors emanate from eye of storm. |
|
Oct 3, 2015 |
311 |
| Carbon cuts could save U.S. farmers billions of dollars. |
Brief article |
Sep 19, 2015 |
155 |
| Volcanism convicted in Permian die-off: precise dating ties Siberian Traps eruptions to mass extinction. |
|
Sep 19, 2015 |
497 |
| Katrina's legacy: refining forecasts: 10 years after hurricane, storm warnings have improved. |
|
Sep 19, 2015 |
1205 |
| Mystery at the Center of the Earth new research attempts to unravel the paradoxical past of the planet's magnetic field. |
|
Sep 19, 2015 |
2825 |
| Virtual tornado warning. |
Brief article |
Sep 19, 2015 |
203 |
| Desert dig uncovers big carbon cache: aquifers may keep huge amount of C[O.sub.2] out of the atmosphere. |
|
Sep 5, 2015 |
433 |
| Nepal quake unleashed long shakes: low-frequency vibrations to blame for damage in April event. |
|
Sep 5, 2015 |
339 |
| Wildfire seasons have lengthened. |
Brief article |
Aug 22, 2015 |
167 |
| Climate change drove ice age die-offs: abrupt rises in temperature coincide with timing of extinctions. |
|
Aug 22, 2015 |
429 |
| Carbon dating could soon mislead: flood of fossil fuel emissions may make method unreliable. |
|
Aug 22, 2015 |
329 |
| Natural concrete keeps lid on volcano. |
Brief article |
Aug 8, 2015 |
233 |
| Greenland's out-of-sync climate: long lag in solar activity's effect portends faster warming ahead. |
|
Aug 8, 2015 |
386 |
| Most of Earth's impact craters await discovery. |
Brief article |
Jul 25, 2015 |
211 |
| Crack threatens Antarctic ice shelf: Larsen C could shed massive section within next few years. |
|
Jul 25, 2015 |
665 |
| No plate tectonics on super-Earths: large rocky planets have stiff outer shells, study suggests. |
|
Jul 25, 2015 |
311 |
| Many groundwater basins run deficits. |
Brief article |
Jul 25, 2015 |
244 |
| How injection wells start quakes: fluid disposal initiates slow slip, indirectly causes tremors. |
|
Jul 11, 2015 |
459 |
| Grand Canyon's age revised, again. |
Brief article |
Jul 11, 2015 |
194 |
| New volcanic islands. |
Brief article |
Jun 27, 2015 |
195 |
| Global warming 'hiatus' an artifact: skewed ocean data hid recent rapid increase in temperature. |
|
Jun 27, 2015 |
828 |
| Titanic typhoons are in the forecast: warmer subsurface waters may fuel bigger Pacific storms. |
|
Jun 27, 2015 |
356 |
| Everest could lose most of its ice by the end of the century. |
|
Jun 27, 2015 |
105 |
| Impacts may have boiled early seas: hot aftermaths of asteroid strikes altered life's evolution. |
Report |
Jun 13, 2015 |
584 |
| Just 1 percent of Amazon's tree species hold half its carbon. |
Brief article |
May 30, 2015 |
133 |
| Current rate of C[O.sub.2] rise unparalleled: human activity dwarfs all other increases since dino extinction. |
|
May 30, 2015 |
740 |
