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Article - Heidi Henderson - Nov 10 2009 - 1:54pm
- Greenland Ice Cap Melting In A Hurry, Study Suggests
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Satellite observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is loosing mass at an accelerating rate, according to a new study published in Science. The mass loss is equally distributed ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2009 - 7:12pm
- Is Rwanda's Lake Kivu A Freshwater Time Bomb?
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A potentially dangerous level of carbon dioxide and methane gas haunts Lake Kivu, the freshwater lake system bordering Rwanda and the Republic of Congo. Scientists can't say for sure if the volatile mixture at the bottom of the lake will remain still ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 16 2009 - 6:21pm
- Sea Level Rise Quickening Along US Atlantic Coast
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An international team of environmental scientists says that sea-level rise along the Atlantic Coast of the United States in the 20th century was 2 millimeters faster than at any point in the last 4,000 years. Sea-level rise prior to the 20th century is gen ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2009 - 11:51am
- Detailed Seismic Imaging Exposes Yellowstone's Geologic Plumbing
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According to four studies appearing in the latest issue of the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth of at least 41 ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:58pm
- Geologist Explains Why Haiti Earthquake Was Such A Disaster
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The disastrous magnitude 7.0 earthquake that triggered destruction and mounting death tolls in Haiti this week occurred in a highly complex tangle of tectonic faults near the intersection of the Caribbean and North American crustal plates, according to a g ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2011 - 3:11pm
- Geodynamics After Breakfast
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This morning I was asked to settle an argument about the Magnetic North Pole being a magnetic south pole. That discussion started me wondering about the dynamo theory, widely accepted now, that the Earth's swirling, agitating liquid outer core, intera ...
Article - Anonymous - Jan 15 2010 - 5:26pm
- Stalagmite Records Reveal Southwest's Abrupt Ice Age Climate Swings
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The natural climate archives recorded in a stalagmite from a limestone cave in southern Arizona link the Southwest's winter precipitation to temperatures in the North Atlantic, according to new research in Nature Geoscience. The finding is the first t ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 21 2010 - 1:09pm
- Maximum Ocean Wave Heights Increasing In Pacific Northwest
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Scientists from Oregon State University and the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries say a major increase in maximum ocean wave heights off the Pacific Northwest in recent decades has forced scientists to re-evaluate how high a "100-yea ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 25 2010 - 3:10pm
- Another Major Earthquake In Haiti?
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The January 12th earthquake in Haiti killed an estimated 200,000 people and left 1.5 million homeless. Now, researchers are returning to the island this week to determine whether the quake could trigger another major event to the east or west of Haiti' ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2011 - 3:19pm
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