progscrape: eos.org

New research finds that mountains "sway to the seismic song of Earth"; the famed Matterhorn is in constant motion, gently swaying back and forth about once every 2 seconds.

3 years ago eos.org earth

Lake Michigan’s Salinity Is on the Rise

3 years ago eos.org

The unsolved mystery of the Earth blobs

3 years ago eos.org earth

Extinct Style of Plate Tectonics Explains Early Earth’s Flat Mountains - The geologic record suggests that despite Earth’s hot, thin crust during the Proterozoic, mountains were still able to form thanks to an extinct style of crustal deformation.

3 years ago eos.org earth

Fifteen Years of Radar Reveal Venus’s Most Basic Facts

3 years ago eos.org

Siberian Heat Wave Nearly Impossible Without Human Influence - Global warming made the heat wave at least 600 times more likely than in 1900

3 years ago eos.org

The looming crisis of Sinking ground in Mexico City. Centuries of pumping water from the aquifer under Mexico City has caused it to sink dramatically

4 years ago eos.org

Ham Radio Forms a Planet-Sized Space Weather Sensor Network

4 years ago eos.org

Typhoons Getting Stronger, Making Landfall More Often - New research shows a growing threat from Pacific storms amid climate change.

4 years ago eos.org

How Long Was Venus Habitable?

5 years ago eos.org

Shrinking Ice Sheets Lifted Global Sea Level 14 Millimeters

5 years ago eos.org

Looking Back at Our Pale Blue Dot: Astronomers model changes in Earth’s chemical signature over the past 4 billion years to improve the search for Earth-like exoplanets

5 years ago eos.org earth

Scientists have found evidence of active microbial communities living in the oceanic crust hundreds of meters beneath the seafloor, proving that life can find a way under even the most extreme and remote conditions.

5 years ago eos.org

Researchers, analyzing stable isotopes and trace elements from a fast-growing stalagmite in the Han-sur-Lesse cave system, Belgium, have found clear evidence of increasingly dry conditions and anthropogenic activity over the past 4 centuries.

5 years ago eos.org

Wine Grape Diversity Buffers Climate Change–Induced Losses

5 years ago eos.org

Pre-Inca Canal System Uses Hillsides as Sponges to Store Water

5 years ago eos.org

The Eternal Nile Is Even More Ancient Than We Thought: A large mantle convection cell beneath the Nile region has helped maintain the river’s steady course over the last 30 million years

5 years ago eos.org

Study shows for the first time that there are fundamental differences between the processes that form terrestrial and submarine canyons, ultimately leading to morphological distinctions between the two

5 years ago eos.org

Ancient Maya Farms Revealed by Laser Scanning, Larger than Previously Estimated

5 years ago eos.org

Freshwater Pools Show Antarctica Is More Vulnerable Than We Thought - East Antarctica’s lakes cluster in patterns similar to those on Greenland’s ice sheet, which is melting rapidly.

5 years ago eos.org antarctica

Scientists quantify global volcanic CO2 venting - find the rate of anthropogenic carbon emissions is higher than that from extinction-level impacts and large outpourings of magma and is 40–100 times higher than the emission rate from all natural outgassing phenomena.

5 years ago eos.org

Cameroon's Lake Nyos Gas Burst: 30 Years Later

5 years ago eos.org

A Nearly 100-Year-Old Physics Model Replicates Modern Arctic Ice Melt - The model was previously used to describe the behavior of ferromagnets in the presence of external magnetic fields.

5 years ago eos.org arctic

Ordinary Security Cameras Could Keep an Eye on Rainfall

5 years ago eos.org

Planetary Low Tide May Force Regular Sunspot Sync Ups - A regular alignment of the planets—no, it’s not pseudoscience—makes a strong enough tug to regulate the Sun’s 11- and 22-year cycles.

5 years ago eos.org

Microbes Spotted in “Polyextreme” Hot Springs - Hot springs that are as acidic as battery acid are home to single-celled microorganisms that may indicate that life could have been sustained on ancient Mars.

5 years ago eos.org

A new study addresses a key PETM mystery: why ocean acidification appears to have occurred to a greater degree in the Atlantic than in the Pacific Ocean

5 years ago eos.org

The Blob Causing Earthquakes: Geophysicists discover that a “blob” of rock sinking into the mantle is the force triggering earthquakes in the Hindu Kush.

6 years ago eos.org

Rising Methane Emissions Could Derail the Paris Agreement - A new study looks for the source of a spike in the potent greenhouse gas methane.

6 years ago eos.org

The Long Memory of the Ocean

6 years ago eos.org

>progscrape ▒

All the news that's fit to scrape

Display options

New research finds that mountains "sway to the seismic song of Earth"; the famed Matterhorn is in constant motion, gently swaying back and forth about once every 2 seconds.

Lake Michigan’s Salinity Is on the Rise

The unsolved mystery of the Earth blobs

Extinct Style of Plate Tectonics Explains Early Earth’s Flat Mountains - The geologic record suggests that despite Earth’s hot, thin crust during the Proterozoic, mountains were still able to form thanks to an extinct style of crustal deformation.

Fifteen Years of Radar Reveal Venus’s Most Basic Facts

Siberian Heat Wave Nearly Impossible Without Human Influence - Global warming made the heat wave at least 600 times more likely than in 1900

The looming crisis of Sinking ground in Mexico City. Centuries of pumping water from the aquifer under Mexico City has caused it to sink dramatically

Ham Radio Forms a Planet-Sized Space Weather Sensor Network

Typhoons Getting Stronger, Making Landfall More Often - New research shows a growing threat from Pacific storms amid climate change.

How Long Was Venus Habitable?

Shrinking Ice Sheets Lifted Global Sea Level 14 Millimeters

Looking Back at Our Pale Blue Dot: Astronomers model changes in Earth’s chemical signature over the past 4 billion years to improve the search for Earth-like exoplanets

Scientists have found evidence of active microbial communities living in the oceanic crust hundreds of meters beneath the seafloor, proving that life can find a way under even the most extreme and remote conditions.

Researchers, analyzing stable isotopes and trace elements from a fast-growing stalagmite in the Han-sur-Lesse cave system, Belgium, have found clear evidence of increasingly dry conditions and anthropogenic activity over the past 4 centuries.

Wine Grape Diversity Buffers Climate Change–Induced Losses

Pre-Inca Canal System Uses Hillsides as Sponges to Store Water

The Eternal Nile Is Even More Ancient Than We Thought: A large mantle convection cell beneath the Nile region has helped maintain the river’s steady course over the last 30 million years

Study shows for the first time that there are fundamental differences between the processes that form terrestrial and submarine canyons, ultimately leading to morphological distinctions between the two

Ancient Maya Farms Revealed by Laser Scanning, Larger than Previously Estimated

Freshwater Pools Show Antarctica Is More Vulnerable Than We Thought - East Antarctica’s lakes cluster in patterns similar to those on Greenland’s ice sheet, which is melting rapidly.

Scientists quantify global volcanic CO2 venting - find the rate of anthropogenic carbon emissions is higher than that from extinction-level impacts and large outpourings of magma and is 40–100 times higher than the emission rate from all natural outgassing phenomena.

Cameroon's Lake Nyos Gas Burst: 30 Years Later

A Nearly 100-Year-Old Physics Model Replicates Modern Arctic Ice Melt - The model was previously used to describe the behavior of ferromagnets in the presence of external magnetic fields.

Ordinary Security Cameras Could Keep an Eye on Rainfall

Planetary Low Tide May Force Regular Sunspot Sync Ups - A regular alignment of the planets—no, it’s not pseudoscience—makes a strong enough tug to regulate the Sun’s 11- and 22-year cycles.

Microbes Spotted in “Polyextreme” Hot Springs - Hot springs that are as acidic as battery acid are home to single-celled microorganisms that may indicate that life could have been sustained on ancient Mars.

A new study addresses a key PETM mystery: why ocean acidification appears to have occurred to a greater degree in the Atlantic than in the Pacific Ocean

The Blob Causing Earthquakes: Geophysicists discover that a “blob” of rock sinking into the mantle is the force triggering earthquakes in the Hindu Kush.

Rising Methane Emissions Could Derail the Paris Agreement - A new study looks for the source of a spike in the potent greenhouse gas methane.

The Long Memory of the Ocean