Earth’s gravity revealed in unprecedented detail
After just two years in orbit, ESA’s GOCE satellite has gathered enough data to map Earth’s gravity with unrivalled precision. Scientists now have access to the most accurate model of the ‘geoid’ ever...
View ArticleMonsoons spinning the Earth’s plates
A new study from The Australian National University has for the first time confirmed that long-term climate change has the potential to spin the Earth’s tectonic plates. Continue: ANU paper: ScienceDirect
View ArticleVulnerable Cities: Megacities and Earthquake Risk
Enlarge The following map is a modified version of the earthquake vulnerability map published on Views of the World last month (see that page for more details on the underlying earthquake map). The map...
View ArticleWhat was it like the last time CO2 levels were this high?
A vivid picture of our climate’s future can be found in our past. Currently, atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels have reached 390 parts per million (ppm). The last time CO2 was that high was around...
View ArticleWhat is shale gas ?
Shale gas refers to natural gas that is trapped within shale formations. Shales are fine-grained sedimentary rocks that can be rich sources of petroleum and natural gas. Over the past decade, the...
View ArticleSnow, Water, Ice, Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA)
Scientists have known for decades that global climate change has been having an outsized impact on the Arctic, but according to a new assessment from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program — part...
View ArticleSjældne jordmetaller sætter Grønland på verdens energikort
Ingeniøren: Grønland rummer sandsynligvis verdens største depot af sjældne jordmetaller, der i så fald kan dække en fjerdedel af det globale behov. Fortsæt More: Hudson Resources Inc. Hudson is focused...
View ArticleWelcome to the Anthropocene
The Economist THE Earth is a big thing; if you divided it up evenly among its 7 billion inhabitants, they would get almost 1 trillion tonnes each. To think that the workings of sovast an entity could...
View ArticleHuman Activities Produce More Carbon Dioxide Emissions Than Do Volcanoes
On average, human activities put out in just three to five days, the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide that volcanoes produce globally each year. This is one of the messages detailed in a new article...
View ArticlePlanet’s Soils Are Under Threat
In some parts of the world, losses due to erosion are greatly outstripping the natural rate of soil formation; and the intensity of human activity is impacting the ability of soil to produce food,...
View ArticleCauses of Melting Tropical Glaciers Over Past 10,000 Years Identified
The causes of melting of tropical glaciers over the past 10,000 years have at last been unveiled by a team of French researchers from CNRS, CEA, IRD and Université Joseph Fourrier, together with a US...
View ArticleAn Oil Man’s Geological Case for Climate Concern
From: Revkin | Jun 24, 2011 | Bryan Lovell, a longtime oil geologist and president of the Geological Society of London, explains how analysis of rocks led to his deep concern about the buildup of...
View ArticleAcceleration of outlet glaciers and ice flows in Greenland and Antarctica is...
“Water has a much larger heat capacity than air. If you put an ice cube in a warm room, it will melt in several hours. But if you put an ice cube in a cup of warm water, it will disappear in just...
View ArticleHimalaya glaciers shrinking on global warming
(Reuters) – Three Himalaya glaciers have been shrinking over the last 40 years due to global warming and two of them, located in humid regions and on lower altitudes in central and east Nepal, may...
View ArticleAn ice sheet on the move
ESA: 18 August 2011 A huge network of glaciers, carrying ice thousands of kilometres across Antarctica, has been discovered as a result of space agencies’ efforts to focus their satellites on Earth’s...
View ArticleArctic sea ice extent small as never before
Credit: University of Bremen Alerting message from the Arctic: The extent the the Arctic sea ice has reached on Sep. 8 with 4.240 million km2 a new historic minimum . Physicists of the University of...
View ArticleScientists weighs changes of the Greenland ice sheet
The Cryosphere ICESat has provided surface elevation measurements of the ice sheets since the launch in January 2003, resulting in a unique dataset for monitoring the changes of the cryosphere. The...
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Images taken by the optical and radar instruments on board ESA’s Envisat Satellite orbiting 800 km above the Earth are set to relaxing music. Originally produced for Lufthansa inflight entertainment...
View ArticleEarth’s Acidity Rising
Human use of Earth’s natural resources is making the air, oceans, freshwaters, and soils more acidic, according to a U.S. Geological Survey – University of Virginia study available online in the...
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