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Earth's magnetic shield is much older than previously thought
Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)
Since 2010, the best estimate of the age of Earth's magnetic field has been 3.45 billion years. But now a researcher responsible for that finding has new data s...
UAlberta scientists part of unprecedented worldwide biodiversity study
Jul 20, 2015 (SPX)
Humans depend on high levels of ecosystem biodiversity, but due to climate change and changes in land use, biodiversity loss is now greater than at any time in ...
A deep, dark mystery
Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)
UC Santa Barbara geologist Jim Boles has found evidence of helium leakage from the Earth's mantle along a 30-mile stretch of the Newport-Inglewood Fault Zone in...
Earth's daily rotation period encoded in an atomic-level protein structure
Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)
A collaborative group of Japanese researchers has demonstrated that the Earth's daily rotation period (24 hours) is encoded in the KaiC protein at the atomic le...
New Grand Canyon age research focuses on western Grand Canyon
Jun 17, 2015 (SPX)
The age of the Grand Canyon (USA) has been studied for years, with recent technological advances facilitating new attempts to determine when erosion of this ico...
Missing link in metal physics explains Earth's magnetic field
Jan 29, 2015 (SPX)
Earth's magnetic field is crucial for our existence, as it shields the life on our planet's surface from deadly cosmic rays. It is generated by turbulent motion...
Constraints on the evolution of vertical deformation near Lake Mead
Jan 26, 2015 (SPX)
The 12- to 6-million-year-old Hualapai Limestone was deposited in a series of basins that lie in the path of the Colorado River directly west of the Colorado Pl...
A voyage from the Earth's crust to its mantle and back again
Jan 21, 2015 (SPX)
From the beginning of time, uranium has been part of the Earth and, thanks to its long-lived radioactivity, it has proven ideal to date geological processes and...
Nearly half the systems crucial to stability of planet compromised
Jan 20, 2015 (SPX)
Almost half of the processes that are crucial to maintaining the stability of the planet have become dangerously compromised by human activity. That is the view...
Two Palestinian babies die in Gaza freeze
Jan 10, 2015 (AFP)
Two Palestinian babies have died due to cold weather in the Gaza Strip, an official said Saturday, as winter storms lashed the region. A two-month-old girl from...
University of Tennessee professor researches rare rock with 30,000 diamonds
Jan 06, 2015 (SPX)
Diamonds are beautiful and enigmatic. Though chemical reactions that create the highly coveted sparkles still remain a mystery, a professor from the University ...
Ancient, hydrogen-rich waters discovered deep underground
Jan 02, 2015 (SPX)
A team of scientists, led by the University of Toronto's Barbara Sherwood Lollar, has mapped the location of hydrogen-rich waters found trapped kilometres benea...
Most of Earth's carbon may be hidden in the planet's inner core
Dec 02, 2014 (SPX)
As much as two-thirds of Earth's carbon may be hidden in the inner core, making it the planet's largest carbon reservoir, according to a new model that even its...
Deep-Earth Carbon Offers Clues About Origin of Life on Earth
Nov 25, 2014 (SPX)
New findings by a Johns Hopkins University-led team reveal long unknown details about carbon deep beneath the Earth's surface and suggest ways this subterranean...
Earth's magnetic field could flip within a human lifetime
Oct 16, 2014 (SPX)
Imagine the world waking up one morning to discover that all compasses pointed south instead of north. It's not as bizarre as it sounds. Earth's magnetic field ...
Saharan dust key to the formation of Bahamas' Great Bank
Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)
A new study suggests that Saharan dust played a major role in the formation of the Bahamas islands. Researchers from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel Sch...
Natural resources worth more than US$40 trillion must be accounted for
Jun 30, 2014 (SPX)
Governments and companies must do more to account for their impact and dependence on the natural environment - according to researchers at the University of Eas...
Studies show movements of continents speeding up after slow 'middle age'
Jun 19, 2014 (SPX)
Two studies show that the movement rate of plates carrying the Earth's crust may not be constant over time. This could provide a new explanation for the pattern...
From today, the Earth is around 60 million years older -- and so is the moon
Jun 13, 2014 (SPX)
Work presented at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Sacramento, California shows that the timing of the giant impact between Earth's ancestor and a pla...
'Substantial' damage feared in Australia wildfires
Oct 17, 2013 (AFP)
At least 100 homes are feared to have been destroyed by intense wildfires which tore across southeastern Australia in horror wind conditions Thursday, as firefi...
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