Hard Rocks from Himalaya Raise Flood Risk for Millions
This is an image of the Modi Khola river, Nepal.
Credit: Henry Pinder
Scientists have shown how earthquakes and storms in the Himalaya can increase the...
Porewater Salinity: Key to Reconstructing 250,000 Years of Lake Van’s History
Carpanak, from peninsula to an island.
Credit: Image courtesy of EAWAG: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
The sediments of Lake Van in Eastern...
Engineers Find Way to Evaluate Green Roofs
Graduate student Reshmina William, left, and civil and environmental engineering professor Ashlynn Stillwell pause on the green roof over the Business Instructional Facility at...
New plate adds plot twist to ancient tectonic tale
Misfit plates in the Pacific led Rice University scientists to the discovery of the Malpelo Plate between the Galapagos...
Group relocation preserves social connections among elderly Japanese Tsunami survivors
Hirojuki Hikichi and colleagues monitored adults over the age of 65 roughly seven months before the disaster, originally to conduct an...
Strength of tectonic plates may explain shape of the Tibetan Plateau
A topographic map of the area around the Tibetan Plateau, left, and the map view of the composite strong and weak Asian plate model,...
Assessing regional earthquake risk and hazards in the age of exascale
Researchers at Berkeley Lab, LLNL and UC Davis are utilizing ground motion estimates from a regional-scale geophysics model to drive infrastructure assessments.
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Understanding bacteria’s slimy fortresses
Princeton researchers have examined how individual cells act collectively to form structures called biofilms that often play a critical role in disease and other...
Earth’s magnetosphere: Discovery of zebra stripes in space resolves a half-century mystery
The Earth's magnetosphere is home to the plasma waves being studied by Yuri Shprits and colleagues.
Credit: NASA
In the 1960s, NASA launched six satellites to...
Space missions locate whistling space electrons’ origins
The Van Allen Belts, shown in green in this illustration, are concentric doughnut-shaped belts filled with charged particles, trapped by Earth's magnetic field.
Credit: Tony...
Off track: How storms will veer in a warmer world
Storm (stock image).
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Under global climate change, Earth's climatic zones will shift toward the poles. This is not just a future...
