Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences (also referred to as Geosciences), which deals with basic issues surrounding our planet, plays a vital role in the area of energy and raw materials supply.

Earth Sciences comprises subjects such as geology, geography, geological informatics, paleontology, mineralogy, petrography, crystallography, geophysics, geodesy, glaciology, cartography, photogrammetry, meteorology and seismology, early-warning systems, earthquake research and polar research.

Climate Change Releases Carbon Stocks Deep Underground

Subsoils are the largest storehouses for carbon, as well as one of the most important sources of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Global warming is accelerating the decomposition of soil…

Ground beneath Antarctica’s most vulnerable glacier mapped for first time

The ground beneath Antarctica’s most vulnerable glacier has been mapped for the first time, by a team that includes a Swansea expert, helping scientists to better understand how it is…

Aviation turbulence strengthened as the world warmed

The skies aircraft fly through are bumpier today than four decades ago, scientists have found, after producing a new analysis showing that turbulence has increased as the climate changed.  New…

How an earthquake becomes a tsunami

The movement between continental and oceanic plates at the bottom of the sea, so-called megathrust earthquakes, generates the strongest earth tremors and the most dangerous tsunamis. How and when they…

Tectonics matter

USU geoscientists probe geochemistry, microbial diversity of Peruvian hot springs. Heather Upin, Dennis Newell report microbial community composition is distinctly different in two tectonic settings. South America’s Andes Mountains, the…

Sea level and monsoon

How do they influence the development of coral islands? Coral islands are in danger of slowly sinking in the face of rising sea levels. In a new study, researchers from…

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