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.

Study suggests La Niña winters could keep on coming

Forecasters are predicting a “three-peat La Niña” this year. This will be the third winter in a row that the Pacific Ocean has been in a La Niña cycle, something…

Model predictions of sea-level change from Greenland melt

Accurate predictions of regional sea-level change are essential in understanding the impact of climate change on coastal areas. Rising sea levels from melting glaciers and ice sheets pose an increasing…

An ocean inside the Earth? Water hundreds of kilometres down

The transition zone between the Earth’s upper and lower mantle contains considerable quantities of water, according to an international study involving the Institute for Geosciences at Goethe University in Frankfurt….

The plate boundary between Africa and the Iberian Peninsula

… could cause large tsunamis. Due to a lack of data, the studies available so far underestimated the seismic and tsunami risk of these large faults. A new study led…

A quadruple increase in CO2 over East Asia

… causes changes in both fast and slow cloud responses. Extreme climate warming has shown to change how cloud cover behaves throughout East Asia (EA). Recent research suggests that in…

Collision eleven million kilometres away

NASA’s DART space probe, launched last year, will test whether the course of an asteroid can be changed at a distance of eleven million kilometres from Earth on 27 September…

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