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Iceland’s Volcano Spews Unusual, Continental Rock

One aspect of Iceland’s volcanoes of particular interest to geoscientists is that within the magmas being extruded there are small amounts of lightweight,…

NASA Observes Ash Plume of Icelandic Volcano

NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites fly around the world every day capturing images of weather, ice and land changes. Over the last three days these satellites…

Ocean salinities show an intensified water cycle

The stronger water cycle means arid regions have become drier and high rainfall regions wetter as atmospheric temperature increases.The study, co-authored by…

Explorers census hard-to-see sea life: microbes, tiny animals key to Earth's food, carbon systems

Ocean explorers are puzzling out Nature's purpose behind an astonishing variety of tiny ocean creatures like microbes and zooplankton animals – each perhaps a…

GOES-13 is America's new GOES-EAST satellite

“Just in time for the 2010 hurricane season, NOAA will have one of its newest, technologically advanced satellites closely tracking these storms – from when…

Icelandic Volcanoes Can Be Unpredictable And Dangerous

Jay Miller, a research scientist in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program who has made numerous trips to the region and studied there under a Fulbright grant,…

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