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Large methane release could cause abrupt climate change as happened 635 million years ago

An abrupt release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, about 635 million years ago from ice sheets that then extended to Earth’s low latitudes caused a…

'Barren' seafloor teeming with microbial life

Once considered a barren plain with the odd hydrothermal vent, the seafloor appears to be teeming with microbial life, according to a paper being published May…

Stress Buildup Precedes Large Sumatra Quakes

Now, scientists from the California Institute of Technology and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences are harnessing information from these and earlier quakes…

Rewriting Greenland’s immigration history

Most recently two months ago when he and his team discovered that the ancestors of the North American Indians were the first people to populate America, and…

September launch for ESA's gravity mission GOCE

As a consequence of the new launch date, the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite is currently undergoing final flight…

Geoengineering could slow down the global water cycle

However, a new study from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, led by atmospheric scientist Govindasamy Bala, shows that this intentional manipulation of…

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