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WMO strengthens satellite strategy to monitor climate change

The backing came during a two-day high-level meeting that ended 16 January, 2008, in New Orleans, USA. The annual WMO Consultative Meetings on High-level…

Man-Made Changes Bring About New Epoch in Earth's History

Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams at the University of Leicester and their colleagues on the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London have…

Antarctic ice loss speeds up, nearly matches Greenland loss

In a first-of-its-kind study, an international team led by Eric Rignot, professor of Earth system science at UCI and a scientist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion…

First evidence of under-ice volcanic eruption in Antarctica

Using airborne ice-sounding radar, scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) discovered a layer of ash produced by a ‘subglacial’ volcano. It extends…

Deep-ocean researchers target tsunami zone near Japan

Rice University Earth scientist Dale Sawyer and colleagues last month reported the discovery of a strong variation in the tectonic stresses in a region of the…

Paired microbes eliminate methane using sulfur pathway

“The dominant role anaerobic oxidation of methane plays in regulating marine methane makes it a significant component of the global methane and carbon cycles,”…

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