Geography

Sydney-led consortium wins $3M Google Earth licence for Paddy WatchCredit: University of Sydney Google Earth, the Group on Earth Observations and the University of Sydney will develop the world's first real-time monitoring…

Credit: Karen Vaughan When it comes to soils, proper identification is key. Identification allows scientists to determine the story behind the soil: how it formed, how it behaves in different scenarios, and how valuable it may be to…

Credit: D. Viviroli Global water consumption has increased almost fourfold in the past 100 years, and many regions can only meet their water demand thanks to essential contributions from mountain regions. In 30 years, almost a…

Newly comprehensive continental drought atlas covers last 600 yearsCredit: Ricardo Villalba, Argentine Institute of Snow, Glacier and Environmental Sciences, at the National Research Council for Science and Technology …

How did the chemical makeup of our planet's core shape its geologic history and habitability? Washington, DC-- How did the chemical makeup of our planet's core shape its geologic history and habitability? Life as we know it could not…

Credit: William J. Baker Characteristics of palm trees differ from those of other tropical trees in many ways. In a major new study led by scientists at Uppsala University, Sweden, and University of Campinas, Brazil, they…

Scientific study describes the nursery of sea ice and provides the basis for future assessments of research dataCredit: Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Markus Rex, CC-BY 4.0 The New Siberian Islands were the birthplace of…

Intensive erosion influenced seismicity Credit: NASA/LANDSAT The Earth's crust is under constant stress. Every now and then this stress is discharged in heavy earthquakes, mostly caused by the slow movement of Earth's…

New Curtin University-led research has uncovered how rocks sourced from the Earth's mantle are linked to the formation and breakup of supercontinents and super oceans over the past 700 million years, suggesting that the Earth is…

Finding new giant copper, lead, zinc deposits could fuel green infrastructure Credit: Adapted from Hoggard et al., Nature Geoscience, 2020 If the world is to maintain a sustainable economy and fend off the worst effects of…

A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered in Greenlandic waters by scientists from UCL, ZSL and Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, using an innovative and low-cost deep-sea video camera built and deployed by…

What The Study Did: This study examined the worldwide trends of thyroid cancer from 1990 to 2017 according to geographic location, sex, age and socioeconomic factors. Authors: Jun Lyu, Ph.D., of the First Affiliated Hospital of…

Ecology experts connect species to Asia, Antarctica Credit: James Dorey, Flinders University Ancestors of a distinctive pollinating bee found across Australia probably originated in tropical Asian countries, islands in the…

New UD study shows that tropical forest loss is increased by large-scale land acquisitionsCredit: Photo courtesy of Kyle Davis In recent years, there has been a rise in foreign and domestic large-scale land acquisitions--defined as…

Credit: Global Airborne Observatory, ASU Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science. Throughout California, the effects of climate change are evident from increasing frequencies of intense wildfires and mudslides to…

The SeaBee Project will develop infrastructure, tools, and techniques to help map and study the Norwegian coastline in unprecedented detail OSLO/ARENDAL, Norway - The new SeaBee project, funded by a NOK 60 million grant from the Research…

Scientists suggest a new 'opening-closing' tectonic theory to explain the origin of the Tibetan PlateauCredit: Earth Science Frontiers Earth's geographical surfaces have been formed over millions of years, and various current…

An international and interdisciplinary team led by the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, is developing sustainable strategies for the management of marine ecosystems.Credit: Ruth…

A new study by the University of Leeds and University of Oxford has examined spatial biodiversity patterns across the Permo-Triassic mass extinction event. (c. 252 million years ago). The Permo-Triassic mass extinction represents the…

Credit: Professor Zheng-Xiang Li New Curtin University research on the remixing of Earth's stratified deep interior suggests that global plate tectonic processes, which played a pivotal role in the existence of life on Earth,…