Geography

Credit: Carlos Jones/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy Neutrons--Capturing carbon in mid air Researchers used neutron scattering at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Spallation Neutron Source to investigate the…

Traffic on the expanded Highway 175 from Quebec City to the Saguenay has been a cause of death for thousands of small and medium-sized mammalsCredit: Concordia University Most motorists pay little attention to the amount of roadkill they…

Credit: Alison Banwell The filling and draining of meltwater lakes has been found to cause a floating Antarctic ice shelf to flex, potentially threatening its stability. A team of British and American researchers, co-led by the…

Credit: Bureau of Land Management Under climate change, plants and animals will shift their habitats to track the conditions they are adapted for. As they do, the lands surrounding rivers and streams offer natural migration routes that…

Credit: Robert Cooke A study led by researchers at the University of Southampton reveals huge variations in the similarity and breadth of animal roles in nature across different parts of the world. The research, in partnership with…

Credit: Universität Hamburg/LDF/V M.Hartig/Meyer Werft An international team led by the Innsbruck geologists Arata Kioka, Tobias Schwestermann, Jasper Moernaut, and Michael Strasser could quantify for the first time the entire trench-wide…

Credit: Carey Marks/University of Plymouth Soil erosion can have a devastating impact on traditional farming landscapes in developing countries. But its effects can only be fully addressed through significant advances in interdisciplinary…

Peasant farmers began transforming diets across the Old World 7,000 years ago, study findsCredit: Data source: Xinyi Liu; Animation by Javier Ventura/Washington University in St. Louis. Since the beginning of archaeology, researchers have…

Unlocking geospatial data is key to redefining spaces in our society As self-driving cars continue to develop, there will be plenty of data amassed through cars' navigational technologies. Questions regarding privacy, ownership,…

New method, co-developed at UMD, refines the 2,600-year history of large eruptions that inject planet-cooling particles into the stratosphereCredit: Dave Harlow/USGS For all their destructive power, most volcanic eruptions are local…