Geology/Soil

Understanding carbon cycle feedbacks to predict climate change at large scale Credit: Andrew Coelho, Unsplash Photography Thomas Crowther identifies long-disappeared forests available for restoration across the world. He will describe…

NASA grant establishes research community focused on pathways to life on EarthCredit: Rensselaer TROY, N.Y. -- The evolution of planet Earth and the emergence of life during its first half-billion years are inextricably linked, with a…

Credit: © NUST MISIS Members of the Russian startup Bitcarat.com, graduates of the National University of Science and Technology "MISIS", commercialize a unique technology, aimed at verifying and tracing natural diamonds. The method is…

Fighting marine pollutionCredit: GRC- Marine Geosciences /University of Barcelona The light of ALBA Synchrotron will enable revealing the environmental impact of the tons of mining waste thrown for over forty years in the Portman bay…

Toxic metal's fate in marine food webs uncertain due to anthropogenic impacts HANOVER, N.H. - February 14, 2019 - Climate change and the loss of wetlands may contribute to increased levels of mercury concentrations in coastal fish,…

Credit: EarthScope National Office WASHINGTON--What are the 10 most influential, revolutionary, unexpected, or just plain amazing discoveries from EarthScope's 15-year history? "EarthScope has left its mark on earth science in so many…

Controversial discovery suggests early complex organisms may have originated 2.1 billion years ago--more than 1.5 billion years sooner than previous evidence indicated.Credit: Abder El Albani Newly discovered fossilized tracks suggest…

By analyzing hundreds of estuaries at multiple spatial scales, new research identifies factors that drive marsh loss but may be overlooked by traditional assessments.Credit: Anna Braswell DURHAM, N.C. -- Sea-level rise, sediment…

The Research Center for Gas Innovation is developing technology to separate CO2 and methane in oil and gas exploration and store it in offshore salt cavernsCredit: André Julião A set of technologies that is expected to have its first…

Carbon reservoirs on the ocean bottom caused global warming before -- and could do it again, according to research by an international team of scientists led by USCCredit: National Academy of Sciences The world's oceans could harbor an…