Geology/Soil

New global atlas offers new way to map coral reefs from spaceCredit: Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation MIAMI--A study from scientists at the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation and the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel…

Not all methane originated in buried, decayed remains of ancient life; some deep hydrocarbons aren't conventional 'fossil fuels' as popularly defined; Abiotic methane: catalyst and nourishment for the earliest life on this planet -- and…

Comprehensive study tracking 26 years of waste disposal shows most stays in-stateCredit: PSE Healthy Energy OAKLAND, Calif. - More than 80 percent of all waste from Pennsylvania's oil and gas drilling operations stays inside the…

Findings reveal that restoration of marsh vegetation is key to overall recoveryCredit: © D. Johnson/VIMS. Nine years ago tomorrow--April 20, 2010--crude oil began leaking from the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig into the Gulf of Mexico…

Comprehensive new earthquake catalog includes 10 times more quakes than previously identified, with a more detailed picture of stresses and structures in the earthCredit: W.L. Huber, USGS. Public domain. LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April 18,…

New research from the University of East Anglia reveals how soil bacteria build the only known enzyme for the destruction of the potent global warming and ozone-depleting gas nitrous oxide. Alongside carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane,…

Urine salts reveal timing and scale of neolithic revolution at Turkish siteCredit: Güneş Duru The transition from hunting and gathering to farming and herding is considered a crucial turning point in the history of…

Credit: Gabriela Zuquim Understanding the ecology and distributions of species in Amazonia is hampered by lack of information about environmental conditions, such as soils. Plant occurrence data are typically more abundant…

New study published in Geological Society of America Bulletin Boulder, Colo., USA: Geologic time scales are critical to understanding the timing, duration, and connection of geologic events. They are not static, and can be improved with…

Credit: © 2019 KAUST Reproduced under a Creative Commons license 4.0 from reference 1 A controlled, laboratory approach, along with computer simulations, has helped KAUST researchers to show that bacterial communities can homogenously…