Geology/Soil

International research team solves theory of how diamonds formed inside protoplanets It is estimated that over 10 million asteroids are circling the Earth in the asteroid belt. They are relics from the early days of our solar system, when…

Credit: Buckfastleigh Flood Action Group The planting of woodlands in upland areas could play a significant role in preventing the flash flooding which has increasingly affected communities across the world in recent years. A…

Credit: Tsuneaki Yamabe, Faculty of Textile Science and Engineering Technical Staff. Laboratory investigation of earthquake lightning due to landslide, Earth, Planets and Space (2020) Were you aware that earthquakes are…

Discovery of a topological change of an interfacial hydrodynamics by a partial miscibility and creating a cross-disciplinary discipline of chemical thermodynamics and interfacial hydrodynamicsCredit: Yuichiro Nagatsu/TUAT, Takahiko Ban/…

Droughts are, after floods and storms, the costliest natural hazard. The expected increa,se in the frequency and intensity of drought events due to climate change reinforces the necessity to improve the quality and reliability of…

Credit: Mariana Verdonen Landslides have long-term effects on tundra vegetation, a new study shows. Conducting the study in North West Siberia, the researchers found that tundra vegetation regenerated rapidly after a major landslide…

Credit: University of Cambridge Researchers have shown that over the past two thousand years, volcanoes have played a larger role in natural temperature variability than previously thought, and their climatic effects may have…

Credit: Modified after Koike et al. (2020) EPSL Researchers have shaken up a once accepted timeline for cataclysmic events in the early solar system. About 4.5 Ga (giga-anum, or billion years ago), as a large disc of dust…

Credit: Dr Alexander Kirdyanov The largest-ever study of tree rings from Norilsk in the Russian Arctic has shown that the direct and indirect effects of industrial pollution in the region and beyond are far worse than previously…

First-of-its-kind international study is rooted in 17 million year-old whale fossilCredit: Isaiah Nengo STONY BROOK, NY, (Under Embargo until September 25, 12:01 AM, EST) - A 17 million-year-old whale fossil discovered in the…

New scientific publications reviewed since January 2020 strengthen the evidence that climate change increases the frequency and/or severity of fire weather in many regions of the world. Published today at ScienceBrief.org, the updated…

$4.2 million grant to uncover mysteries of deep earth-dwelling microbesCredit: (Danny Newman and Mia Maltz/UCR) UC Riverside is leading an effort that could help ensure food security and improve the worst effects of climate…

Credit: APS PRESS Since publication of the second edition of Compendium of Pea Diseases and Pests by APS PRESS almost two decades ago, pea production acreage has increased tremendously in response to rising consumer demands for…

Much of life on planet Earth today relies on oxygen to exist, but before oxygen was present on our blue planet, lifeforms likely used arsenic instead. These findings are detailed in research published today in Communications Earth and…

International research team led by Göttingen University shows patterned vegetation regenerates by "ecosystem engineering" of the grassesCredit: S Getzin, University of Göttingen Fairy circles are one of nature's greatest…

Credit: Kammie Tavares The reactive and piecemeal approach historically used to manage beaches in Hawai'i has failed to protect them. If policies are not changed, as much as 40% of all beaches on O'ahu, Hawai'i could be lost before…

A total of $7.97 million will fund new research and preserve important data across the NationCredit: USGS The U.S. Geological Survey and the Association of American State Geologists are pleased to announce the projects that have received…

New archaeological research presents the oldest securely dated evidence for humans in ArabiaCredit: Palaeodeserts Project Situated between Africa and Eurasia, the Arabian Peninsula is an important yet understudied region…

Credit: ETH Zurich For a long time, geoscientists have assumed that the Alps were formed when the Adriatic plate from the south collided with the Eurasian plate in the north. According to the textbooks, the Adriatic plate behaved…

Integrating cover crops into the cotton production system can be a challenge, especially along the northern edge of the Cotton Belt. In recent years, there has been an increase in the use of cover crops in Tennessee and along with that,…