Using state-of-the-art imaging techniques, palaeontologists at the Ruhr-Universit？t Bochum (RUB) have been examining extinct marine creatures. Quantitative analyses provide new evidence that a...
Earthquake early warning (EEW) strives to detect an earthquake’s initiation, estimate its location and magnitude, and alert people and automated systems to imminent shaking (1, 2). EEW has had...
Unraveling the oceanographic history of the Arctic Ocean and the evolution of weathering inputs from the surrounding continents, which have responded sensitively to local and global environment...
Seventy per cent of glacier ice in British Columbia and Alberta could disappear by the end of the 21st century, creating major problems for local ecosystems, power supplies, and water quality, ...
The Earth’s lower mantle, ranging from 660 km to 2,890 km depth, constitutes more than 50% of Earth’s volume and is the largest geochemical reservoir for many elements. Throughout Earth’s hi...
Precipitation in low latitudes is primarily controlled by the position of the intertropical convergence zone, which migrates from south to north seasonally. The Little Ice Age (defined as AD 14...
Didemnum aurantium, a species whose name refers to the orange color of their colonies, which measure 1.5 cm-5 cm in length. Brazilian researchers described five new species of ascidians, co...
Shiming Wan1, Key Laboratory of Marine Geology and Environment, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China Samuel Toucanne2, Peter D. Clift3, Debo Zhao1,...
One of the surprising discoveries to emerge from the young field of comparative genomics is that drastically different organisms--humans, sea urchins, worms, flies --are endowed with a more or ...
A new study shows habitat fragmentation has harmful effects to world ecosystems. Researchers studied fragmentation at seven sites across five continents. An extensive study of global h...
