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Released: 19-Feb-2024 3:05 PM EST
ORNL researchers and leaders reflect on AGU23 and future plans for “wide open science”
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A multidirectorate group from ORNL attended AGU23 and came away inspired for the year ahead in geospatial, earth and climate science

Newswise: Chula Geologists Find New Evidence of Historic Human Activity on Khao Phanom Rung-Khao Plai Bat, Buriram
Released: 16-Feb-2024 8:55 AM EST
Chula Geologists Find New Evidence of Historic Human Activity on Khao Phanom Rung-Khao Plai Bat, Buriram
Chulalongkorn University

Prof. Dr. Santi Pailoplee, Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, in collaboration with the Faculty of Archaeology, Silpakorn University, discovered a large number of rocks and rock formations on Khao Phanom Rung-Plai Bat, Chaloem Phra Kiat District, Buriram Province, which geologically signify human activity in the past, not natural formation.

   
Newswise: SwRI scientists find evidence of geothermal activity within icy dwarf planets
Released: 15-Feb-2024 8:05 PM EST
SwRI scientists find evidence of geothermal activity within icy dwarf planets
Southwest Research Institute

A team co-led by Southwest Research Institute found evidence for hydrothermal or metamorphic activity within the icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake, located in the Kuiper Belt.

Newswise: Early-stage subduction invasion
Released: 15-Feb-2024 7:05 PM EST
Early-stage subduction invasion
Geological Society of America (GSA)

Our planet’s lithosphere is broken into several tectonic plates. Their configuration is ever-shifting, as supercontinents are assembled and broken up, and oceans form, grow, and then start to close in what is known as the Wilson cycle.

Released: 15-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
The ties that bind
Washington University in St. Louis

In a study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, WashU researchers discovered that a common mineral called goethite — an iron-rich mineral that is abundant in soils that cover the Earth — tends to incorporate trace metals into its structure over time, binding the metals in such a way that it locks them out of circulation.

Released: 14-Feb-2024 11:05 PM EST
Did Eurasia's dominant East-West axis "turn the fortunes of history"?
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997) is Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning effort to explain the contrasting histories of Native Americans, Africans and aboriginal Australians vs Europeans and Asians.

Newswise: CyberShake study uses Summit supercomputer to investigate earthquake hazards
Released: 12-Feb-2024 1:05 PM EST
CyberShake study uses Summit supercomputer to investigate earthquake hazards
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers at the Statewide California Earthquake Center, or SCEC, are unraveling the mysteries of earthquakes by using physics-based computational models running on high-performance computing systems at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The team’s findings will provide a better understanding of seismic hazards in the Golden State.

Newswise: New fossil site of worldwide importance uncovered in southern France
Released: 11-Feb-2024 8:05 PM EST
New fossil site of worldwide importance uncovered in southern France
University of Lausanne

Nearly 400 exceptionally well-preserved fossils dating back 470 million years have been discovered in the south of France by two amateur paleontologists.

Released: 8-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
Scandinavia’s first farmers slaughtered the hunter-gatherer population
Lund University

Following the arrival of the first farmers in Scandinavia 5,900 years ago, the hunter-gatherer population was wiped out within a few generations, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden, among others.

Newswise: Why did Earth once turn into a giant frozen snowball? Australian scientists now have an answer
Released: 8-Feb-2024 12:05 PM EST
Why did Earth once turn into a giant frozen snowball? Australian scientists now have an answer
University of Sydney

Australian geologists have used plate tectonic modelling to determine what most likely caused an extreme ice-age climate in Earth’s history, more than 700 million years ago.

Newswise: A new origin story for deadly Seattle fault
Released: 6-Feb-2024 6:05 PM EST
A new origin story for deadly Seattle fault
American Geophysical Union (AGU)

The Seattle fault zone is a network of shallow faults slicing through the lowlands of Puget Sound, threatening to create damaging earthquakes for the more than four million people who live there.

Newswise: Reversible deformation, permanent fabric development
Released: 6-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
Reversible deformation, permanent fabric development
Geological Society of America (GSA)

Earth is a stressed planet. As plates move, magma rises, and glaciers melt—just to mention a few scenarios—rocks are subject to varying pressure and compressional and extensional forces.

Newswise: As sea otters recolonize California estuary, they restore its degraded geology
Released: 31-Jan-2024 5:05 PM EST
As sea otters recolonize California estuary, they restore its degraded geology
Duke University

In the several decades since sea otters began to recolonize their former habitat in Elkhorn Slough, a salt marsh-dominated coastal estuary in central California, remarkable changes have occurred in the landscape.

Newswise: UAH researcher’s digital recreation of Sequoia wildfire wins grand prize in American Geophysical Union competition
Released: 31-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
UAH researcher’s digital recreation of Sequoia wildfire wins grand prize in American Geophysical Union competition
University of Alabama Huntsville

Connor Bleisch, a graduate research assistant in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has won the 2023 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Michael H. Freilich Data Visualization Competition grand prize. The honoree is being recognized for a data visualization project that places the user in the middle of a first-hand recreation of a raging wildfire in the Sequoia National Park in 2021.

Newswise:Video Embedded joint-efforts-to-ensure-the-sustainability-of-our-one-and-only-earth
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Released: 30-Jan-2024 9:00 AM EST
Joint Efforts to Ensure the Sustainability of Our One and Only Earth
National Research Council of Science and Technology

The 37th International Geological Congress (IGC 2024) in August 2024, Busan, Korea, will highlight a growing concern amid urgent threats posed by accelerated climate and environmental changes.

Newswise: Geoengineering may slow Greenland ice sheet loss
Released: 30-Jan-2024 1:00 AM EST
Geoengineering may slow Greenland ice sheet loss
Hokkaido University

Modeling shows that stratospheric aerosol injection has the potential to reduce ice sheet loss due to climate change.

Newswise: Glacier melting destroys important climate data archive
Released: 26-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
Glacier melting destroys important climate data archive
Paul Scherrer Institute

As part of the Ice Memory initiative, researchers analysed ice cores drilled in 2018 and 2020 from the Corbassière glacier at Grand Combin in the canton of Valais. A comparison of the two sets of ice cores published in Nature Geoscience shows: Global warming has made at least this glacier unusable as a climate archive.

Newswise: The moon is shrinking, causing landslides and instability in lunar south pole
Released: 25-Jan-2024 9:05 AM EST
The moon is shrinking, causing landslides and instability in lunar south pole
University of Maryland, College Park

New paper identifies potential landing sites for Artemis mission that are particularly vulnerable to quakes and landslides.

Newswise: New pieces in the puzzle of first life on Earth
Released: 24-Jan-2024 1:05 PM EST
New pieces in the puzzle of first life on Earth
University of Göttingen

Microorganisms were the first forms of life on our planet. The clues are written in 3.5 billion-year-old rocks by geochemical and morphological traces, such as chemical compounds or structures that these organisms left behind.

Released: 23-Jan-2024 5:05 PM EST
Ecosystem from 3.4 billion years ago - New pieces discovered in the cradle of life puzzle
Linnaeus University

A new research study unravels key findings about the earliest life forms on Earth. In rock samples from Barberton, Republic of South Africa, the researchers were able to find evidence of an unprecedented diverse biological carbon cycle, established at 3.42 billion years ago.



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