earth science

Few people on Earth have reached closer to its center than Buzz Speyrer, a drilling engineer with a long career in oil…
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Leaving the cultivated hillsides of the village, we crossed the park border and soon entered tropical forest, where…
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OK, a couple of quick points. This is just the surface temperature of the Earth. Since the light from the sun just hits…
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It’s clear that Hunga involved an unusually explosive recipe that may not be easily replicated. For about a month, the…
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Invasive species introduced by humans to new regions can also be markers, the scientists said. The inadvertent import of…
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In 2023, the relentless increase in global heating will continue, bringing ever more disruptive weather that is the…
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SWOT could turn out to be a major improvement over measurements by previous satellites. “Instead of a ‘pencil beam’…
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“These things are hard to tip over,” geologist Wilson Bonner assures me as the four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle he’s…
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The scientists used the device to record the snow’s albedo, a measure of what fraction of the sunlight beaming down is…
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Leaf waxes also predate climate records from Antarctic ice cores, which go back only about a million years and require a…
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