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“U.S. communities routinely use zoning laws to control where businesses may operate in a neighborhood. Now there’s a move to zone the ocean
Tags: archaeology, geophysics, hydropower, mexico, news, ocean, oil and gas, shale, south-carolina“U.S. communities routinely use zoning laws to control where businesses may operate in a neighborhood
Tags: ads-by-google, climate-change, current-events, hydropower, massachusetts, north-carolina, ocean, philippines, south-carolinaNASA researchers “investigated how Earth’s plant life is likely to react over the next three centuries as Earth’s climate changes in response to rising levels of human-produced greenhouse gases.” Quote from the NASA press release.
Tags: carolina, geology, Geology.com, Jobs, mexico, NASA, north-carolina, ocean, pennsylvania, plants, united-states, washingtonThe West Mata Volcano – at 4000 feet below the ocean ’s surface – is the deepest documented volcanic eruption . The volcano is located near Fiji in the southwestern Pacific
Tags: afghanistan, astronomy, california, earthquakes, Jobs, mexico, minerals, ocean, pennsylvania, plate-tectonics, virginia, water“In a matter of five days, the Philippines and southeastern Asia were hammered by two intense tropical storms in late September and early October 2011. Several months worth of rain fell within a week—a deluge even by tropical standards—on Luzon in the northern Philippines, as well as in northern Vietnam and the Chinese island of Hainan.” Quoted from the NASA image release.
“Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world’s ocean , surrounds a huge, feeding black hole, called a quasar, more than 12 billion light-years away.” Quoted from the NASA press release
Tags: ads-by-google, astronomy, climate-change, earth, earthquakes, marcellus-shale, massachusetts, middle-east, ocean, satellite images, space, universe, virginia“Scientists and drillers recovered a remarkable suite of heat-tempered basalts that provide a detailed picture of the rarely seen boundary between magma and seawater. These samples were collected during a return to ODP Hole 1256D, one of the deepest “hard rock” penetration sites of scientific ocean drilling.” Quoted from the IODP press release.
Tags: earthquakes, environment, geophysics, ocean, oceanography, pennsylvania, rocks, water“The breakthrough moment for oceanographer Gary Lagerloef, the principal investigator for NASA ’s new Aquarius mission, came in 1991. That’s when he knew it would be possible to make precise measurements of ocean salinity from space. It has taken nearly two decades to turn that possibility into a reality.” Quoted from the NASA press release.
Tags: california, climate-change, earth, Geology.com, middle-east, NASA, ocean, oceanography, satellite images, space, united, united-statesResearchers at Caltech’s Seismological Laboratory “are using data from GPS satellite systems in an entirely new way: to measure the solid earth’s response to the movements of ocean tides—which place a large stress on Earth’s surface—and to estimate separately the effects of Earth’s density and the properties controlling response when a force is applied to it (known as elastic moduli).”
Tags: astronomy, earth, earth's interior, energy, massachusetts, mexico, ocean, oceanography, satellite images“A new study reveals that a group of ancient enzymes adapted to substantial changes in ocean temperature and acidity during the last four billion years, providing evidence that life on Early Earth evolved from a much hotter, more acidic environment to the cooler, less acidic global environment that exists today.” Quoted from the Georgia Tech press release.
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