The next decade of research should focus on the need to understand the changing Antarctic environment and how organisms adapt to it, a high-level report says.Read More »Geology & Geophysics
A geoscience organization recently revised guidelines for preparing the field trip guidebooks and updated its online searchable database for the guides.Read More »Geology & Geophysics
The unprecedented toll from a powerful tsunami shocked a theoretical geophysicist, now an international geoscience organization leader, into action and advocacy to use science to aid society.Read More »Ocean Sciences
Downpours in June drove nutrients into the Mississippi River that ultimately deprived a much larger portion of the Gulf of oxygen than had been expected.Read More »
Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle questioned the administration's proposed cuts and whether support for future missions would be adequate.Read More »
The Philae probe, dropped onto a comet by the Rosetta spacecraft, has made contact with a surface thought too hard to be on a comet and has detected a few organic molecules new to comet exploration.Read More »Biogeosciences
Alfred Wegener, of plate tectonics fame, proposed a link nearly 100 years ago between fungi and "hair ice" on dead wood. A new study has identified the fungus and how it may influence ice structure.Read More »Science Policy & Funding
Alcoa, Cargill, General Motors, Microsoft, and nine other major U.S. companies have committed to cut greenhouse gases as part of a new White House program.Read More »Ocean Sciences
