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Researchers trace medieval temperature trends across Africa and Arabia
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Medieval Temperature Trends in Africa and Arabia

by Terri Cook 9 February 201821 February 2023

A synthesis of paleotemperature reconstructions from published case studies suggests warm onshore temperatures persisted across most of Afro-Arabia between 1000 and 1200 CE.

Wheat fields painting
Posted inGeoFIZZ

A Window into the Emerging Anthropocene…Through Art

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 9 January 20184 October 2022

Want a snapshot of how humans have been changing their landscapes since the Industrial Revolution? Look at artwork at a local museum, one geoscientist says.

Ears of corn (maize), showing a wide range of colors and shapes that reflect different varieties
Posted inNews

Corn’s Ancestor Could Help It Go Green

by A. Fox 4 January 201820 October 2021

The grandfather of modern corn may hold the key to reducing its need for chemical fertilizers.

Spencer Canyon landslide tied to earthquake
Posted inNews

Mystery Quakes May Be Among World’s Longest-Lived Aftershocks

Ilima Loomis, Science Writer by Ilima Loomis 16 November 20175 January 2022

New evidence about where a major earthquake struck central Washington State 145 years ago raises the possibility that today’s unusually frequent quakes in the area still echo that 1872 event.

Researchers assess what kind of particles seed cloud formation from the preindustrial era to present day.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Atmospheric Particles Aren’t the Same Cloud Seeds They Once Were

by E. Underwood 7 November 20173 May 2022

Still, more than half of the seeds required for cloud droplets to form in both the present-day and preindustrial atmospheres are made by trace gases that condense to form minute aerosol particles.

Researchers compare satellite measurements of hundred-year-old observations of Earth’s global electrical current
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Ocean Showers Power the Global Electric Circuit

by E. Underwood 26 October 201713 April 2023

Satellite measurements confirm hundred-year-old observations collected by boat.

Satellite image of Nile River
Posted inNews

Volcanic Woes May Have Contributed to Ancient Egypt’s Fall

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 23 October 201728 March 2023

Ice cores and ancient river records suggest that volcanic eruptions may have reduced the flow of the Nile River. Failures of the Nile floods that usually irrigated Egypt’s farms could have fed social unrest.

A school in Kern County in California destroyed by the 1952 earthquake.
Posted inNews

How to Trigger a Massive Earthquake

Lucas Joel by L. Joel 19 October 201727 October 2021

Humans may be to blame for California’s second-largest 20th century earthquake, and a team of seismologists has now proposed how that could have happened.

Posted inEditors' Vox

Stories in the Soil

by T. Papanicolaou 17 October 201715 November 2021

A series of field experiments in the U.S. Midwest is investigating how past, present, and future human activities and climate affect the health of soil.

Posted inNews

Sooty Bird Bellies Yield Insights into Historical Air Pollution

by R. Kaufman 16 October 20174 October 2022

A new study mined museum collections to investigate just how sooty the air in the United States has been for the past 135 years.

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