From exploring flooded sites to providing alerts, use of robotics aims to “increase the arsenal of tools that can help miners work more safely and efficiently.”Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
The study combines data from a global glacier inventory, a review of existing literature and computer modeling to analyze World Heritage glaciers.Read More »Climate Change
Geoengineering is more than orbiting mirrors and stratospheric aerosols. Innovative modeling considers the impact of no-till farming and radical irrigation.Read More »Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology
Copper ores were long thought to form through purely chemical processes, but a recent study provides the strongest evidence yet that microbial metabolism drives mineral production.Read More »
While vast volumes of fresh groundwater are located offshore, pumping these reserves can also deplete on-shore aquifers and cause land subsidence.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
Glaciologists report in a new study that they suspect iron oxides in rock dust from Antarctica’s mainland are giving some icebergs an unusual color.Read More »Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Volcanology
The meteorite may have been blasted off of Earth during an impact, mixed with lunar rocks, and brought back to Earth 4 billion years later by astronauts.Read More »
