Mar 09 2011
Polar Ice Loss: Picking Up the Pace
Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice more rapidly every year and out pacing melt from glaciers.
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Mar 07 2011
Rockies May Have Been Formed by Giant Sucking
A surprising mechanism may have thrust the famous mountain range skywards.
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Mar 03 2011
Antarctica Growing From The Bottom Up
Researchers have discovered that the Antarctic ice sheets grows not only from the top down, but also from the bottom up as water infiltrates the ice matrix and freezes solid.
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Feb 28 2011
Seattle 10 Years After Nisqually Quake
Ten years after a 6.8 earthquake shook the Pacific Northwest, there is still a scramble over seismic hazard preparations.
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Feb 27 2011
Chile’s Seismic Waves Circled Earth and Hit California
On Feb. 27, 2010, the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Chile sent seismic waves circling Earth's surface several times and caused microquakes in California.
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Feb 24 2011
New Zealand-Like Quake Disaster Could Strike Seattle
The soft sediment under Christchurch magnified quake damage in a way seismologists expect to see for cities in the Pacific Northwest.
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Feb 09 2011
China Quakes Give U.S. Temblors Pause
Intercontinental earthquakes, such as the ones that rattled New Madrid, may not strike the same place twice.
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Feb 04 2011
Nevada Goldmine Mystery Solved
A magma event brought forth gold deposits that were overlooked in the early days of prospecting.
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Feb 02 2011
Cows Holding Breath Over New Methane Model
Humans before the Industrial Revolution might not be to blame for early methane rise then -- cows are catching a second wind.
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Jan 31 2011
High Risk of Big Quake in Chile
Central Chile faces a big risk of a very large earthquake close to the site of last year's devastating temblor.
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