Jun 27 2011
Humans Dwarf Volcanoes for CO2 Emissions
Analysis shows that People emit more greenhouse gases in three days than all the world's volcanoes do in a year.
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May 26 2011
Inner Moon as Wet as Earth
The inside of the moon may have as much water as Earth's mantle, finds an analysis of moon crystals returned by Apollo astronauts.
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May 24 2011
Contrails Over Buckingham As Ash Continues
A new threshold for flying around volcanic ash plumes will lead to less delays and cancellations during the current Icelandic eruption.
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May 22 2011
Iceland Volcano Erupts
The active Grimsvoetn volcano began erupting Saturday, spewing a 20 kilometer-high column of smoke.
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Mar 19 2011
No Link Between ‘Super Moon’ and Earthquakes
The 'maximal perigee' tonight has only a minimal effect on seismic activity and cannot be linked with last week's earthquakes in Japan.
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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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Jan 24 2011
Coal Fires May Have Contributed to Biggest-Ever Extinction
Around 250 million years ago, over 90 percent of all marine species on Earth went extinct.
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Jan 21 2011
The Sensitive Seasons of Europe
Going back 500 years, scientists find the seasons of Europe more sensitive to outside climate influences than they previously thought.
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Jan 11 2011
EarthObserver: A Planet in Your Pocket
Great new -- free -- earth science software applications for the iPad and iPhone-iPod Touch have been developed by scientists and software engineers at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.
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Jan 11 2011
Lack of Spare Species Leaves Ecosystems Flat
Back-up species play a critical role in keeping populations from crashing.
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