A study from the University of Texas at Austin is the first published in a scientific journal to take an in-depth look at the challenging geologic conditions faced by the crew of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and the role those conditions played in the 2010 disaster. The well blowout killed 11 people and spewed ...
A recently documented stand of bald cypress trees in North Carolina, including one tree at least 2,624 years old, are the oldest known living trees in eastern North America and the oldest known wetland tree species in the world. David Stahle, Distinguished Professor of Geosciences, along with colleagues from the university’s Ancient Bald Cypress Consortium ...
Radioactive carbon released into the atmosphere from 20th-century nuclear bomb tests has reached the deepest parts of the ocean, new research finds. A new study in AGU’s journal Geophysical Research Letters finds the first evidence of radioactive carbon from nuclear bomb tests in muscle tissues of crustaceans that inhabit Earth’s ocean trenches, including the Mariana Trench, home to the ...
A United Nations report has warned that 5 billion people across the world could suffer from water shortages by 2050. The situation is being created due to multiple factors, like increased water demand, polluted supplies, and climate change. An impending water shortage crisis According to estimates, human beings use almost 4,600 cubic km of water ...
When the landmass that is now the Indian subcontinent slammed into Asia about 50 million years ago, the collision changed the configuration of the continents, the landscape, the global climate, and more. Now, a team of Princeton University scientists has identified one more effect: The oxygen in the world’s oceans increased, altering the conditions for ...
The idea of the heat island — that densely built-up urban areas are considerably hotter than the rural and semi-rural landscapes that surround them — has been extensively studied and is widely accepted by academics and the public. But a new study by a Concordia researcher takes a closer look at the phenomenon and what ...
With plastic pollution becoming a major problem in China, the government seems to have awakened to the issue, framing policies to limit the menace. Globally, less than a fifth of the world’s plastic is recycled. As far as China is concerned, it only recycles about 25 percent. The country accounts for nearly 29 percent of global ...
Hong Kong’s Consumer Council has found that the tuna being sold in the region contains excessive amounts of the heavy metal mercury. Of the 50 sashimi samples tested, 49 confirmed the presence of the toxic compound. Of the 19 tuna samples, 10 contained amounts of mercury far beyond the expected levels. One tuna and sashimi ...
Researchers at the University of Western Australia have found that although the Indian Ocean is the world’s biggest dumping ground for plastic waste, nobody seems to know where it goes. Professor Chari Pattiaratchi, from UWA’s Oceans Graduate School and the Oceans Institute, said compared to other ocean basins, little research had been done to measure ...
NASA is requesting people to take pictures of trees through its recently launched smartphone app — the Globe Observer. The space agency hopes that data collected from the public will help it confirm the accuracy of canopy data collected by its ICESat-2 satellite. Collecting data on trees “Observers can measure one tree or hundreds. The ...
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