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Sea-Level Rise Linked to Coastal Areas

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 - 19:38:57 - Ehud Rattner

The anticipated sea-level rise associated with climate change, including increased storminess, over the next 100 years and the impact on the nation’s...

How Saturn's Moon Got Its Stripes
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 - Ehud Rattner
Researchers from the University of Melbourne have revealed the origins of tiger stripes and a subsurface ocean on Enceladus...

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What Makes a Rolling Landscape Roll?

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 - 10:36:02 - Anuradha Menon

Anyone who has flown over the western United States knows the patterns well: Seemingly endless repetitions of similar landforms, ridges and valleys...

MIT Team Solves Volcanic Mystery

Saturday, June 6th, 2009 - 14:23:21 - Anuradha Menon

For decades, geologists have been puzzled by the mechanisms that give rise to the kind of volcanoes that form the so-called "ring of fire" around the...

Andes Mountains Are Older Than Thought

Sunday, May 17th, 2009 - 19:39:53 - Ehud Rattner

The geologic faults responsible for the rise of the eastern Andes mountains in Colombia became active 25 million years ago—18 million years before...

Dinosaur-killing Asteroid Theory Challenged

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 - 12:06:06 - Ehud Rattner

The enduringly popular theory that the Chicxulub crater holds the clue to the demise of the dinosaurs, along with some 65 percent of all species 65...

The Moon Reveals Its Weirder Side

Sunday, February 15th, 2009 - 09:55:47 - Sarah Gingichashvili

Results from the Japanese space agency's SELENE mission to the Moon are revealing details about why the lopsided lump of rock orbiting Earth is so...

New Evidence Supports Ice Age Comet Theory
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 - Shalhevet Bar-Asher
Recent geological evidence gathered in Ohio and Indiana has been verified by a University of Cincinnati assistant professor...