Largest Freshwater Lake on Earth Was Reduced to Desert Dunes
Fossilized fish. The drying of Lake Mega-Chad reveals a story of dramatic climate change in the southern Sahara, with a …
June 2015
Helium leakage from Earth's mantle in Los Angeles Basin
The Newport-Inglewood fault was responsible for the 4.9 magnitude Inglewood earthquake in 1920 and the 6.4 magnitude Lon…
Indonesian mud volcano likely human-caused
Earthquake not to blame for Indonesian mud volcano New research hopes to close the debate on whether a major mud volca…
Optimizing shale gas production from well to wire
A researcher has analyzed the life-cycle of the shale gas supply chain and operations and found that the process syste…
Opportunities for Geothermal Energy: New Method Reveals Past Underground Temperatures
Rocks store information about the temperatures that they have experienced. Wageningen University researchers and intern…
A 'hydrothermal siphon' drives water circulation through the seafloor
Studies by Andrew Fisher and colleagues have shown that seamounts provide conduits through which enormous quantities of…
Image: Central California and the San Andreas Fault
Credit: Copernicus data (2015)/ESA This image captured by Sentinel-1A's radar on 1 April 2015 shows a central regi…
Earth's daily rotation period encoded in an atomic-level protein structure
This image shows Earth and the circadian clock protein KaiC. Scientists have demonstrated that Earth's daily …
Scientists persuade volcanoes to tell their stories
Laser compositional image in 3D of a volcanic crystal. Different crystal zones are shown with different colours. Credit:…
Understanding subduction zone earthquakes: The 2004 Sumatra earthquake
Location map of Sumatra, Indonesia, depicting rupture areas for the AD 2004 and 2005 subduction zone earthquakes. T…
Uplifted island
Uplift in the Santa María island as a result of the Maule earthquake in 2010. The island experienced a sudden uplift abo…
New estimates of deep carbon cycle
Major fluxes of carbon estimated by Craig Manning and Peter Kelemen. Over billions of years, the total carbon con…
Lake Fire in California burns over 11,000 acres
The Lake Fire located in San Bernardino National Forest was reported just before 4:00 p.m. on June 17. The cause of the…
Sixth mass extinction is here: Humanity's existence threatened
Chart shows the enormous uptick in species loss over the last century. Biologists have use highly conservative es…
