Earth Science

Time to obsess about white Christmas

White Christmases are on forecasters radars People in north want to know if they'll have snow, but why? Spokane, Wash., has a white Christmas about 70 percent of the time. The crooner was from Spokane, a city that is among the...

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Oceanic crust formation is dynamic after all

Enlarge A research team led by Brown University studied seismic velocities -- the speed of seismic waves -- in the Gulf of California to determine that a geological phenomenon known as dynamic upwelling occurs in the Earth's...

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Climategate Refuses to Stay Under the Carpet

Climategate Refuses to Stay Under the Carpet BNET Last Friday looked like a red-letter day for climate change skeptics. A hacker (or inside leaker) posted over a thousand emails from the United Kingdom's Climate Research Unit...

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Climate experts debate strategies for reducing atmospheric carbon and future warming

Reducing carbon dioxide to safe levels may require extracting carbon from the air, says Cornell climate researcher. Even if the world's policymakers all agree to dramatically reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions,...

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Data-leak lessons learned from the 'Climategate' hack

In case you've missed it, someone recently dumped a large cache of e-mail files and documents from the University of East Anglia University's prestigious Climactic Research Unit onto the ‘Net. The CRU is one of the leading...

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Pacific Northwest Quakes Could Imperil Urban Areas

Major earthquakes occurring along the Cascadia subduction zone off the coast of Washington state could strike closer to the state’s urban areas than some models have suggested, a new study notes. GPS data gathered at dozens of...

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Competitive Enterprise Institute to sue RealClimate blogger over moderation policy

Gavin Schmidt has done a wonderful job at RealClimate patiently explaining the context of the stolen emails . He's made it perfectly clear that the claims of scientific malpractice are without foundation. He must be doing a...

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Some Questions That Make Some Uneasy

Did the universe have a beginning? It is pretty well accepted in the scientific community that the universe had a beginning. Science has shown that the universe is made up of an untold number of clusters of galaxies.

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Coro Initiates Drilling Program at Chacay Property

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Nov. 25, 2009) - Coro Mining Corp. ("Coro" or the "Company") (TSX:COP) is pleased to announce that it has initiated a 1,000m reverse circulation drilling program at its 100% owned...

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NZOG Builds Up Strong In-House Exploration Team

New Zealand Oil & Gas, which expects to spend at least $30 million in offshore drilling over the summer, has built up a strong in-house exploration team, chief executive David Salisbury told the company's annual meeting.

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