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What lies beneath melting glaciers and thawing permafrost?

Around the planet, ice is rapidly disappearing. From mountain tops, the poles, the seas, and the tundra. As the ice melts, it's exposing new surfaces, new opportunities, and new threats—including valuable mineral deposits, archaeological relics, no.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgSep 14th, 2022

Experts Finally Identify Mysterious Remains Found Buried Beneath Notre Dame Cathedral

Experts Finally Identify Mysterious Remains Found Buried Beneath Notre Dame Cathedral.....»»

Category: topSource:  theglobeandmailRelated NewsSep 22nd, 2024

Scientists looked deep beneath the Doomsday Glacier. What they found spells potential disaster for the planet

Scientists looked deep beneath the Doomsday Glacier. What they found spells potential disaster for the planet.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsSep 20th, 2024

The Outrageous Scheme to Capture and Sell Greenland’s Meltwater

A startup says shipping meltwater from Greenland’s glaciers internationally will boost the local economy and could help ease water pressures in arid regions—but what does that actually mean for the world?.....»»

Category: gadgetSource:  wiredRelated NewsSep 19th, 2024

Geoscientists confirm "dripping" of Earth"s crust beneath Türkiye"s Central Anatolian Plateau

Recent satellite data reveal that the Konya Basin in the Central Anatolian Plateau of Türkiye is continually being reshaped over millions of years, according to a new analysis led by Earth scientists at the University of Toronto......»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsSep 18th, 2024

Ocean sediment is a "mudtropolis"—meet the carbon-cycling creatures thriving beneath the seabed

Sitting in darkness, deep below the sunlit surface, an iridescent nightmare awaits its prey. With precision and speed, it strikes and slices a passing fish clean in half with a set of jaws twice the width of its head. The armor-plated creature retrea.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 18th, 2024

Rare woolly rhino mummies emerge from the permafrost

The new finds confirm the existence of a feature seen in cave art. Enlarge / Portion of a reproduction of cave paintings in France, showing rhinos (among other species). (credit: JEFF PACHOUD) For most people, an extinct.....»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsSep 17th, 2024

Complex dynamics of 2024 M 7.6 Noto Hanto earthquake in Japan—the long-lasting swarm and its immediate foreshocks

A study published in the journal Earthquake Research Advances sheds light on the relationship between the 2024 magnitude 7.6 Noto Hanto earthquake and a sizable earthquake swarm that began beneath Japan's Noto Peninsula in November 2020......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 16th, 2024

"Disappeared completely": melting glaciers worry Central Asia

Near a wooden hut high up in the Kyrgyz mountains, scientist Gulbara Omorova walked to a pile of gray rocks, reminiscing how the same spot was a glacier just a few years ago......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 16th, 2024

Gravity study gives insights into hidden features beneath lost ocean of Mars and rising Olympus Mons

Studies of gravity variations at Mars have revealed dense, large-scale structures hidden beneath the sediment layers of a lost ocean. The analysis, which combines models and data from multiple missions, also shows that active processes in the Martian.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 13th, 2024

Printed engines propel the next industrial revolution

In the fall of 2023, NASA hot fire tested an aluminum 3D printed rocket engine nozzle. Aluminum is not typically used for 3D printing because the process causes it to crack, and its low melting point makes it a challenging material for rocket engines.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 13th, 2024

Deep underground flooding beneath hot springs: A potential trigger for the 1995 Kobe earthquake

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have shown that the 1995 Kobe (Hyogo-ken Nanbu) earthquake, which struck southern Hyogo Prefecture, may have been triggered by deep underground flooding beneath Arima Hot Springs. By analyzing the stable isotope r.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 13th, 2024

Climate change is accelerating extreme melting in Greenland with global impacts, says study

Climate change is accelerating the melting of ice in Greenland at an alarming rate, with serious implications not only for the Arctic, but also for the global climate, including Europe. According to a study led by researchers at the University of Bar.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 13th, 2024

Ancient DNA from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) refutes best-selling population collapse theory

Rapa Nui or Te Pito o Te Henua (the navel of the world), also known as Easter Island, is one of the most isolated inhabited places in the world. Located in the Pacific, it lies over 1,900 km east of the closest inhabited Polynesian island and 3,700 k.....»»

Category: topSource:  theglobeandmailRelated NewsSep 11th, 2024

Bunyip birds and brolgas: How can we better protect species important to Indigenous people?

Kamilaroi Country lies in far northwest New South Wales, past Tamworth and crossing over the Queensland border. Here, the bunyip bird (Australasian bittern, Botaurus poiciloptilus), and the brolga (Grus rubicunda or burraalga in Kamilaroi) have been.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 7th, 2024

The Earth"s inner core is an enduring mystery: Here"s how researchers are starting to solve it

Deep beneath our feet, at a staggering depth of over 5,100km, lies Earth's inner core—a solid ball of iron and nickel that plays a crucial role in shaping the conditions we experience on the surface. In fact, without it we'd be unlikely to even exi.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 5th, 2024

Seismic echoes reveal a mysterious "donut" inside Earth"s core

About 2,890 kilometers beneath our feet lies a gigantic ball of liquid metal: our planet's core. Scientists like me use the seismic waves created by earthquakes as a kind of ultrasound to "see" the shape and structure of the core......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 2nd, 2024

Ancient viral genomes preserved in glaciers reveal climate history—and how viruses adapt to climate change

As humans alter the planet's climate and ecosystems, scientists are looking to Earth's history to help predict what may unfold from climate change. To this end, massive ice structures like glaciers serve as nature's freezers, archiving detailed recor.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 1st, 2024

Doughnut-shaped region found inside Earth"s core deepens understanding of planet"s magnetic field

A doughnut-shaped region thousands of kilometers beneath our feet within Earth's liquid core has been discovered by scientists from The Australian National University (ANU), providing new clues about the dynamics of our planet's magnetic field......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsAug 30th, 2024

Deepfakes: Seeing is no longer believing

The threat of deepfakes lies not in the technology itself, but in people’s natural tendency to trust what they see. As a result, deepfakes don’t need to be highly advanced or convincing to effectively spread misinformation and disinformat.....»»

Category: securitySource:  netsecurityRelated NewsAug 29th, 2024

Researchers discover dual epicenters in New Year"s Day Noto earthquake

The first seven months of 2024 have been so eventful, it's easy to forget that the year started off with a magnitude 7.5 earthquake centered beneath Japan's Noto Peninsula on New Year's Day. The earthquake killed more than 280 people and damaged more.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsAug 23rd, 2024