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(Beyond pesticides, March 4, 2021) A new study finds that the use of glyphosate stimulates soil erosion, responsible for the release of the banned toxic pesticide, chlordecone (Kepone), used in banana production. For years, an unknown source of pollution has permanently contaminated the surrounding waters of the islands of the …

ARGYLE, Texas – (COMMERCIAL THREAD) – PureAcre â„¢ launched its first product for row crop farmers. Augere is a soil amendment that increases nutrient uptake when added to liquid fertilizers, such as UAN (Ammonium Urea Nitrate) and starter fertilizers. The agricultural input is fed by the company’s proprietary transporter, OpusMAX, …

Credit: Yakymchuk et al., 2021. Understanding the history of impacts of asteroids on Earth is important, as large impacts play a critical role in the evolution of Earth’s natural systems such as its atmosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere. Unfortunately, there is very little evidence of impacts from the beginning of Earth’s …

Photo credit: USGS via Unsplash. My doctoral research focused on the tectonic history of early plates on Earth. Plate tectonics involves the movement of plates on the earth’s surface. It is believed to be driven by subduction, where one plate plunges into the mantle under another plate. Typically, this involves …

TOKYO, February 11, 2021 – NEC Corporation announced today (February 12 in Tokyo) that the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI) is commissioning a NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA supercomputer. The recently deployed HPC solution is used for high resolution regional climate modeling. The SX-Aurora TSUBASA supercomputer was delivered by NEC Deutschland GmbH in …

PICTURE: Mark Torres with water samples taken from the Icelandic river Efri Haukadalsá in 2016. see After Credit: Photo by Woodward Fisher HOUSTON – (February 12, 2021) – Rice University’s Mark Torres has won the Geochemical Society’s highest honor for early career scientists, the FW Clarke Award, becoming the fourth …

An international team of geoscientists created the first continuous full-plate model with evolving plate boundaries stretching from a billion years ago to the present day. Plate tectonics is a unifying theory of modern geology, explicitly linking evolution and the processes that link the Earth’s mantle, lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. Tectonic …

NASA and three international partners have signed a declaration of intent to advance a possible robotic ice-mapping mission to Mars, which could help identify abundant and accessible ice for future candidate landing sites on the Red Planet. . NASA and three international partners have signed a declaration of intent to …

WASHINGTON – NASA and three international partners have signed a cooperation agreement on a proposed mission to search for ice deposits beneath the surface of Mars, the precursor of human missions there. In a February 3 statement, NASA said it has signed a “declaration of intent” with the Canadian Space …

Australian researchers say they have shown that single-use disposable face masks can be used successfully in recycled concrete aggregate for paving roads. The new road building material is a mix of shredded used face masks and processed construction rubble developed at RMIT University. The mixture meets civil engineering safety standards, …

Mathias Jonas, Secretary General of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), was forced to question the term “hydrospatial” and its place in the language of the hydrographic community. During a roundtable at the Canadian Hydrographic Conference in Quebec in February 2020, I was faced with the question of whether the term …

January 19, 2021: By Ryan Klinker – Office of Communications and Public Engagement Aariana Maynard Aariana Maynard, a junior strategic communications student at Liberty University, has taken another step forward in her journey to launch a career at NASA after an internship with the space agency last summer. The start …

Path of Exile: Echoes of the Atlas has been officially revealed, and it looks like one of the biggest updates to the game yet. Much of the expansion focuses on the free-to-play action-RPG endgame, adding new environments to tackle, new passive skill trees, and an all-powerful ultra-tough boss known as …

Climate change is having a widespread effect on lakes in the northern hemisphere, according to a new study. The study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, examined 122 lakes from 1939 to 2016 in North America, Europe and Asia, and found that ice-free years have become more than three …

When Mariner 4 buzzed to Mars in 1965, it revealed a dry, parched world in stark contrast to the habitable planet dreamed of by decades of science fiction writers. Subsequent sightings revealed the apparent scars of rivers and deltas, and even potential sea shores. The revelations brought hope that the …

If you asked someone with reasonable scientific knowledge how the Earth got its water, they would probably tell you that it came from asteroids – or maybe also comets and planetesimals – that crashed into our planet in its infancy. There are details, nuances, and uncertainties surrounding this idea, but …

© Elen33 Dr Anjuli S. Bamzai, NSF Division Director for Atmospheric and Geospatial Sciences and Ms Elizabeth Zelenski, Staff Member, NSF Deputy Director’s Office for Geosciences, explain research on extreme water events that have profound implications for society Hurricanes, droughts, floods and hailstorms. These disastrous natural events are the flip …

Most of the planet’s glaciers exist in the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau. This area, with thousands of lakes, is also known as the Third Pole (TP). Essentially a huge reservoir of water, the TP provides water and food security to billions of people in Asia. Numerous studies have linked …

On May 20, 2020, in what is emerging as a semi-annual environmental ritual, a super cyclone swept through the Bengal Delta, shattering the dikes of the Sundarbans and submerging large swathes of Calcutta. The winds and tides that accompany these super cyclones have a curious way of highlighting how deeply …

“A lot of people in universities aren’t very good at software engineering,” says Kenny Daniel, co-founder and chief technology officer of cloud computing startup Algorithmia. “I’ve always had more software engineering skills.” That’s, in a nutshell, what makes Seattle-based six-year-old Algorithmia uniquely focused in a world overrun with machine learning …

Each year, the watchmaking industry is celebrated with great fanfare at an award ceremony called the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (or GPHG). It’s more or less akin to the Oscars of watchmaking. For 2020, there are 84 nominees in 14 categories, many of which are somewhat esoteric. So, let’s …

Mushroom mushroom erupts during Castle Bravo nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll in 1954. Image via US Department of Energy / University of Colorado at Boulder. You’ve probably heard of nuclear winter, a hypothesis explored by decades of scientific research. It’s the idea that as a result of firestorms produced …

NASA Selects SSAI for Hydrosphere, Biosphere, and Geophysical Support Services Contract Press release from: Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Posted: Thursday January 30th 2020 NASA selected Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI) for the Hydrosphere, Biosphere and Geophysics (HBG) Support Services contract at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The …

Science Systems and Applications Inc. has been awarded a potential five-year, $ 425 million contract to support scientific research activities within a subdivision of the Goddard Space Flight Center focused on the hydrosphere, biosphere and geophysics. SSAI will work with the Goddard HBG subdivision to apply observations and technology platforms …

NASA Selects SSAI for Hydrosphere, Biosphere and Geophysics Support Services Contract Press Release From: Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Posted: Thursday January 30 2020 NASA selected Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI) for the Hydrosphere, Biosphere and Geophysics (HBG) Support Services Contract at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The HBG …

The ocean is not doing well. The seas, which contain approximately 332,519,000 cubic miles of water, heat, rise, acidify and lose oxygen. And a new comprehensive UN climate special report, released Wednesday, presents an encyclopedic review of how the Earth’s oceans and ice caps have been altered as the world …

Posted on July 2, 2019 through CNRM On May 2, 2019, we did a My Water Journey activity. The purpose of this activity was for us to understand how water moves through the hydrosphere. We wanted to do this project because it would allow us to better understand the project …

Although Tank watches has been around since 2015, my first experience with the brand was at Baselworld 2018, where I was struck by the brand’s all-or-nothing approach to watchmaking. Each timepiece produced by Reservoir is focused on a duel complication setup for time display. The hours are indicated via a …

Source: Water Resources Research The Earth is a dynamic system made up of interconnected components including the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere. Due to the inherent complexity of this system, computer models with tens to hundreds of parameters are needed to unravel the interactions that occur between these domains and …

Topic: Science Class: 5 Objective of the lesson: Understand and demonstrate how the major Earth systems interact with each other Next Generation Scientific Standard: 5-ESS2-1. Develop a model using an example to describe the interactions between the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and / or atmosphere. Materials: Entrance: To say: What is …

Radiocarbon dating is a technique used in various disciplines, including environmental science and archaeology. In the geosciences, the processes by which radiocarbon is produced and cycled in the oceans, atmosphere, and biosphere are widely understood, but there is significant variability in radiocarbon concentrations over space and time. In an article …

Our Earth is truly a “Water World”. What is the hydrosphere? According to the definition as used in physical geography, the hydrosphere is the collective mass of water found on, above, and below the Earth’s surface. It includes both the world’s marine and freshwater resources and encompasses oceans, rivers, lakes, …

Known in China as the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau or Qingzang Plateau, the Tibetan Plateau covers Qinghai Province and the Tibetan Autonomous Region (or Xizang) of China. Dubbed the third pole, the extended plateau region spans more than 5 million square kilometers, with an average elevation of around 4,000 meters above sea …

ESS delves into the complex interplay of Earth’s atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, geosphere, pedosphere, biosphere and magnetosphere. What is SSE? Basic systems science, studied and developed at all educational levels, and fundamental science practices have found application in Earth System Science (ESS). The interactions between water, ice, rock, living things and …

See this moving wind map here. It’s really cool ! Earth Science Week is an event organized by the American Geosciences Institute to promote understanding and stewardship of the Earth. The theme of this year’s event is “Visualizing Earth Systems”. The event runs from October 11-17, 2015. There are many …