If you are a pre-college student you can start preparing for a career in Earth science by enrolling in the college preparation program and doing well in all of your courses. Science courses are especially important but math, writing, and other disciplines are also used by Earth scientists during every working day. Read more…

BP finally choked off the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday – 85 days and up to 184 million gallons after the crisis unfolded – then began a tense 48 hours of watching to see whether the capped-off well would hold or blow a new leak. to the relief of millions of people along the Gulf Coast, the big, Read more…

It’s 2030 and the population of the four-county region has almost doubled from today’s just under five million people to nine million. In Miami-Dade the urban development boundary has expanded like the waistline of a diet-program dropout.Developers, lobbyists, and builders are among the many who have benefited from the growth. But not everyone is happy. Read more…

Six hundred feet below the Antarctic ice, where no light can be found, NASA scientists made a startling discovery a swimming shrimp-like creature that could challenge the idea of where and how forms of life can survive. Read more…

To conceive and build a groundwater model (e.g., for water resources), one must go through a geological model; both models are complex in nature and require experts in each domain with very specific knowledge. In general, the hydrogeologist begins building of the groundwater model from a rough idea of groundwater flows, backwards into describing the “reservoir”; the geologist, on the other hand, begins building of the geological model from the knowledge of the geology of the region under study, forwards into proposing a “reservoir”. Read more…

"The surface can tell us a lot about what’s happening inside the Moon, but until now mapping has been very limited," Shum said. "For instance, with this new high-resolution map, we can confirm that there is very little water on the Moon today, even deep in the interior. Read more…

TOKYO-Scientists are in an unprecedented project to revive Japan’s largest coral reef by planting thousands of baby corals growing on tiny ceramic beds.

Corals in Sekisei Lagoon stretching between the Okinawan islands of Ishigaki and Iriomote Read more…

LiveScience.com internet sitesinin haberine göre, Entegre Okyanus Delme Programı(EODP) kapsamında çalışmalarını sürdüren uzmanlar, önemli bir aÅŸama kaydetti. Read more…

Meridianiite, MgSO₄·11H₂O, was recently discovered on the surface of a frozen pond in central British Columbia, Canada. Meridianiite is stable below 2 °C. Above 2 °C, it melts incongruently to a slurry of epsomite (MgSO₄·7H₂O) and water. Magnesium sulfate minerals are thought to exist in the soils at Gusev crater and elsewhere on the Martian surface. Read more…

Uranium is a naturally occurring metal, which is widespread in nature. It is present in the ocean and certain types of soils and rocks, especially granite. Natural uranium is also released into the environment from various activities such as the use of phosphate fertilisers, mining, and combustion from coal and other fuels.

Uranium levels are naturally high in many areas in the UK, particularly where radon levels are high and the underlying rock is predominantly granite. Natural uranium decays to release radon gas into the environment. In other parts of the world, especially in certain areas of the USA and Canada, natural uranium levels in water are particularly high due to the sedimentary rocks. Read more…