Current Earth Sciences News Today
Water in Earth's mantle - key to survival of oldest continents
Thanks to the plate tectonics that continue to shape our planet's surface, remnants of crust from Earth's formative years are rare, but not impossible to find.
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:51:07 GMT
NASA preps ultimate Sun mission
NASA today said it had picked five experiments that will ride aboard one of its most ambitious space missions to explore the Sun.
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:31:46 GMT
Scientists discover key to Christmas Island's red crab migration
One of the most spectacular migrations on Earth is that of the Christmas Island red crab .
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:48:19 GMT
Most new farmland comes from cutting tropical forest, says Stanford researcher
A new study led by a Stanford researcher shows that more than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came from felling forests, which sends carbon into the atmosphere and drives global warming.
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:56:52 GMT
Deadly Dragon Dinosaur Terrorized Europe
The fossilized hindlimb of Balaur bondoc shows the double-sickle claws of the foot, one of 20 unique features found on the animal, which lived on a Late Cretaceous island in what is now Europe.
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:56:11 GMT
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