Drilling firm Lapindo Brantas has denied that one of its gas exploration well was the trigger for the Lusi mud volcano, which killed 13 people and displaced thirty thousand in East Java, Indonesia on…

Depicting a cause-and-effect scenario that spans thousands of miles, scientists report in Geophysical Research Letters that ocean waves originating along the Pacific coasts of North and South America…

Writing in the journal Radiocarbon, researchers report the development of a new calibration curve that could answer key questions about human evolution and climate change. The new calibration curve,…

University of Miami geologists have analyzed images based on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) observations taken before and after Haiti's devastating  January 12 earthquake. The images reveal…

When we experience disasters like the earthquake in Haiti January 2010, we naturally ask the questions: Could we have known (early warning)? Could we have been prepared (mitigation plans)? Haiti on…

When we experience disasters like the earthquake in Haiti January 2010, we naturally ask the  questions: Could we have known (early warning)? Could we have been prepared (mitigation plans)?…

The Haiti Earthquake: Science, Early warning and mitigation When we experience disasters like the earthquake in Haiti February 2010, we naturally ask the questions: Could we have known (early…

Researchers analyzing recent data from the SPOT 5 and ASTER satellites say that previous studies have largely overestimated mass loss from Alaskan glaciers over the past 40 years. Writing in a recent…

Haiti Event Supersite Established The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) has set up a website page bringing together a welter of geological facts about the recent earthquake in Haiti, together with…

Post Glacial Eustatic Sea Level Rise Was The Danube The Location Of The Noah's Ark Flood? asks a scientificblogging.com news item. Was it the location of Noah's flood?  Doubtful, but it was the…