News about Water on Earth (the Hydrosphere)
03/11/11 Massive 9.0 Magnitude Earthquake and Tsunami Hit Japan
08/19/10 Marine Scientists, Students Find Widespread Floating Plastic Debris in North Atlantic Ocean
08/18/10 New Computer Model Advances Climate Change Research
08/18/10 Deadly Tonga Earthquake Revealed as Three Big Quakes
07/17/10 Gulf Oil Spill: Mississippi River Hydrology May Help Reduce Oil Onshore
07/08/10 New Findings Indicate Sediment Composition Affected the Strength of Sumatran Earthquake
06/17/10 Caribbean Coral Reef Protection Efforts Miss the Mark
05/16/10 Unprecedented Warming in East Africa's Lake Tanganyika
05/13/10 Silver Tells a Story of Early Earth: Water Here Since Planet's Very Early Days
04/30/10 Pollution Speeds up Snow Melt in Europe and Asia
04/29/10 Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico
04/23/10 Even in the Desert, Plants Feel the Heat of Global Warming
04/22/10 Scientists Study "Glaciovolcanoes," Mountains of Fire and Ice
04/02/10 Dust-on-Snow: On Spring Winds, Something Wicked Thus Way Comes
03/29/10 Climate Helped Bring Angkor to Its Knees
03/04/10 Methane Releases from Arctic Shelf May Be Much Larger and Faster Than Anticipated
03/04/10 Scientists Find Signs of “Snowball Earth” Amidst Early Animal Evolution
02/25/10 More than One: Long-Reining Microbe Controlling Ocean Nitrogen Shares the Throne
02/01/10 Evolution Impacts Environment, Study Finds
01/10/10 Global Ice Age Climate Patterns Influenced by Bering Strait
11/13/09 Growth Spurt in Tree Rings Prompts Questions About Climate Change
10/20/09 Changing the Mississippi River Could Lead to New Land near New Orleans
09/28/09 Living, Meandering River Constructed
09/09/09 Global Warming Causes Outbreak of Rare Algae in Caribbean Corals
08/27/09 Connections among Solar Cycle, Stratosphere and Ocean Discovered
06/11/09 Global Warming Can Impact Monsoons and Lower Crop Production
06/02/09 The Abyss: Deepest Part of the Oceans No Longer Hidden
05/27/09 Sea-level Rise May Pose Greatest Threat to Northeast U.S., Canada
04/29/09 Glacial Advances
04/21/09 As World Warms, Water Levels Dropping in Major Rivers
03/16/09 Warmer Temperatures are Changing Antarctic Phytoplankton
02/23/09 Scientists to Investigate Role of Equatorial Pacific Ocean in Global Climate System
02/05/09 Microbe Survives in Ocean’s Deepest Realm, Thanks to Genetic Adaptations
02/03/09 Early Whales Gave Birth on Land
01/30/09 "Hot Spot" for Toxic Algal Blooms Discovered off Washington Coast
01/07/09 Microscopic Fossils Offer Big Clues to Earth's Climate
12/12/08 New Online Report on Massive Jellyfish Swarms Released
11/09/08 Storms Shaped the Himalayan Mountains
11/07/08 Ecologists Use Oceanographic Data to Predict Future Climate Change
10/15/08 Details of Evolutionary Transition from Fish to Land Animals Revealed
10/08/08 Fish Adapting to a Changing World
10/03/08 Gas From the Past Gives Scientists New Insights into Climate and the Oceans
08/08/08 Water Refineries?
07/29/08 Atlantic Coral Reefs Are No Match for This Lion
07/22/08 Scientists Test System to Forecast Flash Floods along Colorado's Front Range
07/21/08 Outflow from World's Largest River – The Amazon – Powers Atlantic Ocean Carbon “Sink”
07/17/08 Scientists Discover Fish that Talk
07/03/08 How Many Species Have There Been on Earth?
06/17/08 The Mystery of Mass Extinction is No Longer Murky
06/12/08 If a Tree Falls in the Forest, and No One Is Around to Hear It, Does Climate Change?
06/05/08 Study of Glacial Earthquakes Shakes Up Idea of How Ice Streams Move
05/08/08 Ancient Beachcombers May Have Traveled Slowly
04/30/08 Global Warming Affects World's Largest Freshwater Lake
04/18/08 Earth Day 2008
02/07/08 Pacific Coral Reefs May Not Get Into Hot Water
12/14/07 Acid Rain Has Disproportionate Impact on Near-Shore Ocean Waters
12/10/07 Greenland’s Ice Is Melting Faster
10/31/07 Reef Health Depends on Algae Chomping Fish
02/01/07 IPCC 4th Assessment Report Summary Due
10/12/05 First Photos Taken of a Live Giant Squid
09/22/05 Model Predicts Hurricane Rita's Path
09/16/05 The 2005 Hurricane Season Is Churning the Atlantic
01/05/05 Earthquake in the Indian Ocean Causes a Massive Tsunami
10/10/03 Researchers Locate Special Penguin Habitats!
06/04/03 Peeking at Coral Reefs From Space
03/05/03 Snow Blankets the
Eastern United States!
02/21/03 Super Scientists
Study Snow!
01/30/03 Robots Watch out
for Poisonous Plankton!
01/17/03 ICESat satellite
launched
12/20/02 Hope for the
World’s Coral Reefs?
11/03/02 The Search for Life
on...Earth?
10/04/02 Sea snakes
search for home!
08/28/02 Global Warming
Endangers an Alaskan Eskimo Village
07/29/02 Mysterious Giant
Squid Found on Tasmanian Beach
07/11/02 Old Rocks Give
New Clues about Ancient Earth!
06/28/02 Coral killer
on the loose: Are coral reefs dying because of our waste?
02/19/02 Explore the Wetlands
of Brazil!
