Earth Science
Befitting a dynamic Earth, the study of Earth science embraces a multitude of subdisciplines. To understand the complexities of Earth, one must see the patterns of complex interaction th...
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History of Geoscience: Women in the History of Geoscience
Women in science have been conspicuous by their apparent absence throughout history. Yet from Theano, the wife of Pythagoras, in the fifth cen...
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After years cutting of budgets for tracking global warming, President Bush on Monday proposed more than a $1 billion increase over the next five years for launching more and better Earth-observing ...
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A mastodon tooth fossil found in an Ontario, Canada, attic remains a mystery, after a paleontologist concluded it does not belong with a skeleton here that is one of the world's most complete.John ...
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Former Vice President Al Gore said Thursday there was a "temptation" to suppress scientific findings that don't agree with policy and urged scientists to take a more active role in communicating re...
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An earth sciences professor at Ohio State University was named Tuesday to receive a National Medal of Science from the White House, the university announced.Lonnie Thompson, a glaciologist, receive...
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Berlin (dpa) - A German palaeontologist has found the fossilized
claw of a giant scorpion-like creature that crawled the earth almost
400 million years ago in a quarry ...
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When Iranian agents boarded an airplane that made an emergency landing in Tehran, the only Israeli passenger on board feared the worst. Instead, he left with a gift of a wooden music box and an inv...
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Arctic sea ice shrinks to smallest size on record
TOKYO - The area of Arctic sea ice has shrunk to about 5.31
million square kilometers, the smallest-ever size since satellite
o...
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Earth Science
Bush wants to beef up Earth monitoring
