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The graphite found in your favorite pencil could have instead been the diamond your mother always wears. What made the ...
Ever since the first dinosaur fossils were identified in the 19th century, scientists have been trying to figure out why ...
The big sky country of the western North America is a world-renowned dinosaur playground. Household-name dinosaurs like ...
Scientists have warned that the planet crossed the global boundary for ocean acidification around the year 2020, according to a new study.
A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than ...
GLAH08 Level-2 planetary boundary layer (PBL) and elevated aerosol layer heights data contains PBL heights, ground detection heights, and top and bottom heights of elevated aerosols from -1.5 km to 20 ...
Atmospheric aerosol loading hasn’t yet crossed its planetary boundary. Aerosol pollution can come from vehicles, factories and power plants, many of the same sources of climate change.
FARGO — There is a layer of air from the ground up to a few hundred feet called the planetary boundary layer. The boundary layer is heated by the convection of heat from the ground after the ...
The Earth is dangerously close to breaching its seventh planetary boundary, with ocean acidification approaching a critical threshold, according to a new report from the Potsdam Institute for ...
The height of the planetary boundary layer varies depending on the land below, but over Japan, it is between 1,000 and 3,000 meters (3,281 to 9,843 feet) above sea level, so sampling was conducted ...
It suggests this layer is up to 18 kilometers (11 miles) thick. The finding represents a significant advance in understanding planetary differentiation processes – how planets develop distinct ...
In this Q&A, we spoke with co-author Denise Breitburg, a scientist emerita at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, on why ocean oxygen should become the 10th planetary boundary.