News
News
Study Finds Fracking May Affect Air Quality Also
A new study published by scientists at the University of Oregon and University of CIncinnati concludes that people living and working proximate to fracking actively may well be exposed to certain poll...
Read More
Video: Do Changes in Groundwater Levels Affect Streamflow?
In the Buffalo National River, somebody can hear the running water and the next minute the water is gone! In the Ozarks, there are streams that disappear and reappear randomly! The ultimate...
Read More
Video: Minor tremors from San Andreas Fault closely monitored by UC Berkeley
The increase in the frequency of low intensity tremors, originating from the San Andreas Fault, about 10 hours after the magnitude 6 Napa earthquake last August, and an observed increase in two other...
Read More
Salty Aquifer Discovered Under Antarctic Surface
Researchers from the National Science Foundation (NSF) have gathered evidence for the existence of a salty aquifer beneath Antarctica's ice-free McMurdo Dry Valleys, by using an airborne electromagnet...
Read More
Young Scientist Makes Breakthrough in Solar Energy Storage
Anders Bo Skov, a student at the University of Copenhagen, has achieved a breakthrough in solar energy storage with the aid of his supervisor, Mogens Brondsted Nielsen. Together they have published th...
Read More
USGS report correlates earthquake triggering to human activity
A newly released report from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has for the first time attempted to establish a connection between human activities such as fracking with earthquake occurrence. Even tho...
Read More
Penn State Researchers Develop New Technique for Identifying Shale-drilling Additives in Drinking Water
Researchers at Penn State University have developed a new analytical technique for identifying common drilling substances in drinking water. Using the technique, the scientists reported contamination...
Read More
Life After Dam Removal, Rivers Respond Quickly
A study performed by the U.S. Geological survey and published in Science reveals that rivers respond quickly to dam removal. In the past forty years, more than 1000 dams have been removed from US rive...
Read More
Airport melt water responsible for soil contamination, new study finds
A new study, conducted from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany, indicates that melt waters in airports are responsible for soil contamination. Various de-icing fluids used in airpo...
Read More
Ethiopia's geothermal energy monitored and mapped
Aluto volcano, Ethiopia's main source of geothermal energy is in the center of attention, for a group of scientists from U.K. and Ethiopia, who using advanced monitoring techniques, are exploring the...
Read More