Emissions from coal-fired power plants and possibly other sources in China are seeding the North Pacific Ocean with metals including iron, a nutrient important for marine life, according to new a new study.
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October 27, 2020
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October 21, 2020
A new study suggests that a series of environmental changes in East Africa some 320,000 years ago challenged a previous long-standing way of life for proto-humans, and produced a more adaptable culture.
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October 19, 2020
A new “escape room–like” game for kids and families offers a fun and puzzle-filled way to explore the discoveries taking place at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
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October 18, 2020
In this episode Marie DeNoia Aronsohn talks with Maureen Raymo, the interim director of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, on her vision for the institution.
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October 15, 2020
To measure algal blooms across large regions of the Greenland ice, and understand their effects on melting over time, scientists are turning to space.
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October 14, 2020
He’s working to make the geosciences an area where everyone can thrive.
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October 13, 2020
When you give to Lamont, you help us turn discovery science into solutions science.
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October 08, 2020
The same level of emissions cuts reached during the pandemic would need to be repeated each year to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement by 2030.
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October 05, 2020
One way in which scientists use carbon isotopes found in fossils to identify the sites of ancient rain forests may not work as expected.
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October 02, 2020
Lamont Open House at Home is four days of exciting and informative virtual earth science activities for children, families, educators, and science enthusiasts of all ages.
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September 30, 2020
If human societies don’t sharply curb emissions of greenhouse gases, Greenland’s rate of ice loss this century is likely to greatly outpace that of any century since shortly after the end of the last ice age, a new study concludes.
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September 28, 2020
Join us for fun, informative events, activities, and an awesome interactive game right from home!
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September 28, 2020
A new effort to analyze the ocean’s ability to take up CO2 will be important for predicting the effectiveness of climate change mitigation efforts.
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September 25, 2020
A new project will investigate the relationships between tectonics, climate, and the evolution of humans’ primate ancestors in Kenya’s Turkana Basin.
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September 23, 2020
The warmer it gets, the faster Antarctica will lose ice, and at some point the losses will become irreversible. That is what researchers say in a new cover story in the leading journal Nature, in which they calculate how much warming the Antarctic Ice Sheet can survive.
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