Dinosaur-age landscapes lurk in Southern Hemisphere
Ancient plateaus, armored against erosion by impermeable minerals, hold clues to Earth's deep history
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NASA overcomes military’s GPS tweaks to peer inside hurricanes
Data from CYGNSS satellites could sharpen storm forecasts -
Ship spies largest underwater eruption ever
French research cruise detects massive newborn volcano on Indian Ocean floor -
Two-thirds of the world’s longest rivers no longer run free
Authors of new assessment hope it will lead to better river management -
This global map of manure could help save farming as we know it
Plotting livestock poop could kick-start smarter phosphorus use -
Into the overworld: modified spy plane to see whether towering storms pose new threat to ozone layer
New NASA mission will probe the stratosphere over central United States -
These ocean floats can hear earthquakes, revealing mysterious structures deep inside Earth
MERMAIDs offer a cheap way to “x-ray” Earth from remote places -
Newly drilled sediment cores could reveal how fast the Antarctic ice sheet will melt
First deep cores from the Amundsen Sea floor record how the West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated millions of years ago -
Could computers provide short-term warnings of the world’s worst floods?
Better global terrain data are needed to improve forecasts in developing countries -
Volcanic lightning may be partially fed by Earth’s natural radioactivity
Decay of radioactive atoms could boost electrical charges in eruption plumes -
Lawmakers seek delay of radio spectrum auction for next-gen cell service, saying 5G plans could hurt weather satellite data
Potential radio interference could hamper future hurricane tracking -
Waterfall-chasing scientists uncover rare, self-forming cascades
New study could explain origins of mysterious waterfalls on Earth—and Mars -
Rain is melting Greenland’s ice, even in winter, raising fears about sea level rise
Earth’s warming climate is causing clouds to drop rain instead of snow, study says -
Earth scientists plan to meld massive databases into a ‘geological Google’
China is backing an international effort to make a one-stop data shop -
Did volcanic eruptions help kill off the dinosaurs?
Twin studies find massive lava flows occurred around the time of a cataclysmic asteroid impact -
Radar reveals a second potential impact crater under Greenland’s ice
If confirmed, it would be even larger than Hiawatha crater
