Earth & Environment

by Sara Rimer, Boston University March 21, 2013 (TSR) - As snow and ice cover shrink in northern latitudes, researchers say temperatures and vegetation increasingly resemble those found farther south. The...

The Isabella anomaly — indications of a large mass of cool, dehydrated material about 100 kilometers beneath central California — is in fact a surviving slab of the Farallon oceanic plate. Most of the Farallon plate was driven deep into the Earth’s mantle as the Pacific and North American plates began converging about 100 million years ago, eventually coming together to form the San Andreas fault.

Wild pollinators are just as important, and often more efficient, at pollinating crops than domestic honey bee colonies, but bumble bee colonies are vanishing according to Rutgers University research.

February 21, 2013 (TSR) - Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak have agreed to build a High Speed Rail Link between Kuala Lumpur...

January 30, 2013 (TSR) - Temperatures for the upcoming period (February-April) to average lower than normal across the Nordic regions, UK, and Iberia, with higher-than-normal temperatures expected across other...

by Rob Urie Jan. 21, 2013 (TSR) - By reports, 2012 was the  warmest year in recorded history in the U.S. The last decade was the warmest on record globally. Even for...

January 3, 2012 (TSR) - Cuba will be the venue in June of the World Conference on Wind Power, in which professionals from around the globe will analyze the...

September 29, 2012 (TSR) - For the first time in 22 years, a US President has ordered a foreign company to abandon an American investment. President Obama blocked a...

by Joe Bastardi September 19, 2012 (TSR) - There is no sugar coating the fact that the Arctic sea ice is well below normal. The AGW agenda is jumping all over...

by Susanne Posel September 4, 2012 (TSR) - Under the Arctic ice-sheets are supposed more than 400 billion metric tons of carbon that is assumed to slowly seep out with...

August 16, 2012 (TSR) - Eight years after Congress ordered that Las Vegas be given right-of-way across federal land for a 300-mile-long pipeline from Southern Nevada to the foot of the Great Basin National Park,...

by Maria-José Viñas July 25, 2012 (TSR) - For several days this month, Greenland's surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30...