Dinosaurs may not have seen the Grand Canyon after all
Science News, June 2015Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex never peered over the Grand Canyon’s steep slopes, new research suggests.
Many of Earth’s groundwater basins run deficits
Science News, June 2015Climate and human consumption are parching Earth’s groundwater basins at an alarming rate, a new study finds. Of Earth’s 37 biggest groundwater basins, 21 now lose more water annually than they take in, researchers report in a paper to be published in Water Resources Research.
Adapted for Science News for Students.
Most of Earth’s impact craters await discovery
Science News, June 2015Earth’s surface could hide some big blemishes. More than 90 impact craters larger than a kilometer across await discovery, researchers estimate in the Sept. 1 Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Fluid injection triggers earthquakes indirectly, study finds
Science News, June 2015The first up-close look at artificially triggered tremors suggests seismicity caused by human activities starts slow before shaking things up. The finding could help scientists better understand, and possibly even stem, the rising rate of earthquakes near sites where unwanted fluids, such as gunky water left over from fracking, are injected underground.
Greenhouse effect from fossil fuels felt almost immediately
Science News, June 2015The planet quickly feels the burn from the lasting effects of fossil fuel combustion, new research shows.
Interactive infographic comparing old and new climate data analyses created by NOAA. The new analyses removed the so-called post-1998 "warming hiatus." Created in Tableau.
Global warming ‘hiatus’ just an artifact, study finds
Science News, June 2015One of the biggest mysteries of modern climate science may never have really existed, updated climate analyses suggest.
Includes an interactive graph I made in Tableau comparing the new and old climate data analyses.
Eruptions create new islands in the Red Sea
Science News, June 2015Update your maps: Two new islands have popped up in the strip of ocean between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
Titanic typhoons are in the forecast
Science News, May 2015Warming waters will boost the destructiveness of future typhoons, new research predicts.
Adapted for Science News for Students.
Everest could lose most of its ice by 2100
Science News, May 2015Glaciers around the tallest mountain in the world may reach a historic new low relatively soon.