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Press Release: All polar bears across the Arctic face shorter sea ice season
New research published in The Cryosphere finds a trend toward earlier sea ice melt in the spring and later ice growth in the autumn across all 19 polar bear populations, which can negatively impact the feeding and breeding capabilities of the bears. [ Read more ]
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News from the EGU: Italy earthquake, new papers (August 2016)
The August 2016 edition of the EGU email newsletter, the monthly information service for Union members, is now available. [ Read more ]
News from the EGU: elections, EGU17 call for sessions (July 2016)
The July 2016 edition of the EGU email newsletter, the monthly information service for Union members, is now available. [ Read more ]
Press Release: Fire clues in cave dripwater – researchers find wildfire signatures in cave formations for the first time
When mineral-rich water drips from a cave’s ceiling over centuries and millennia, it forms rocky cones that hold clues to the Earth’s past climate. Now, researchers in Australia and the UK have found that these structures can also help trace past wildfires that burned above the cave. Their research is published today in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. [ Read more ]
EGU Autumn 2016 elections: call for candidates
The EGU Election Autumn 2016 for the the Treasurer and Division Presidents will take place between 1 and 30 November. You are kindly asked to propose a candidate to any of these vacancies by 15 September 2016. You are welcome and encouraged to nominate yourself. [ Read more ]
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Quantifying ice loss in the eastern Himalayas since 1974 using declassified spy satellite imagery
Here we utilize declassified spy satellite imagery to quantify ice volume loss of glaciers in the eastern Himalayas over approximately the last three decades. Clean-ice and debris-covered glaciers show similar magnitudes of ice loss, while calving glaciers are contributing a disproportionately large amount to total ice loss. Results highlight important physical processes affecting the ice mass budget and associated water resources in the Himalayas. [ Read more ]
Oxidation of sulfides and rapid weathering in recent landslides
Rapid dissolution of bedrock and regolith mobilised by landslides can be an important control on rates of overall chemical weathering in mountain ranges. In this study we analysed a number of landslides and rivers in Taiwan to better understand why this occurs. We find that sulfuric acid resulting from rapid oxidation of highly reactive sulfides in landslide deposits drives the intense weathering and can set catchment-scale solute budgets. This could be a CO2source in fast-eroding mountains. [ Read more ]
Muographic data analysis method for medium-sized rock overburden inspections
A paper focusing on the application of elementary particle physics to the measurements of rock overburden density structures that might be directly applicable to natural resources and undiscovered cave explorations, and even to searching for hidden chambers in historic architectural structures. [ Read more ]
Latest Posts from EGU Blogs
- What was going on this week in the world of the ECSeimologists?, posted 1 day ago on Seismology
- GeoTalk: Investigating the transport of plastic pollution in the oceans, posted 3 days ago on GeoLog – EGU official blog
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- 4th GfGD Annual Conference – Geology and the SDGs (Registration Open), posted 4 days ago on Geology for Global Development
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