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Two New Lakes Found Beneath Antarctic Ice Sheet
Ancient water bodies may contain ecosystems adapted to life beneath more than two miles of ice
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Earth Institute Researchers Present Their Work at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
Wide array of topics includes climate change, social consequences of natural disasters
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Soviet Union Conducted 130 Nuclear Tests in Remote Arctic Location, Study Says
The Soviet Union conducted 130 underwater, atmospheric and underground nuclear tests in a remote archipelago above the Arctic Circle over a period of 35 years, according to a comprehensive study done by scientists at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the U.S. Geological Survey. Some of these tests involved multiple explosions. In all, 224 nuclear devices were…
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Deep Magmatic Plumbing of Mid-Ocean Ridges Revealed
New images suggest that the Earth’s lower oceanic crust is generated from multiple magma sources
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Study Reconciles Long-Standing Contradiction of Deep-Earth Dynamics
New databases give researchers a look into processes inside the Earth’s mantle
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Scientists Confirm Earth’s Inner Core Rotating Faster Than Rest of Planet
Scientists at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have ended a nine-year debate over whether the Earth’s inner core is undergoing changes that can be detected on a human timescale. Their work, which appears in the August 26 issue of the journal Science, measured differences in the time it…
