erosion
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Evolving Landscape Added Fuel to Gobi Desert’s High-Speed Winds
A new study uncovers a previously undocumented relationship between erosion and wind speed.
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Unlocking Earth’s Climate Past: A New Tracer Identifies Weathering Intensity Over Time
New method helps determine how quickly silicates wear down over time, which is key to understanding natural processes that remove CO2 from air.
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The Journey to Antarctica and a Week in McMurdo Station
After bad weather and a busy week of packing and preparation, the team is finally ready to strike out on its own in the coldest, driest, and windiest place on the planet.
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Fountain of Youth Underlies Antarctic Mountains
New Study Explains Why Peaks Buried in Ice Look So Young
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Why Soil Matters
Soil is the source of all life. Yet “we know more about soils of Mars than about soils of Africa,” says Pedro Sanchez, director of the Earth Institute’s Tropical Agriculture and the Rural Environment Program. To remedy this situation, the Earth Institute is taking part in an ambitious undertaking to map the world’s soils.
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Southern Louisiana’s Vanishing Act
Louisiana’s wetlands — the largest system in the United States — are shrinking at an alarming rate.
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What’s in an Isotope? Quite a Lot
A new technique developed by researchers at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory now allows scientists to use an isotope of manganese not abundant on Earth to understand the record of millions of years of changes to the Earth’s surface. According to the study’s lead scientists, the new technique relies on measuring extremely small amounts of the…
