Tiny bits of DNA collected from waters off the West Coast allowed scientists to identify more species of marine vertebrates than traditional surveys with trawl nets.
eDNA Expands Species Surveys to Capture a More Complete Picture
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Scientists Find the World’s Oldest Known Forest, Dating Back 386 Million Years
Scientists have discovered what they believe is the world’s oldest known forest — a set of 386-million-year-old fossilized root systems found in an old sandstone quarry in the Catskill Mountains in New York.
Replacing One Gas with Another Helps Efficiently Extract Methane from Permafrost
Scientists from Skoltech and Heriot-Watt University proposed extracting methane by injecting flue gas into permafrost hydrate reservoirs.
New Study Estimates the Global Extent of River Ice Loss as Earth Warms
More than half of Earth’s rivers freeze over every year.
NASA Tracks Tropical Storm Sarai Moving Away from Fiji
NASA’s Terra satellite passed over the Southern Pacific Ocean on Dec. 30 and found that Tropical Storm Sarai continued to move further away from Fiji and toward Tonga.
A Close Look at Thin Ice
On frigid days, water vapor in the air can transform directly into solid ice, depositing a thin layer on surfaces such as a windowpane or car windshield.
