by Asmawisham | Aug 8, 2017 | Academic, Media
Release Date: August 8, 2017 After the next significant earthquake, many sources will be disseminating information from a variety of accounts, tools and services. This hour-long, web-based training for the media will cover the most authoritative source: the U.S....
by Asmawisham | Aug 7, 2017 | Academic, Media
Release Date: August 7, 2017 True or False: Lightning that takes place during a volcanic eruption is the same as lightning that occurs during a thunderstorm? Scroll down to see the answer Plume lightning during the volcanic eruption in Eyjafjallajokull glacier in...
by Asmawisham | Aug 3, 2017 | Academic, Media
Release Date: August 3, 2017 The Dnieper-Donets Basin of Ukraine could contain an estimated 4.3 billion tons of undiscovered potassium-bearing salt according to a recent U.S. Geological Survey assessment. In addition, previous estimates show that the nearby Pripyat...
by Asmawisham | Aug 1, 2017 | Academic, Media
Release Date: August 1, 2017 The cold-loving fungus (Pseudogymnoascus destructans, or Pd) that causes white-nose syndrome, a disease that has killed millions of North American bats during hibernation, could also spread in summer months. Bats and humans visiting...
by Asmawisham | Jul 31, 2017 | Academic, Media
Release Date: July 31, 2017 Subsurface magma intrusions (sills), rather than surface lava flows, may have triggered the Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event approximately 252 million years ago. While mass extinction events in Earth’s history have long been...
by Asmawisham | Jul 31, 2017 | Academic, Media
Release Date: July 31, 2017The growing database contains more than three billion public land and marine acres managed by nearly 15,100 agencies and nongovernmental organizations, covering 200,000 separate parks and protected areas. PAD-US is a product of Core Science...