Our planet’s interior is complex and has many layers. Their formation and structure contain many unsolved mysteries. But new research is providing some clues about how Earth’s internal structure may have…
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Earth science
Displaying 61 - 80 of 82 articles
Injecting fluids into the Earth, whether to recover natural gas or to obtain thermal energy from the planet, can cause earthquakes. New reports that look at American fracking, deep waste-water injection…
New research shows it’s common for swarms of earthquakes to precede a volcano eruption, creating an harmonic tremor resembling…
Clouds caused by air pollution have been overestimated in their ability to to reflect sunlight back into space, thus helping…
The earth’s core spins at a different speed to the outer layer, new research from the Australian National University has…
For centuries, the shallow parts of the earth’s crust have provided us with fuels to burn in our fireplaces, foundries and generators. Now, as we try to break free from our reliance on some of the dirtier…
You’ll know by now that six scientists and a government official have been found guilty of manslaughter (as reported yesterday) and sentenced to six years in prison for how they assessed and communicated…
Significant changes in the motion of Earth’s tectonic plates has been found to occur less frequently than was previously…
The site of a 700,033 year old landslide that followed a volcanic eruption has been discovered on the Canarain island of…
A hole in the Arctic ozone layer grew at unprecedented levels this year, a new study has found, exposing densely populated northern hemisphere countries to potentially harmful levels of UV radiation. The…
We know a lot about how humans evolved. But when it comes to our planet, we’re on shakier ground. Inert (nonreactive) gases, such as helium, neon and argon, trapped inside the mantle (Earth’s thickest…
This week, a committee of six scientists (including Dr Enzo Boschi, formerly president of Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology) and one government official, whose role was to advise…
Exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke nearly doubles the risk of hearing loss in teenagers, according to US university researchers…
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake felt in Melbourne on Tuesday morning is the third largest in a series of 300 quakes that have been gently shaking regional Victoria since January 2009, a seismologist said. The…
Western Victoria and South Australia are overdue for a volcanic eruption, according to researchers from the University of…
The magnitude 9 earthquake that occurred in Japan in March this year caused a 400km long land rupture, releasing centuries of pent up energy caused by two tectonic plates pushing slowly against each other…
Paleontologists think it had the snout of a crocodile, the claws of a bear and a taste for seafood. But what’s most interesting about the discovery of Australia’s first fish-eating dinosaur is its similarities…
Death threats against climate scientists may make researchers reluctant to engage in public debate or even turn research students off the study of climate change altogether, the head of the government…
Governments and communities must take urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions this decade or face enormous social and economic costs in future, according a report by the Australian government’s…
The ash plume produced by the eruption of Iceland’s Grimsvotn volcano has begun to shrink but several European airlines have cancelled flights as a precaution. The Icelandic Meteorological Agency said…
Top contributors
-
Associate Professor of Earthquake Science, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor in Earth Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Emeritus Professor of Mineral Physics, University of Cambridge
-
Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, Wesleyan University
-
Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
-
Senior Research Fellow, Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia
-
Senior Lecturer, University of Wollongong
-
Professor of Public Ethics, Centre for Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University
-
Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus, The University of Melbourne
-
Doctor; Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, UNSW Sydney
-
Deputy Director, Risk Frontiers Natural Hazards Research Centre, Macquarie University
-
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Wollongong
-
Queen Elizabeth II Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne
-
Associate Professor, Connected Waters Initiative, UNSW Sydney
-
CEO, AuScope Limited, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor II at CEED, University of Oslo
