A new Griffith University study has found that humpback whales will use sandy, shallow bay areas…
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Ridgecrest faults increasingly sensitive to solid Earth tides before earthquakes
Faults in the Ridgecrest, California area were very sensitive to solid earth tidal stresses in the…
Floods of nutrients from fertilisers and wastewater trash our rivers. Could offsetting help?
The rivers running through the hearts of Australia’s major cities and towns are often carrying heavy…
When an earthquake strikes, how do Mexico city hospitals respond?
Staff in public and private hospitals in Mexico City are likely to follow well-established and reinforced…
Beaver ponds with deeper sediments store more nitrogen, simple mapping reveals
Beaver ponds contain nitrogen, an essential nutrient that can become a pollutant when too much is…
Puerto Rico tsunami deposit could have come from pre-Columbian megathrust earthquake
Tsunami deposits identified in a coastal mangrove pond in Northwest Puerto Rico could have come from…
New research on megafire smoke plumes clarifies what they contain, how they move and their potential impacts
In recent years, large, intense wildfires, known as megafires, have increasingly caused severe damage to forests,…
Oldest US agricultural plots go digital: 130+ years of data now online
In 1876, when University of Illinois professor Manly Miles established the Morrow Plots, he couldn’t have…
Extraction influences seismicity at some hydraulic fracturing sites in Ohio
A decade’s worth of research at oil and gas operations in the central and eastern United…
ChatGPT is still no match for humans when it comes to accounting
Last month, OpenAI launched its newest AI chatbot product, GPT-4. According to the folks at OpenAI,…