Why the East Coast Earthquake Covered So Much Ground
[ad_1] Friday morning at around 10:30 local time, a magnitude 4.8 earthquake popped three miles below Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. Though nowhere near the magnitude of the West Coast’s monster…
These Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged
[ad_1] On April 12, 2019, Boston University finally fired David Marchant for sexually harassing Willenbring. (The university said it could not corroborate her claims of physical and psychological abuse.) Marchant…
The World’s Essential Aquifers Are in Deep Trouble
[ad_1] The water that pours out of your tap, or that’s unnecessarily packaged in a single-use bottle, or that helped grow the produce in your fridge—all of it may well…
Why Humans Are Putting a Bunch of ‘Coal’ and ‘Oil’ Back in the Ground
[ad_1] In addition to burying solid carbon or sprinkling it on fields, researchers are also turning waste biomass into liquid carbon—oil, essentially, that they pump back into the ground instead…
Critical Infrastructure Is Sinking Along the US East Coast
[ad_1] Below is New York’s JFK Airport—notice the red hotspots of high subsidence against the teal of more mild elevation change. The airport’s average subsidence rate is 1.7 millimeters a…