... of reducing climate change. However, new greenhouse gas bookkeeping has revealed that for the European continent this service isn't free after all. These findings were recently published in Nature Geoscience. Researchers from 17 European countries cooperating in the EU-Integrated Project CarboEurope, led by Detlef Schulze, of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany have ...

... that, between the three blogs, we'd be able to scare up some support for K-12 geoscience education. October's over tomorrow, and the geobloggers' challenge has raised more money ... . $8,288. 40 donors. 1218 students reached. Last week, I had to go searching for new geoscience-related projects to support, because so many of the original projects had already been completely funded. I ...

The annual Geosciences conference is taking place in Oamaru this week. Last night about 200 delegates were dining at Burnside Homestead. The owners asked my farmer and a friend to lend a hand. They were happy to oblige and spent most of the day tending two lambs and a leg of venison as they cooked over the fire. They’re getting well practised and have found the secret. They use hard ...

... to engage them with ocean-environment issues and demonstrate the value of geoscience careers to the local community, in a proof-of-concept grant. ... ~25% minority students, but our upper-level geoscience classrooms are significantly whiter. In my third year at Charlotte, ... urban, minority university students a field geoscience experience and then maybe having them partner with high school students to ...

... professor of planetary science. The scientist is also the lead author of a new paper detailing the idea, which appears in the November 29 advance online edition of the respected journal Nature Geoscience. According to data collected by Cassini's Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), the northern lakes on Titan cover more than 20 times the surface that lakes in the southern hemisph... (read more)

... ll deal with that issue in my next post and move on to a Nature Geoscience commentary that has caused quite a buzz here in Barcelona by downgrading the ... the range coming in around 20. The report in Nature Geoscience also shows a sizeable uncertainty, ranging from 6-17 ... their analysis on Southeast Asia is similar to that in the Nature Geoscience, but adding in the rest of the world doubles the impact. ...