Watch the Virginia Earthquake Ripple Across America
This amazing video shows the Virginia earthquake ripple west across the United States, thanks to an array of detectors that are part of the USArray/EarthScope facility.
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Greenland Glaciers Shrink Fast and Grow Fast
According to geologists at the University at Buffalo, marine-calving glaciers have the ability to not only shrink rapidly during periods of global warming, but to grow as quickly during periods of global cooling.
Moon Contains Earth-like Levels of Water
The moon contains a lot more water than scientists had originally predicted. This, according to new research that took its data from the “orange soil” that astronaut Harrison Schmitt of Apollo 17 brought home to Earth.
Species Live Where There is Rain
A new study has found that during the time of Pangaea the supercontinent, animals tended to congregate where there was rain, this, despite the fact that there was many times more space for them to spread out and no landmarks to prevent them from travelling.
