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For the first time in nearly 50 years, officials are debating turning off the tap for part of Niagara Falls. Officials have proposed drying out two of the three waterfalls that make up Niagara Falls — American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls — so that workers can repair the aging pedestrian bridges that span the rapids along the river that feeds the falls. The proposed "dewatering" could yield unprecedented insights into the rock-cutting process that is hidden beneath the flow of millions of gallons of water.
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Reporting Climate Science
A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth's continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, temporarily slowing the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent.
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Phys.org
The Aleutian Islands, a chain of 14 large volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones that belong to both the United States and Russia, occupy an area of more than 6,800 square miles and extend approximately 1,200 miles westward from the Alaska Peninsula toward the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. Last fall, an expedition spearheaded by GeoPRISMS organized a group of scientists to deploy several multidisciplinary projects including seismic instruments, sample tephras and volcanic gases, and repair and restore monitoring stations for the Alaska Volcano Observatory on seven active volcanoes in 19 days on the Aleutian Islands.
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ABC News
A new catalogue of the Earth's rarest minerals contains some that are found in such small quantities that the entire supply would be smaller than a sugar cube, scientists say. Of the 2,550 minerals listed, many contain fundamental information about the formation of the Earth. Researchers said that rare minerals can not only help geologists understand the history of Earth, but may provide keys to the origins of life.
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego are now exploring the use of acoustic recording technology to better understand and monitor methane emission sounds from the seafloor. Marine seeps produce sound as a result of gas escaping from vents in the seabed, pinching off into bubbles. The tone and sound levels of these emissions are related to bubble size, bubble plume density and distance to the bubble plumes, providing important information about temporal variations of underwater methane release.
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Phys.org
It may be even trickier to predict the strength of El Niño weather patterns than previously thought, according to a study by Yale researchers. A new variable — intraseasonal wind bursts — may play an unexpected role in the way El Niño systems develop, the researchers say. The finding has implications for short-term, interannual atmospheric changes that bring global consequences.
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Eyewitness News
Expert geologists have decided it's too dangerous to send rescue teams back underground after a meeting with Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union leaders and Lily Mine management. On Feb. 15 there were hopes that geologists would clear the way for rescue operations to resume in a bid to save three workers who have been trapped 80 meters underground for 11 days.
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The Associated Press via Arizona Daily Star
The valley surrounding a southern Arizona city is sinking.
Geologists determined the valley around Eloy is 20 feet lower than it was 50 years ago, and earth fissures are likely to blame. Earth fissures are believed to be created by quickly depleting groundwater causing land to cave in. Six new Arizona Geological Survey maps show these hazards in southern Arizona, including study areas east of Picacho Peak. Dozens of earth fissures have been reported in the area.
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Tech Times
The state of Michigan is considered aseismic because it doesn't typically experience earthquakes. So when a strange, one-magnitude quake left a large crack on Michigan's Menominee Forest in 2010, residents and scientists were all baffled. About six years later, geologists believe they have now identified what the geological event was inside the Menominee Forest. In a new study, a team from Michigan Technological University attempted to find out how the mysterious crack possibly formed.
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Sputnik News
Russia has been seeking the recognition of an expanded resource-rich outer limit of the continental shelf (OLCS) since 2001, but has been turned down due to lack of geological evidence that the territory is a natural continuation of Russia's shelf. Russia is one of the five Arctic nations — alongside the United States, Canada, Norway and Denmark — that have been laying claims to hydrocarbon deposits located in its offshore Arctic border areas.
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The Times of India
A team of Indo-German geologists and palaeontologists working in Lodai village, some 25 kilometers from Bhuj town of Kutch, in Western India, are on to something big as they have found some more fossils of dinosaur including skull, jaws and teeth.
Last month, they had found fossils believed to be that of a 135-million-year old herbivorous dinosaur in possibly the oldest such fossil found this century.
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