All Articles Tagged As: oil

New World post-pandemic reforestation helped start Little Ice Age (12/19/2008)

The power of viruses is well documented in human history. Swarms of little viral Davids have repeatedly laid low the great Goliaths of human civilization, most famously in the devastating pandemics that swept the New World during European conquest and settlement.In recent years, there has been growing evidence to suggest that the effect of the pandemics in the Americas wasn't confined to killing indigenous peoples. Global climate appears to have been altered as well. ...> Full Article

Acid soils in Slovakia tell somber tale (11/19/2008)

Increasing levels of nitrogen deposition associated with industry and agriculture can drive soils toward a toxic level of acidification ...> Full Article

Scientists Map Soils on an Extinct American Volcano (10/21/2008)

Thousands of years after the lava cooled, soil scientists conduct sophisticated mapping of the resulting soil landscape. ...> Full Article

Deep sea giants hold clues to fossil fuels (8/9/2008)

As fuel prices continue to rise, researchers have shown how giant channels on the ocean floor could point the way to finding new oil and gas reserves. ...> Full Article

The greatest story of man and permafrost (7/21/2008)

Pipeline has delivered more than 16 billion barrels of oil since ...> Full Article

Undersea volcanoes triggered marine extinction, says study (7/20/2008)

Undersea volcanic activity triggered a mass extinction of marine life and buried a thick mat of organic matter on the sea floor about 93 million years ago, which became a major source of oil ...> Full Article

Cutting edge research to uncover oil fields which have lain untapped for 40 million years (6/12/2008)

New help unearthing major potential new oil fields which have lain undiscovered and untapped for over 40 million years. ...> Full Article

First nanoscale image of soil reveals an 'incredible' variety (5/7/2008)

Knowing the structure and detailed composition of soil carbon could provide a better understanding of the chemical processes that cycle organic matter in soil. ...> Full Article

Mapping Earth's soil moisture (5/1/2008)

Science team designing a NASA satellite mission to collect global soil moisture measurements and other data seen as key to improving weather, flood and drought forecasts and predictions of agricultural productivity and climate change. ...> Full Article

Are existing large-scale simulations of water dynamics wrong? (3/13/2008)

Researchers find that a much smaller spatial resolution should be used for modeling soil water ...> Full Article

Large Source of Nitrate, a Nutrient and Potential Water Contaminant, Found in Near-Surface Desert Soils (3/3/2008)

Disruption of desert soil surface could result in wind erosion of nitrate-rich soil ...> Full Article

On the hunt for 'black gold' (2/19/2008)

The surprise discovery of university-owned rights to oil and natural gas in southern Alberta is leading to first-hand lessons in the energy sector for students and researchers who have begun exploring the potential of the reserves using some of the latest technology in exploration geology. ...> Full Article

Satellite map will aid in managing Alberta's vital resources (2/16/2008)

Every nook and cranny of the province, from its forests to its foothills, has for the first time been recorded on a unique map by the University of Alberta. ...> Full Article

University Lands $21.2M Software Grant (1/17/2008)

Deal Will Help Students, Researchers in Key Energy Disciplines ...> Full Article

Microbes in oil reservoirs (12/16/2007)

Heavy oil discovery could revolutionize oil sands production ...> Full Article

New Antarctica research season kicks off (12/3/2007)

The approach of winter in the northern hemisphere means that summer is coming to Antarctica - still bitterly cold, but just warm enough to let scientists make progress on ongoing studies. ...> Full Article

Planting carbon deep in the earth - rather than the greenhouse (12/2/2007)

Storing carbon dioxide deep below the earth's surface could be a safe, long-term solution to one of the planet's major contributors to climate change. ...> Full Article