AGU 2012: Latest Earth Science News

The disk of the Earth as seen by NASA satellite.

(Image credit: NASA)

The annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union, the largest meeting for geoscientists each year, is taking place this week (Dec. 3-7) in San Francisco, with lots of new findings in Earth science being announced.

OurAmazingPlanet and its sister sites, SPACE.com and LiveScience, are at the conference, covering the important, amazing and downright strange findings being presented. Below is a list of these discoveries we've covered so far – we'll be adding to it constantly throughout the meeting.

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