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Showing posts with label Earth Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Earth Science. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Amazon understory forests show short-term boost in CO₂ uptake – but this comes at a cost

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Open-top chamber for the Experiment in the Central Amazon. Photo Credit: © Dado Galdieri Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Geoengineering could protect Amazon rainforest from climate change

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Photo Credit:  Ivars Utināns Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) Geoengin...
Monday, April 20, 2026

Not all icebergs are equal – and that matters for the climate, new study finds

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Photo Credit: Courtesy of British Antarctic Survey Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Giant Icebergs and Clima...
Saturday, April 18, 2026

Ancient poo reveals uncertain future for Antarctic seabirds

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The guano, or poo, of nesting birds has given researchers clues to the history of these sentinel seabirds.  Photo Credit: Angela Gallego-Sal...

Andes volcanoes – the missing link between algae blooms, whales and climate millions of years ago

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Researchers work in the field at Cerro Ballena near Caldera, Chile, as part of a study showing that an increase in volcanic activity in the ...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

Palaeontologists Discover New Long-Necked Dinosaur in Patagonia

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Bicharracosaurus vertebrae being prepared at the Egidio Feruglio Paleontological Museum in Trelew, Argentina Photo Credit: © Amalia Villafañ...

Warmer winters and snow drought may threaten western U.S. water by speeding flows

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Naches River Photo Credit: Courtesy of Oregon State University Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Climate-Driv...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Planets need more water to support life than scientists previously thought

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This image of Venus taken by NASA’s Mariner 10 spacecraft (left) is paired with an artist’s depiction of three possible atmospheres on a rec...

Ocean eddies are amplifying climate extremes in coastal seas

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Agulhas ocean currents on Feb 11, 2018 from OSCAR v2.0, Image Credit: NASA JPL, generated by Earth and Space Research, and visualized by ear...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Super Magma Reservoirs Discovered Beneath Tuscany

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Renowned for its geothermal activity (here, the Larderello power plant, the oldest in the world), Tuscany also hides vast magma reservoirs b...
Monday, April 13, 2026

Sulfur reshapes interior evolution and crust formation on Mercury

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Yishen Zhang. Photo Credit: Jared Jones/Rice University Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Sulfur-Driven Magma...
Thursday, April 9, 2026

Hidden ocean feedback loop could accelerate climate change

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METHANE IN MOTION: Warming surface waters and reduced mixing in the ocean can limit nutrients like phosphate, creating conditions that allow...

Non-producing oil and gas wells emit microbial methane at rates 1,000 times higher than previously estimated

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Mary Kang and Gianni V. R. Micucci Photo Credit: Mary Kang Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Microbial Methan...

Early humans in South Africa were quarrying stone as long as 220,000 years ago

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Panoramic view of the Jojosi site. Clearly visible are gullies formed by erosion, where stone artifacts were observed on the surface during ...

Ancient tectonic processes the key to locating rare minerals

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Ancient Tectonic Subduction and Rare Ear...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Getting a glimpse of viral dances in the dark in the Sargasso Sea

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Water samples were collected from the surface and in an area called the deep chlorophyll maximum near Bermuda in the Atlantic Ocean. Photo C...

A New Way to Eavesdrop on Ocean Temperature in the Arctic

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An acoustic sound source manufactured at the Marine Science Development Center for Scripps researcher Matthew Dzieciuch being deployed in th...

Climate change may produce “fast-food” phytoplankton

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As sea surface temperatures rise over the next century, phytoplankton in polar regions will adapt to be less rich in proteins, heavier in ca...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

Agroseismology: In-Depth Description

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Agroseismology is an emerging interdisciplinary scientific field that applies seismological techniques and geophysical monitoring tools to a...
Friday, March 27, 2026

Water, Water Everywhere – But How to Find It?

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Photo Credit:  David Clode Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Optical Earth Observation for Surface Water Dete...