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July May Turn Out to Be the Hottest Month in Recorded History

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 9 August 201919 August 2022

If this year’s record-breaking trend continues, we’re on track for 2015–2019 to be the hottest 5 years on record.

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Rivers Are a Highway for Microplastics into the Ocean

Javier Barbuzano, Science Writer by Javier Barbuzano 9 August 20193 November 2021

New research shows that rivers are the main road for all the plastic pollution that gets into the ocean, including microplastics.

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What Wildfire Smoke Tells Us About Nuclear Winter

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 8 August 201928 February 2022

A cloud of smoke from 2017 Canadian wildfires was so huge that it self-lofted and stayed in the atmosphere for 8 months. Scientists used it as an example for climate simulations of nuclear warfare.

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Climate Change Pressures Land and Food Resources, Report Warns

by Randy Showstack 8 August 201919 August 2022

There is a window of time to act now before threats increase further and solutions become less effective, a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states.

A lineup of five Lego stormtroopers, one carrying a peace/love sign
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How Star Wars Won the Space Race and Other Things We’re Reading

by AGU 8 August 20193 April 2023

What Earth and space science stories are we recommending this week?

A photograph of a collapse scar bog near Fairbanks, Alaska
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The Permafrost Listeners

Lucas Joel by L. Joel 7 August 201928 July 2022

Geophysicists have discovered a way to monitor permafrost thaw by measuring seismic waves so gentle they don’t shake a thing.

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This Bridge Monitors the Environment and Harnesses Tidal Energy

Rachel Crowell, Science Writer by Rachel Crowell 7 August 20199 May 2022

The “smart” Memorial Bridge spanning the Piscataqua is outfitted with a tidal turbine and more than 40 sensors.

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New Tool Reveals That Soils Are Teeming with Active Microbes

Sarah Derouin, Science Writer by Sarah Derouin 6 August 201931 January 2023

BONCAT, a new type of amino acid tagging, highlights and categorizes active soil microbes in situ.

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Paleontologists Peer Inside Billion-Year-Old Cells

Hannah Thomasy, Science Writer by Hannah Thomasy 6 August 201922 February 2022

Scientists have discovered the fossilized remains of Precambrian cells extraordinarily preserved with the rare earth element phosphates monazite and xenotime.

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Ultrahot Exoplanet Bleeds Heavy Metals into Space

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 5 August 201931 October 2022

The planet is also shaped like a football (the American kind).

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