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Photograph of biogeochemist Jordon Hemingway collecting a sediment sample from the Thjórsá River in southern Iceland
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The Jail That Keeps Oxygen in the Air

Lucas Joel by L. Joel 25 July 201922 February 2022

Oxygen shouldn’t be in the air we breathe. But it is, and the reason why is almost criminal.

NASA visualization of dozens of eddies in the Atlantic Ocean
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What’s the True Shape of An Ocean Eddy?

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 25 July 201920 July 2022

Ocean eddies spin round and round, but not in a perfect circle.

Black-and-white photo of NASA flight director Christopher Kraft sitting at Mission Control desk
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Literal Buckets of Science and Other Things We Read This Week

by AGU 25 July 20193 April 2023

What Earth and space science stories are Eos staffers recommending this week?

Members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce stand behind a podium at a 23 July briefing where they announced they would pursue a goal of a 100% clean economy for the United States by 2050.
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House Committee Calls for Zero Greenhouse Gas Pollution by 2050

by Randy Showstack 24 July 20193 April 2023

Democrats on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce plan to introduce comprehensive legislation later this year to deal with climate change.

Painting of a winter landscape in Europe circa 1608 by Hendrick Avercamp
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The Little Ice Age Wasn’t Global, but Current Climate Change Is

Javier Barbuzano, Science Writer by Javier Barbuzano 24 July 20197 February 2022

None of the cold and warm epochs from the past 2,000 years were global events, but the current period of climate change is more intense and is happening simultaneously across the entire planet.

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Alexander R. “Mac” McBirney (1924–2019)

by D. Johnston, D. Geist, T. Morse and R. S. J. Sparks 24 July 201910 October 2021

This former West Point graduate and coffee grower transformed igneous petrology and volcanology.

Ship tracks (linear cloud features) seen over the Pacific Ocean.
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Algorithm Spots Climate-Altering Ship Tracks in Satellite Data

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 23 July 201918 October 2022

Tens of thousands of ship tracks—cloud structures created when ships’ exhaust plumes interact with the atmosphere—are pinpointed automatically, furthering study of these climate-altering features.

A small rowboat sits on the edge of Lake Sinclair, one of five lakes in north central New Brunswick surveyed for the new study on DDT contamination.
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The Toxic Legacy of DDT Lives On in Remote Canadian Lakes

Mary Caperton Morton, Science Writer by Mary Caperton Morton 23 July 20199 May 2022

DDT and its breakdown products permeate lake sediments decades after the pesticide was banned.

An instrument with many sampling tubes is pulled out of the ocean at Station ALOHA. The samples will be analyzed for nutrient content, microbial diversity, and metabolic activity.
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Far-Flung Dust Storms Deliver Nutrient Boosts to North Pacific

Mary Caperton Morton, Science Writer by Mary Caperton Morton 22 July 20191 February 2023

Barren marine deserts bloom seasonally with iron infusions from Asian dust storms.

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Nineteen Eighty-Forams

Lucas Joel by L. Joel 22 July 201910 February 2023

Facial recognition technology is helping researchers identify marine microorganisms.

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