A team of dozens spent weeks in the Rwenzori Mountains capturing drone photography, GPS coordinates, and ground-penetrating radar data to document glacial retreat.
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Emissions from Coal-Fired Power Plants May Lower Crop Yields in India
Nitrogen dioxide may reduce wheat and rice crops by more than 10%, according to a new study.
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Asteroid Samples Suggest a Solar System of Ancient, Salty Incubators
The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early solar system.
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Impact Spewed Debris Away from the Moon’s South Pole
Two valleys extending away from a giant crater suggest that upcoming Artemis missions are more likely to sample ancient lunar terrain than impactor material.
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Cinturones polvorientos ofrecen una visión más clara de la formación de exoplanetas
Las observaciones en longitudes de onda milimétricas de polvo y guijarros en 74 sistemas estelares sugieren que las migraciones planetarias podrían ser más comunes de lo que pensábamos.
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Thriving Antarctic Ecosystem Revealed by a Departing Iceberg
A quick-calving iceberg gave scientists a rare glimpse into what hides beneath Antarctic ice.
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Brazil’s Rivers Are Leaking
Wells overpumping groundwater could be forcing rivers to seep underground, a new study shows. Regions with intensive irrigation activities are at the most risk.
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Researchers Put a Number on Animals’ Earth-Shaping Effects
Wild animals expend 76,000 gigajoules of energy—the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of monsoons or floods—shaping our planet’s terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems.
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Buried Sediments Point to an Ancient Ocean on Mars
Ground-penetrating radar data collected by the Zhurong rover reveal gently sloping sediments in Mars’s northern lowlands that hint at a shoreline.
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Wildfires Pose a Threat to Volcanic Soils in the Peruvian Andes
Fragile highland ecosystems showed low resilience to fire, which renders them more vulnerable to long-term degradation.