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The Best Way to Kill Trees to Create Habitat

by Carolyn Wilke 1 March 20241 March 2024

Standing dead trees—or snags—shelter animals, store carbon, and cycle nutrients. A long-term monitoring study found that lopping off a tree’s top branches is a good way to turn it into a snag within about 20 years.

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Record-Breaking Temperatures Likely as El Niño Persists

by Grace van Deelen 29 February 202417 April 2024

Global surface air temperatures will likely remain high through early summer because of a continuing El Niño event.

Fishing boats drive through a channel near Dulac, Lousiana.
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Mapping Sinking Land for Tribal Resilience in Louisiana

by Grace van Deelen 29 February 202425 March 2024

The Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi Chitimacha Choctaw Tribe has been losing land to the sea, which could hamper efforts to gain federal recognition.

A person crouches with an outstretched arm atop a dried lake bed coated with white salt.
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Last Chance Lake Harbors the Highest Known Levels of Phosphate

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 29 February 202429 February 2024

Bodies of water such as this might have functioned as cradles of life, given their unique biogeochemistry.

An ancient Roman mosaic of Medusa from the Baths of Diocletian
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Roman Plagues Struck During Cool, Dry Periods

by Amy Mayer 28 February 20249 September 2024

Marine sediments from the Gulf of Taranto offer a high-resolution look at climate during ancient disease outbreaks.

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El Niño May Have Kicked Off Thwaites Glacier Retreat

by Grace van Deelen 26 February 202428 February 2024

Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” started losing mass midcentury, around the same time as its neighboring glacier.

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Antarctic Ice Cores Capture Heavy Metal Pollution—And History

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 26 February 202423 April 2024

An ice core record stretching back more than 2 millennia hints at the mining and metallurgy that waxed and waned with events such as wars and epidemics.

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Iceland’s Recent Eruptions Driven by Tectonic Stress

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 23 February 202423 February 2024

Magma flow in the magmatic dike near Grindavík was among the fastest recorded. The processes driving that flow could be at play at volcanoes in Hawaii, off the African coast, and anywhere crustal plates split apart.

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Commercial Lander Touches Down on Moon

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 22 February 20244 March 2024

The first Intuitive Machines lunar mission carries/carried six scientific payloads from NASA to contribute to the Artemis Program.

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Almost a Year in, Drought in the Amazon Is Far from Over

by Meghie Rodrigues 21 February 202422 October 2024

Strengthened by climate change, northern Brazil’s dry spell might last longer than originally fore-cast, with lingering ecological and economic consequences.

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