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Ocean Vessels May Trigger Lightning Strikes

by Nathaniel Scharping 11 December 202311 December 2023

Previous research indicated aerosols in ship exhaust could enhance lightning. New research indicates the ships themselves may be to blame as well.

In this photograph of Jiang Co, a cloudy sky casts shadows over low hills in the background while the lake water, in the midground, features gray-blue-green tones. Spiky tufts of brown grass grow on the shores in the foreground, with dark angular cobbles studding reddish sand.
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Mammal Droppings Preserve Human and Climate History on the Tibetan Plateau

by Alka Tripathy-Lang 11 December 202327 September 2024

Geochemical signatures in sediment, which includes organic molecules from human and animal poop, help scientists track the rise and fall of the Tibetan Empire.

Carbonate gravels up to boulder size (with human scale) are scattered on the seaward side of the island. Mangroves were planted and propagated.
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A Philippine Island Detective Story

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 11 December 202311 December 2023

Researchers snorkeled, drilled, profiled, mapped, and interviewed to unlock clues to how an island was born.

On a flooded street in Lagos, a yellow vehicle’s wheels are submerged in water, and people walk around the water on a sidewalk.
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Sinking Cities and Rising Waters

by Leigh Dorsey 8 December 20238 December 2023

Climate-driven sea level rise combines with land subsidence in some of Africa’s fastest-growing cities.

A scientist wearing a safety vest and a blue hard hat squats alongside a stream, taking notes in a notebook. The stream cuts through a glacier covered in dark gray sediment.
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Microbe Goo Could Help Guide the Search for Life on Mars

by Grace van Deelen 8 December 20238 December 2023

Sticky substances secreted by microbes may help create landforms on Earth. And new research shows that these substances are more preserved in iron-rich sediment. Mars is decidedly iron-rich (it’s the Red Planet, after all), so the new study adds to evidence that microbe goo could help researchers explain landform creation there. “I think this is […]

A fluxbot, a small white box containing wires and a piece attached with duct tape. A solar panel is next to it.
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Affordable Robots Measure Soil Respiration

by Emily Dieckman 8 December 20238 December 2023

Measuring soil carbon flux, also known as soil respiration, can be expensive or time-consuming. A set of affordable robots that gather these data autonomously could especially benefit the Global South.

Luna de la Tierra
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La Luna es incluso más antigua de lo que los científicos pensaban

by Matt Hrodey 7 December 20237 December 2023

¿Cómo se formó la Luna y cuántos años tiene? La datación más precisa hasta el momento del satélite más grande de la Tierra determinó que es mucho más antigua de lo que se pensaba previamente.

A portion of a cream-colored planet covered with pale swirls and partially in shadow is shown against the blackness of space broken by pinpoints of light. A hazy atmosphere is visible around the planet.
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These Four Exoplanets Have Wild, Rocky Weather

by Elise Cutts 7 December 20237 December 2023

On many exoplanets, conditions are so exotic that minerals form clouds and fall as rain. Recent studies revealed the rocky weather on these four exoplanets in more detail than ever before.

Side view of the ocean surface.
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An Electrifying Approach to Carbon Capture

by Bill Morris 7 December 20237 December 2023

A new sodium-ion “battery” promises an environmentally friendly method of sequestering carbon in the ocean, but experts remain cautious.

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Eruption Now Unlikely Near Icelandic Town

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 6 December 20236 December 2023

Scientists and local authorities had been tracking the eruption’s precursors for weeks and evacuated residents. Then the magma stalled.

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