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Bill Morris

A cave with white stalagmites and stalactites.
Posted inNews

Cave Deposit Links Greenland’s and Europe’s Climate Records with a German Volcano

by Bill Morris 21 February 202521 February 2025

Dating a late Pleistocene eruption has big implications for understanding the Younger Dryas—and current climate change.

Una foto desenfocada de personas con trajes naranjas trabajando junto a vegetación en llamas.
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¿Seis mil años de quema controlada arruinados?

by Bill Morris 20 February 202524 February 2025

Al alterar prácticas milenarias de gestión del fuego, la colonización creó una situación mortal en los bosques australianos, pero aún no se sabe hasta qué punto se extendió la “quema cultural”.

An out-of-focus photo of people in orange suits working next to vegetation on fire
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Six Thousand Years of Controlled Burning, Up in Smoke?

by Bill Morris 3 January 20257 January 2025

By disrupting millennia-old fire management practices, colonization created a deadly situation in Australian forests, but the jury is out on just how widespread “cultural burning” was.

Orange and yellow lava shoots out of a black mound.
Posted inNews

Hot Spot Lavas Around the World May Have Something in Common

by Bill Morris 23 October 202423 October 2024

A global study of lavas from volcanic hot spots suggests that contrary to accepted wisdom, Earth’s deep mantle may have the same composition throughout. Not everyone is convinced, however.

A submersible dredges sediment from the seafloor.
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Balancing the Deep Ocean Plastics Budget

by Bill Morris 1 May 20241 May 2024

Up to 11 million metric tons of plastic are sitting on the seafloor, mostly near coasts and shipping corridors.

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The Crocodile Dundee Site Helping Rewrite the History of Australian Bushfires

by Bill Morris 4 April 20244 April 2024

A lake made famous by Hollywood has yielded powerful new evidence that humans have conducted controlled burns on the Red Continent for tens of thousands of years.

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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A Not-So-Hoppy Future for Beer Drinkers?

by Bill Morris 20 November 202320 November 2023

New research examining the impact of climate change on hops production has brewed up a storm.

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Digitally Preserving Svalbard’s Fragile Geology

by Bill Morris 18 October 202318 October 2023

A team of researchers is making the iconic rock outcrops of Svalbard available to the world through an open-source database of virtual geological models.

Three soil blocks from a subice core taken in Camp Century, Greenland
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Greenland Was Much Greener 416,000 Years Ago

by Bill Morris 31 August 20238 September 2023

A fresh analysis of a historic ice core has revealed evidence of a much smaller ice cap.

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