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A color mosaic close-up of the pockmarked surface of a crescent Moon
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Moon May Hold Billions of Tons of Subterranean Ice at Its Poles

by J. Pinson 20 November 202028 January 2022

By modeling over 4 billion years of the Moon’s impact history, scientists estimate that the lunar poles may harbor billions of metric tons of subsurface ice.

Frost covers branches on trees lining a field in Oulu, Finland.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Predicting the Next Big Frost Quake

by J. Pinson 30 October 202016 February 2022

Frost quakes occur in boreal regions when rapidly expanding ice underground causes frozen soils to fracture. A recent frost quake in Finland has given scientists a rare look into how they form.

View of a tidal marsh in Barnstable Harbor, Mass.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Rising Seas and Agriculture Created Wetlands Along the U.S. East Coast

by J. Pinson 23 October 20202 November 2021

Most of the tidal marshes along the eastern coast of the United States formed within the past 6,000 years due to a combination of slowly rising seas and European colonization.

Old Faithful geyser erupts in Yellowstone National Park
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Megadrought Caused Yellowstone’s Old Faithful to Run Dry

by J. Pinson 16 October 202014 February 2023

Scientists studying wood samples preserved by Old Faithful have determined that the famous geyser was dormant for several decades during the 13th century due to a megadrought.

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