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Nathaniel Scharping

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Posted inResearch Spotlights

Compost and Biochar Could Boost Carbon Sequestration by Crushed Rock

by Nathaniel Scharping 22 April 202522 April 2025

Crushed rock additives may also help decrease soil emissions of other greenhouse gases, such as nitrous oxide and methane.

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Posted inResearch Spotlights

Isotopes Unearth History of Earthquakes in the Apennines

by Nathaniel Scharping 17 April 202517 April 2025

Dating of cosmogenic chlorine isotopes yields long-term estimates of fault activity in Italy, showing that periods of earthquakes and quiescence alternate over millennia.

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Posted inResearch Spotlights

Trust in Evanston Tap Water Depends on Gender, Race, and Past Experiences

by Nathaniel Scharping 17 March 202517 March 2025

Residents of the relatively high income Illinois city share why they trust the water in their taps—and others share why they stay away.

Smog and haze over Salt Lake City
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Higher Ozone Levels Tied to Heart Attack Risk

by Nathaniel Scharping 10 March 202510 March 2025

For young adults, air pollution may increase risks of some kinds of heart attacks more than others.

Earth’s North Pole surface covered in ice
Posted inNews

How Do You Make Earth into an Icehouse?

by Nathaniel Scharping 6 March 20256 March 2025

A new model accurately reconstructs Earth’s past icehouses and indicates there’s no one driver behind them.

Power lines covered in snow after a blizzard
Posted inNews

U.S. Power Grids are Vulnerable to Extreme Weather

by Nathaniel Scharping 21 February 202521 February 2025

Different kinds of severe weather, including multiple kinds at once, have different impacts on the grid in different places.

The summit of Mount Everest soars above other peaks of the Himalayas.
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How to Build the World’s Highest Mountain

by Nathaniel Scharping 13 February 202513 February 2025

The rocks of Mount Everest’s peak made an epic journey from seafloor to summit.

A ridge of broken ice within a sheet of sea ice
Posted inNews

Arctic Ice Is Getting Smoother and Moving Faster

by Nathaniel Scharping 4 February 20254 February 2025

A decrease in pressure ridges over the past 3 decades is making the ice more uniform, with unclear consequences.

China’s Yellow River flowing in a large valley
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Tracing Metals from Earth to Water to Life in the Yellow River

by Nathaniel Scharping 29 January 202529 January 2025

The mix of metals in China’s Yellow River stays relatively similar as it moves from the upper continental crust to biological life.

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Deep Beneath California’s Sierra Nevada, Earth’s Lithosphere May Be Peeling Away

by Nathaniel Scharping 17 January 202530 April 2025

Evidence for lithospheric foundering, or the process of denser material sinking into the mantle, is emerging.

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