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Rebecca Owen

Two people wearing waders stand in a river holding orange trash bags. Between them is a cage flanked by two lines of buoys, which have funneled trash into the cage.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How North Carolina Trash Traps Could Help Inform Policy

by Rebecca Owen 11 September 202511 September 2025

Staff and volunteers at Waterkeepers collected and categorized more than 150,000 pieces of trash from the state’s waterways, the vast majority of which were plastic.

Dos personas se encuentran en un paisaje nevado, cerca de aguas heladas y glaciares, sosteniendo un poste negro que tiene aproximadamente el doble de su altura.
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¿Pueden los microorganismos prosperar en la atmósfera terrestre o simplemente sobreviven allí?

by Rebecca Owen 9 September 20259 September 2025

Un enfoque de modelización ascendente podría acercar a los científicos a la comprensión de las comunidades de microbios en la atmósfera.

A cluster of small, shiny red objects is attached to the roots of a plant.
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Nitrogen Needs Could Be Limiting Nature’s Carbon Capacity

by Rebecca Owen 25 August 202525 August 2025

A new study suggests that past calculations of biological nitrogen fixation were overestimated by up to 66%—and that farms growing nitrogen-fixing crops may be filling in the gaps, for better or worse.

卫星图像显示了一条辫状河。
Posted inResearch Spotlights

布拉马普特拉-贾木纳河的迁移并非无规律可循

by Rebecca Owen 12 August 202512 August 2025

辫状河流系统中的河道线可能比以前认为的更容易预测。

Two people stand in a snowy landscape near icy water and glaciers, holding up a black pole that is about twice as tall as them.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Can Microorganisms Thrive in Earth’s Atmosphere, or Do They Simply Survive There?

by Rebecca Owen 7 August 20259 September 2025

A bottom-up modeling approach could bring scientists closer to understanding communities of microbes in the atmosphere.

一个清澈的蓝色湖泊位于前景中广阔的干燥土地和背景中高耸的灰色山脉之间,山脉的底部覆盖着常绿的树木。
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地震如何改变湖泊微生物群落

by Rebecca Owen 6 August 20256 August 2025

提示:地震发生后,湖泊的地质、化学和生物成分会重新配置。一项新的研究深入探讨了地震变化对喜马拉雅地区措普湖的影响。

A clear blue lake lies between an expanse of dry dirt in the foreground and towering gray mountains whose lower reaches are covered in evergreen trees in the background.
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How Earthquakes Shake Up Microbial Lake Communities

by Rebecca Owen 24 July 20256 August 2025

After an earthquake, a lake’s geological, chemical, and biological components get reconfigured. A new study dives into the effects of seismic shifts on the Himalayas’ Lake Cuopu.

The pinkish-red Sun shines through a dense canopy of tree branches.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How Plants Respond to Scattered Sunlight

by Rebecca Owen 14 July 202514 July 2025

A new study investigates how diffuse light affects evapotranspiration and carbon uptake across forest, grassland, shrub, and agricultural areas.

Blue-and-white plastic bag on a beach
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Policy Success: Fees and Bans on Plastic Bags Reduce Beach Trash

by Rebecca Owen 14 July 202514 July 2025

Regardless of the patchwork of regulations aimed at limiting plastic bag use in the United States, new research indicates that such legislation does, indeed, limit the number of plastic bags found on beaches.

A satellite image of a braided river shows many channels branching out and reconnecting.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Coherent, Not Chaotic, Migration in the Brahmaputra-Jamuna River

by Rebecca Owen 2 July 202512 August 2025

The channel threads in braided river systems may be more predictable than previously thought.

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